Weather Brought to You by Grade One!

In conjunction with the first grade science weather unit being taught  the teachers,  the students created a Haiku Deck of weather words. They practiced reading, defining and finally identifying pictures relating to weather.  What a beautiful job the students did!!

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Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Created with Haiku Deck, presentation software that inspires

Not Blogs, GLOGS!

The fourth grade teachers created a science integrated technology unit for teaching the types of rocks to their students.  The students used Glogster to demonstrate their knowledge.  Glogster is an interactive tool that allows users to create virtual posters combining text, audio, video, images, and hyperlinks.
Take a scroll through these Glogs - amazing work by the entire fourth grade!

USA Collages by the Second Grade

The second graders are studying landmarks and symbols of our country in their classrooms for Social Studies.  Using the app, Pic Collage, they made these amazing posters of sixteen pictures representing the USA to reinforce what their teachers were teaching.  Interesting note - we started this project before the Thanksgiving holidays and afterward, they could identify each and every picture!  Impressive learning and creating!!  We may have some future graphic designers among the second grade.

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Center School Sightings Newscast!

This CSS update features the fifth grade math game night organized by Mrs. Baron and the fifth grade teachers as well as Mrs. Serafino's second graders social studies Thanksgiving Museum.  There are so many terrific things going on at Center School and we thank our amazing parents for being so incredibly supportive!

To see all of our newscasts, check out our website: Center School Sightings

Landforms by Fourth Grade

As the fourth grade learn their landforms, with their teachers in social studies class, they create a PicCollage of pictures and definitions to aid their study in class.  Some chose to put the landform name on the poster, some are going to make you guess!  Good luck!

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CSS Special Report - Mystery Reader Comes to Kindergarten!

Kira's Dad, Nolan Pratt, a two time Stanley Cup winning hockey player, comes to Mrs.  Palazzi's class with Screech, the Springfield Falcons Mascot.  What an exciting day for the kindergarteners!  Mr. Pratt, who now coaches with the Falcons, read the book, The Magic Hockey Stick by Peter Maloney and Felicia Zekauskas.  Then Screech passed out goodies to the children and led a chant for his team!
Our own CSS videographer, Daly, was live on the scene to catch all of the action!  She produced the entire segment herself.  Way to go Daly and thank you Mrs. Palazzi, Mr. Pratt, and all of the kindergarteners for inviting us!

All CSS episodes can be found on our website: Center School Sightings

Fifth Grade Narratives Go to the Next Level!

The fifth graders are writing fictional narratives in English language arts class, incorporating the science concepts they learned during their field trip to the Meadows.  In technology, they are working on their writing and learning how to create glossaries and diagrams using various Google apps in their accounts.  What an incredible job they are doing adding to their stories!                            ~Please click to enlarge