Back in November Mr. Salsich’s class learned about South American rainforests. We turned our classroom into a rainforest and gave tours to students and parents. You can check out our “virtual video tours” here. * The tours raised $235 to protect rainforests in Belize through the Rainforest Alliance. Last month we received our certificate showing [...]

Yesterday Mr. Salsich’s class went through the whole day without using any paper! We joined the Teach Paperless Earth Day project along with our friends from Mrs. Yollis’ class, 2KM and 2KJ from Australia, and 1,500 other classrooms that all taught without paper for Earth Day. (We did our paperless day on April 21 because [...]

In science we are starting to learn about rocks and minerals. To get us started, our friend Mr. Dewire from “Nature Scapes” visited our class to share some cool rocks with us. Properties of Rocks Mr. Dewire told us that there are six properties that we can use to tell rocks apart. Remember, we already [...]