4th grade: Visits West Point Lake Floating Classroom

West Point Lake Floating Classroom 

The new West Point Lake Floating Classroom  has dramatically expanded the reach of CRK’s floating classroom program.  Educators onboard theMiss Sally – a custom-built 42-foot vessel – will engage students of all ages in a variety of hands-on activities that highlight the challenges facing the Chattahoochee River, a source of drinking water and recreation for millions of people in Georgia and Alabama.

4th grade CCATS group at the lake.

 All buckled in and ready to ride!

Had to take a selfie with these two ;)

As we sail along the river we hear many cool facts about water conservation.

Our very spacious pontoon boat 

We are measuring the Turbidity of the lake water.

Our guide demonstrates measuring Turbidity

Testing lake water with chemicals.  Is the pH level safe?

Activity on how much water is on the planet

Activity to show how Riparian Buffer helps our lakes.

This activity demonstrates how our water treatment plant cleans our lake water.

Which water treatment plant did the best? Which water is the cleanest?  

Super fun lakeology game (kinda like Jeopardy)

3rd: Point University Trip

3rd grade visited Point University to test out some fun learning centers today!  They got to experience making music, dramatic play, and creative art projects.  Check out these pics:

On the bus :)

Dr. Southerland from Point University explains the learning stations.

Musical Chairs with a kick!

Police Role Play

Musical Instruments with a spoon :)

Rhythm with tennis balls

Creative art. 

Police Role play

Creative Collage

3rd grade CCATS group.
We had a blast!!

4th grade: Ocean Currents

Not only fun, but tons of learning singing along with this Ocean Currents song.  The students starting sitting down, but then had to stand because this song requires some dancing also :)

3rd grade Inventions: ICECREAM

Third graders learned about how ice cream (among other inventions) was invented and then put together a recipe of their own.  All we can say is "YUM!  I scream you scream we all scream for icecream"  We are glad this was invented :)

Cups Challenge

The 4th graders really had to practice working as a team for this challenge.  Can you build a tower of cups and not touch the cups at all?  Teams of 3 works together by only using strings and rubber bands to build a tall tower of cups. 

The girls did it!

The boys are going for the extra layer!

KWL: Oceans
We know a lot of prior knowledge on oceans, but just wait until the end of the year...We will be experts.

Inventive Problem Solving

Inventions are all around us.....some small, some big.  Each one usually starts with a problem to solve. After our introduction lesson to inventions, we tested out a edible invention. yum, yum...

Story Problem: When K-4 students were continually caught eating play dough, their teacher came up with an invention to help:  EDIBLE PLAY DOUGH!  So now the K-4 students can play and eat their play dough at the same time.  

EDIBLE PEANUT BUTTER PLAY DOUGH
18 oz. jar peanut butter Add Powered Sugar until the peanut butter is not sticky. Mix all ingredients. Let children roll out with rolling pin, cut with cookie cutters and eat!

3rd graders carefully following the recipe

Do you wanna build a snowman?  

Pancake time

School Theme: Racing to Success!

Our Eastside hall is ready for CCATS students.  See you soon and ...

LETS RACE TO SUCCESS !!!