Our Spring 2025 Periscope features recent events and traditions, as well as a Spotlight on Math from each grade level. It has been a year of growth, discovery, and mathematical joy! 

Students in Olders are immersed in Chemistry, and they have come up with questions that they are each eager to investigate! Click below to watch a video slide show of just a few... Students will be presenting their answers in their Personal Textbooks and sharing their findings in a class gathering with families.

As they wrap up their data representation and analysis unit, students in 3rd grade have been building their skills with scaled bar and line plots, learning to use consistent intervals and represent frequency accurately. They’ve applied their understanding of number lines, fractions, and measurement to organize and compare data sets. This unit built on key concepts from earlier units, and helped strengthen students’ fluency, critical thinking, and ability to apply math in meaningful, real-world ways.

Students in Youngers have been learning about sound. They recognize that sound is a vibration, or wave, that travels through matter (solid, liquid, or gas) and can be heard. They explored how instruments can make high and low-pitch sounds based on the frequency of vibrations. They will soon create their own instruments out of recycled and found items and explore how sound can be made from a variety of materials. 

Recently in Violet, math partners took on the challenge of designing a 60k bike course, applying their understanding of fractions in a real-world context. This week, they brought those designs to life through creative and playful presentations. Some standout features included 3D models crafted from recycled materials, gamified course designs, and extreme obstacle challenges featuring meteors, sharks, and even war zones.

Projects like these give students a chance to merge math with imagination, showcasing their skills in unexpected and exciting ways.