5th and 6th D.C./N.Y.C. Trip

For 5 exciting days we toured Washington D.C. and New York. We had a blast, seeing first hand, about what we have been studying in class. Here are a couple of pictures to show our wonderful experiences:

THE WHITE HOUSE

Day one:  Excited !!!  Leaving on the bus 

On the plane:)  

Ford Theater:  Where Lincoln was assassinated.

Frank-o our tour guide for the entire Washington D.C. trip was interesting and informative :)

Air & Space Museum

Arlington National Cemetary

From Lafayette:  Boxer Joe Lewis is buried there.

Changing of the Guards 

Lincoln Memorial

Iwo Jima

MLKing Jr. Memorial

National Cathedral

WWII Memorial

Picture trick with the Washington Monument :) :) 

Capitol Building

FDR Memorial 

FDR Food line memorial (supposed to look sad )

National Archives:  Declaration of Independence ....We saw it :)``

Washington Monument:  555 feet we rode to the top :)

Mount Vernon Tour

George Washington's House 

National History Museum

Muhammad's Gloves in the American History Museum

NY: Top of the Rockefeller Center

Overlooking Central Park!

Aladdin:  Broadway show we saw.  We gave it a 10 out of 10.  (see the 2015 Ball?)

Time Square

 NY selfie

Taking the subway

The BULL

Took a Ferry to the Ellis Island and saw this Lady Liberty.

At the airport ...going home...was a great trip!!

5th grade starts Washington D.C. Unit

5th graders learned their way around Washington D.C. by constructing a map of all the monuments and memorials. 

 

Chambers County Dive Team Visits 4th grade:)

3rd grade learns about Rube Goldberg

Rube Goldberg was an inventor who invented some pretty strange designs like the one pictured below:

 

We practiced making some of own:

4th grade's Paper Mache Fish

Student had to pick a fish and research it.  They had to learn about their chosen fish and draw the fish and fin placement for their paper mache.  

Next we add newspaper and white paper with a flour and water mixture.

Next we paint, capturing the likeness of our fish.