Today, Mrs. Sheads' 5th graders showed convergent boundaries, and made mountains using graham crackers to represent land plates, and icing as the mantle. It was a sweet success!
Mrs. Bridges' 1st graders worked with Mrs. Marini today to experiment with red, yellow, and blue to make new colors!
AGR 5th Grade ACE students working with Mrs. Marini are on the next step of their Food Truck project - creating an advertisement via Google Sites. This meant Mr. Ortman came in to discuss components of building a Google site. Hustle and Heart set us apart!
AGR 3rd Graders in Ms. Ciccarone's class (followed soon by all 3rd Grade classes) worked collaboratively at a math review breakout, solving clues in rounding, patterns, and subtraction. All teams were successful in the timed activity. Great job Bulldogs!
Each student in Mrs. Sheads' 5th Grade class got a name badge with a specific place that they had to round their decimal to. They had to introduce themselves, and ask their new friend to round their 5 digit number to the specific place and then trade numbers. Great job!!
Students in Mr. Hallett’s class worked collaboratively to review benchmark 1 skills. Give these problems a try and see if “you’re smarter than a 5th grader!”
Today, Mrs. McFarland's 1st Graders visited Mrs. Marini’s room to work on mixing colors. Meanwhile. Mrs. Boldridge's students found buried treasure on the playground!
In case you missed it, here's the October lunch menu for elementary and middle schools.
Some of Mrs. Birch's 4th graders successfully tested their egg drop designs today - the true test from the 10 foot ladder is next, before our final drop from the CCPS bucket truck in November. This activity is also being done by Mr. Hallett's 5th graders.
At our book fair last Thursday, this Barbie got lost looking at all the amazing books. Despite her smile, she has been desperately looking for her owner.
If your child lost their Barbie, please call the office to pick her up.
Todays robo call.
Remember to contact the school if you do not receive weekly calls or emails (540) 825-0616.
Due to potential impacts from the impending tropical storm, all CCPS activities scheduled for Saturday, September 23, 2023 and Sunday, September 24, 2023 will be canceled.
Friday night activities will continue as scheduled.
Mrs. Sheads' fifth grade class created a (very tasty) layers of the Earth activity today. H
ustle and heart set us apart!
Ms. McAllister's students who have families from other countries worked on video recordings for Hispanic heritage month to show on our morning announcements. Great job bulldogs!
Math center Friday! Students in Mrs. Bridges' 1st grade class played games to help recognize numbers and work on addition. Hustle and heart set us apart!
Many thanks to Weis Markets, and our families who shop there and mention AGR. Today, a donation of $250 was received from Weis to help with school supplies to support learning at AGR. Thank you Weis!
2nd Grade student across all elementary schools were visited by ITRTs to learn coding over the past two days. BeeBots were used to code to place values. In these pictures, Mrs. Robson's students showed their mastery and amazing collaboration. Great job!
Just a reminder - tomorrow night is Back to School Night from 5:30-6:30! While here, please be sure to set aside time to shop at our Book Fair in the library, which ends on Friday. See you there!
Students in Mrs. McFarland's 1st Grade class played rounds of toss the chips to create addition number sentences. Some quotes: "all of them are 6", "we already did that one", we got 3 reds and 3 whites", "I got 4 and 4 and Layla got 4 and 4", & "there are no white". Great job!
After counting 414 beans by tens and ones and practicing 10 or 100 more/less, students in Ms. Jenkins 2nd grade class played a STEM game that included counting, weight, strategy, and a whole lot of fun!
