Friday, October 10, 2008

Plumpy'nut to the Resue


Fourth Graders at Nantucket Elementary School wanted to do something to raise awareness and money for Plumpy'nut. Students researched, wrote a script, created a storyboard, shot the movie, edited, recorded the music and shared it with their parents. We hope you enjoy this movie and donate to a good cause.

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Wednesday, September 10, 2008

Computer Lab: Internet Safety For Kids

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Welcome back! First things first; what's more important than being safe on the web? Check out your 'web-smarts' here. We are also learning how to use the new Dell computers which use Vista, Microsoft's latest operating system.

Tuesday, April 29, 2008

Example of Fifth Grader's Art Work


Fifth Graders Use Photoshop in Art Class


Miss Olszewski's fifth grade art class is combining digital photographs with original art work using Adobe's Photoshop. Be sure to visit the Nantucket Elementary School's Junior Artists annual art show. The opening and reception is Thursday, May 1 at 3:00 PM to 6:00 PM. The show runs from May 1 through May 7th. For further information please call 508-228-0294

Friday, April 18, 2008

Fourth Graders Present the Solar System


As part of the fourth grade science curriculum, fourth graders research one planet of our solar system and create a PowerPoint presentation. They answer questions like 'what is Uranus made of ?' what makes Uranus unique? and could we live on Uranus?' The presentation includes 'in text citations' as well as a 'Works Cited' slide. In preperation for this project students studied all eight regular planets and Pluto. They also studied the three dwarf planets.

Monday, March 17, 2008

Kindergarteners Shape Their World


Using Shapes and Building Blocks software, from the Terc Math Investigation Curriculum, kindergartners rotate, move, duplicate, paste, erase, and explore the properties of basic two dimensional shapes. Kindergartners know that a diamond is also called a 'rhombus'. They can also identify a hexagon, square, trapezoid, triangle, and a rectangle.