Sabre Yacht Field Trip

Friday was a very exciting field trip day!  We heading for Sabre Yachts early in the day and got back at lunch time.  We had the opportunity to see the boats in the making from beginning to end.  While we waited for the tour, as we needed to go in small groups, we were able to do different stations in their lunch room.  The stations consisted of snack, making thank you cards for Sabre Yachts, and 2 read aloud books that had to do with engineering.  Here are a few pictures of our experience that day!

We made it, welcome to Sabre Yachts

Working to make thank you cards

Seeing a finished boat 

Learning about why their is a stripe on the boats

Our safety gear on as we walk through 

Being taught about how the boats are assembled

In the cafeteria getting directions

Making more thank you cards!
We had a great trip!

June - End of School

There is so much that will happen in these last few weeks of school, and I wouldn't want anyone to miss out on the fun!!  Here are some important dates as we finish out the school year.

May 26th  - Pride in our school day (please join us for lunch at 12:00 tomorrow!)

May 28th -  Fine Arts Festival at LRHS; 6:00-7:00

May 29th - Learning Lane Sabre Yachts field trip

June 15th - 1st Grade ocean field trip

June 18th - Field Day (Please remember to wear sneakers and sunscreen)

June 22nd - Last day of school (report cards will come home)

Boat Building

Last year Learning Lane did an egg drop STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering, and Math) project.  The students were so very excited that the teachers wanted to provide a similar experience for them this year!  Instead of the egg holder, we decided we would have students build their own boat out of random materials.  Students in Learning Lane were first placed in multi age groups of 5-6 students.  Each student from the team picked an item from the pile of items. Students then met in one of the 6 classrooms on Learning Lane to construct their boats.  Teachers in the room did not help the students, they were just there to ask questions and monitor the work being done.  Teams were to work collaboratively, including everyone on the team, to create a boat that not only would float, but that would hold some weight.  Once the team thought their boat was ready to float the tried the boat on a practice round in a tub of water.  If their boat had any issues they had time to fix it to make it work better.

The next week we did a huge Learning Lane experience.  We had all the teams bring their boats out to try in big tubs of water and add pennies for weight.  Lots of teams had great success with their boats, and a number of them were able to hold approximately 240 pennies.

The next week we were privileged to have a parent of a student from Learning Lane come in to talk to us about how boats work and the history of boats.

At the end of the presentation we let the students know that we were going to go see an actual boat making company.  Another one of our student's parents works at Sabre Yachts, and we are very excited to be able to go and take a tour of how a boat is made.  We will be going on this field trip Friday, May 29th.  Please make sure to return you permission slips before that day.

Listening intently to the special guest speaker

Our guest sharing about boats

                               

Working together to create

Lots of creativity 

                       

Our Learning Lane meeting, Ms. Johnson sharing some of the building items

Items to pick from

What to pick?

Discussing how to start

Trying to figure out the best plan

Just the beginning stages

Plants!!

In May one or our science units has been plants.  We have learned all about the plant life cycle, the parts of a plant, and what a plant needs to survive.  During this unit we even were able to plant our own flowers.  Some of us had more success then others, but it was still exciting to see seeds sprout into seedlings.

Painting our flower pots

Artists at work

Adding details to our pots

Very proud of our work!

Ready for seeds!

Diabetes Walk

Friday we concluded our fundraiser for Juvenile Diabetes.  Everyone together was able to raise over $4000!  At the end of the day on Friday the entire school went to the field and walked together for a cure against Juvenile Diabetes.  If you would like to read for about this disease please go to http://jdrf.org/.  Here are a few pictures of our JDRF walk.