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We want to celebrate the results from our iReady assessment students took in January. Data shows that there was an overall improvement for Math and ELA from Fall to Winter scores. Great job Laurin students! Keep up your hard work!

School-wide Advisory

Kindness & Caring is our monthly theme for February. Students are encouraged to demonstrate kindness by giving a “shout-out” to students and teachers on campus. If you’d like to compliment or encourage your child through a “shout-out”, contact Ms. Coy in the office at coy.sandra@battlegroundps.org.

Resilience was the theme for January. Students painted a rock that will be placed in LOLA (Laurin Outdoor Learning Area). Next time you’re on campus, have your student take you out to the school garden to see their rock!

Laurin Learning

5th Grade

Mrs. Flach’s Class Students in Science have learned about the needs of seeds and plants. They have learned that organisms have preferred environments. In Reading students have worked on sequencing, compare and contrast, and currently cause and effect skills. In History students completed group projects on explorers, are working on presentation and audience listening skills, learned about the reasons immigrants

left Europe and established the 13 colonies and how they prospered. We look forward to learning about water tolerance of plants, food webs, state projects and more.

Mr. Tetz’s Class

In math, classes have been working on group projects. Each group is becoming experts on, and then teaching some aspect of fractions to the rest of the class, using games, slides, quizzes, and more.

Mrs. Murphy’s Class We wrapped up our decimal multiplication unit with a whiteboard challenge and will be moving into dividing decimals. In history students conducted research and are now in the process of creating a poster highlighting their explorer’s impacts and voyages. Students will assemble a Bloom Ball, helping them review for the final test on the novel, Number the Stars set in WWII Copenhagen. Students are enjoying the hands on investigations we are conducting with our isopods and beetles. They assembled their bug runs and have been making observations about preferred environmental conditions.

 

 

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English In English, we are currently working on our poetry unit, where students are learning about figurative

language and poetic devices, as well as analyzing and composing different types of poetry.

Examples of Group Poems:

Examples of One Sentence Poems by Fevet, AJ and Cat:

Math

Piggybacking on our Linear Equations unit, students are now learning how to solve Systems of Linear Equations. They were taught how to find the POI (Point of Intersection) of two linear equations using four different methods: graphing, equal value, substitution, and elimination.

Up next- Pythagorean Theorem! Science After learning about adaptations in Science, students were asked

to choose an animal they’d like to adapt in some way. They could be as creative as they wanted as long as the adaptation helped the animal survive in its environment better. An especially interesting example: a platypus that farts rainbows to blast off and escape predators.

History Students learned the geologic history of Washington State. We

traveled back 500 million years ago to see that Washington was once mostly underwater. Geologic events were investigated through time to see how present day Washington was formed.

Students also were given the task of helping out paleontologists from University of Washington, by sorting through samples of microfossils from a dig in Montana.

We also studied ancient pollen samples from Battle Ground Lake to see how our local climate has changed over time.

Specialists

Mrs. Smith’s Science Exploratory

Students were busy… Designing a boat that will stay afloat with 25 pennies for 10 seconds or more using duct tape, plastic wrap, and straws. Designing a one piece PFD (personal flotation device) to keep an unopened can afloat for one minute using everyday materials. Students are using the steps of the Engineering Design Process as well as learning about Marine Engineering/Naval Architecture.

Special Education Department

The Special Education Department has exciting news! We were able to add to our staff! Mr. Bryan Vogel came to us after the year began due to growing numbers in our school. He was originally here half the day

working with 5th grade students and then he would have to travel to Pleasant Valley to teach PE. With our numbers continuing to grow, it was decided that Laurin would benefit from having his position be full time. The Special Education Department has been busy "reorganizing" responsibilities within the department while maintaining a strong program.

Ms. Bachman’s Art Class

5th Grade has been working with warm and cool colors, pattern and repetition creating “Action in Motion” 6th Grade has been using different visual textures, images, text, patterns, shapes, numerals, variety and contrast to create non-color value Letter Designs 7th Grade has been drawing cubes in 1 Point Perspective and just finished painting a Gemstone Collage 8th Grade is busy painting watercolor Birch Trees and just completed a Folk Art Cactus composition using mixed media

Laurin Artist Rayna Gardea’s artwork was selected to be featured on Washington Association of Bilingual Education's state conference program and other promotional materials including the conference website. http://wabewa.org

Rayna will be honored as "2018 W.A.B.E. Artist of the Year" on Saturday March 24th at the 2018 W.A.B.E. conference in Tacoma, Washington with $200.00 for her winning artwork. Rayna will also have a vendor space to promote/sell artwork from. Rayna is one of four Laurin Artists who submitted their art for consideration in this state-wide art contest.

Mrs. Zora’s Spanish Students in Mrs. Zora’s Spanish class have been learning to write Spanish Valentines. Take a look at the awesome cards!