Pre-K Curriculum and Instruction - 2014- 2017

Pre K Learning About Animals -May 2014

Pre-K students learned about animals and played a number game using animal pictures.

Pre-K students looking at animal books.

Pre-K Healthy Sign Project - January 2015

Pre-K students made healthy sign posters to demonstrate to cough and sneeze into your elbow to stop the spread of germs. They also made posters about washing their hands.

Pre-K- Fall Walk Reflections - October 2016

The Pre-K students went on a fall nature walk. There observances and investigations were written down and they made fall leaf stampings.

Pre- K - Reusing a Plastic Water Bottle Mobile and Game Project -April 2017

These pre-k students used plastic water bottles and made a mobile out of them. One student played a bowling game with them.

Kindergartner writings of what they learned on the farm

Kindergarten Health Fair - February 5, 2015

Our Kindergarten students learned nutrition, fitness, dental health, and general hygiene. They rotated to each room that held guest invited to teach our students about their health.

Posters made for Kindergarten Health Fair.

Students learning about germs and how to wash your hands.

Kindergarten Garden Musical Play - June 2015

Our kindergarten students performed a garden musical play for their parents. This play went along with their garden unit.

Kindergarten students making garden posters for their garden unit. June 2015

Kindergarten at Sharp Farm- October 14. 2016

Our kindergartens enjoyed themselves at Sharp Farm by visiting farm animals, riding on a hayride and picking pumpkins to take home.

Kindergarten writings of what they learned at the farm.

Kindergarten Animal Habitat project- May 26, 2017

Kindergarten students used ipads using Pebble Go ( a Language Arts App) to research , write about, and design their animals they chose. They used recycled materials to make their project.

1st gr. Curriculum and Instruction- 2014-2017

1st grade planting flowers - June 2014

The first graders made flower posters describing the parts of the flower and they also planted flowers in cups.

1st grade Nature Hunt - April 28, 2015

The 1st grade students went on a nature hunt at the outdoor learning center to find living and non- living things. Then they documented what they found.

1st Grade School Yard Survey - May 2015

The 1st grade students conducted a school yard survey to determine what might be wrong and how problems can be solved.

Students in outdoor learning center observing schoolyard problems below.

Student documentation of their observances for schoolyard problems.

Students learning about snakes and touching snake skin in the classroom.

1st grade student writings of what they learned and liked at Robinson Nature Center.

1st grade planting seeds - October 2016

These 1st grade students planted bean seeds in CD cases. They were placed in the sunlight to grow. After they started growing, the students were able to label the important parts of the plant on the CD case.

Toilet Paper Tube planting - May 2015

Our 2nd grade students in Mrs. Braswell's class planted plants in toilet paper tubes. They were then placed in pastic cups to give to their mothers for Mother's Day.

Zoo Mobile visit from the Maryland Zoo - January 18, 2016

Our 2nd grade students were able to see zoo animals from the Maryland Zoo. They were able to ask questions about the animals during the interactive presentation. The zoo mobile volunteers talked about the different habitat on our continent and what animals live there.

2nd grade student writings of what they learned and liked from the Maryland Zoo Mobile visit.

2nd grade Butterfly Release - May 2, 2016

The 2nd grade students had been learning about the Pink Lady butterflies in their butterfly unit. They released the butterflies in the outdoor learning center.

2nd grade Butterfly Release- May 16, 2017

Our 2nd grade students released the Pink Lady butterflies after learning about them in their butterfly unit. They recorded their observances as they were being released.

3rd Grade Curriculum and Instruction 2014-2017

3rd grade Field Trip to Sharp Farm - October, 2015

The 3rd graders went to Sharp Farm. They were able to see animals, ride on a hayride, pick corn, run in a maze and pick a pumpkin.

3rd grade Monarch Butterfly Observations - June 2015

The 3rd graders were able to watch some of the Monarch caterpillars grow. The caterpillars did not make it to the chrysalis stage. Not enough data could be taken.

3rd grade - Newsletter to Protect the Wildlife - April 2015

There were 4 students in Ms. Leach's class who wrote a letter to the 3rd grade parents and GES staff advocating for the protection of wildlife.

3rd grade Field Trip to Robinson Nature Center May 11, 2016

The 3rd grade students went on a field trip to explore Robinson Nature Center. They went on a hike and visited the planetarium.

3rd grade student writing of what they learned and liked at Robinson Nature Center.

4th Grade Curriculum and Instruction- (2014-2017)

4th Grade Days of Taste Field Trip- May 13, 2014

The 4th grade students had a 3 day field trip with Days of Taste to Gorman Farm.

Electronic documentation of what the students learned on the farm.

4th grade Field Trip on Days of Taste - May 2016

Composting on Days of Taste

4th grade Field Trip to Washington D.C. Zoo - May 26, 2016

Our 4th grade students went on a field trip to the national zoo. They wrote about their opinions on whether animals should be held captive or allowed to roam free.

4th grade - Science Lesson with Solar Energy- Oct. 2017

The 4th grade students learned about the heating of the sun on objects (solar beads and solar paper). They made solar bead necklaces and watched them change from white to colored beads and made an art project from solar paper that used the energy of the sun to create designs from shapes and letters.

4th grade students (est. 25) making solar bracelets.

Students used letters and shapes to make a design on the solar paper using the sun's energy.

*4th grade - Windmill Power Project - Nov. 2017

The 4th grade students in Ms. Shultz's class designed windmills to harness wind to lift washers in a cup. The stronger the blades the more it could lift. They learned how wind can be used to help make energy.

Students designs of their windmill blades and how their design was doing in the attempts of lifting the cup of washers.

5th Grade Curriculum and Instruction - (2014- 2017)

Science Lesson with Calculating Speed - June 2014

The 5th grade students in Mrs. Hill 's class was learning about how long it would take to go a certain distance. They used a stop watch to time their speed and the backyard school yard for running. The lesson was called "On Your Mark".

Documentation of their results and calculations.

*5th grade Watershed Project - Spring 2016

5th grade Students (est. 30 in a class) worked on tin foil trays to make a watershed to demonstrate the affects of pollutants in our watershed of the Chesapeake Bay.

Students made a tray of pollutants such as coffee, tea, kool-aid. Sponges were the fish. Aluminum foil was the terrain of the watershed.

Students sprayed water on the pollutants to see how the water is affected by all the moving particles of pollutants.

*5th grade - Geosphere Construction Project- Oct. 2017

5th grade students (est. 28) in Mrs. Pruette's Class completed a journal entry after they constructed their geosphere's in the outdoor learning center.

*5th grade - Terrariums Project Oct. 2017

Our 5th grade students made terrariums in plastic bottles that will last all school year for them to observe of its closed environment.

Related Arts Curriculum and Instruction- (2014-2017)

Music -May, 2014

Mrs. Jackie Cousins directed the 5th graders to play rhythms on different instruments for a feeling of being in a Louisiana Bayou she had recently visited.

Music - April 26, 2016

This is a song played by advanced band members called "Band Junk" for recycling and Earth Day. The band is directed by Mrs. Charlene McDaniel.

Technology - First Grade Digital Microscope Projects - May 2017

Mr. Timothy Incavido's first grade technology students were able to use the digital microscope to look at Cicadas collected on the trees and grounds in front of the school. They used the digital microscope to get a closer look on their laptops. They also looked at plants and things collected on a short nature walk from the outdoor learning center.

1st grade students looking at Cicadas in the digital microscopes .

1st grade students looking at their nature findings such as leaves and acorns from a nature walk in their digital microscopes.