Science Fair Fun!

Congratulations fourth and fifth graders!  You completed your first science fair!  I am so proud of your scientific thinking and presentation skills.  Way to go!

Best Overall: Michael Hawkins Alexandre

Best Presentation: a tie between Pierce Jackson and Collin Barber

Most Scientific: Rohan Davidi

Most innovative: a tie between River Frazier and Max Bussey/Drew Cashin

Most Helpful to Others: Lainie Henry and Anabelle Peoples

Green Team Go!

Way to go Green Team!  My fourth and fifth grade students recycle hundreds of pounds of paper, metal, glass, and plastic each month for the students, faculty, and staff of Gilchrist.  What a difference you make!

Bubble Popping and Apple Dunking!

 My fourth grade students were POPPING with ideas during our bubble gum experiment!

 They tested bubble sizes and stretchability between two brands of gum.

There wasn't a bad apple in the bunch in our fifth grade class while we experimented with apples.  We also dissected apples with our 3rd grade science buddies!

It's a Mystery!

Today we used our sense of touch to observe a variety of items in some mystery bags.  The students did a great job using their skills to decide what these six bags contained.  We got to see that scientist can't always use all of their senses to draw conclusions.  It was frustrating at times the mini scientists said, but also a lot of fun!

Calling all mad scientists!

Do you love experiments?  Making things pop?  Testing the limits?  We'll you might just be a mad scientist! I'm super excited to be teaching our fourth and fifth grade Creative Academics students this year for their enrichment class.  Our first unit in both grades will be Science in Action.  Enrichment classes will start on August 21st for fourth graders and August 23rd for fifth graders. 

Thomas went zipping away!

Thomas and his family snuck out of Shands for a bit this past weekend to celebrate Mother's Day! Little did the nursing staff know, they went zip lining!!! What a great example they are of living life to the fullest! We hope that Mrs. Tillman and all our moms had a great day with your families! We appreciate you all! Way to go Thomas, you're our SUPERHERO!

The boys enjoyed their day...