Snapshots of Learning

RISPCA Giving
By: Steven Ladeira, Emma Paquette, Autumn Comey, Ryan Bomes, Logan Keating, Janelle Greene, and Marcus Taborda

Fourth graders at Palmer River in Grade 4 donated to the RISPCA this past holiday season. Please consider doing the same! Shelters are important to our community. Shelters help stop overpopulation and homelessness. Also, cats and dogs receive care and temporary homes from animal shelters. Another reason shelters are important is that shelters work so hard to keep dangerous animals off the streets and they teach the community how to help animals. Shelters are necessary for their important work with animals and us.
Shelters need your help for donations. Shelters need donations to perform lifesaving work and make sure animals are healthy. For example, shelters need money for animals who are sick and abandoned. Can you believe that 7.6 million companion animals enter animal shelters every year?

You can help these homeless Animals in many ways. For example donate time. You can clean up after Animals and refill their water bowls also give them food, toys and treats. Another way is donate time volunteer to help groom, play and clean. The last thing you can do to help is foster homeless pets, animals need temporary homes to grow and heal. Don’t forget to donate to shelters this winter. The animals will appreciate it. Please can you help the animal shelter in our community?

Interactive Learning- All over Palmer River, in every classroom, students are engaged in all kinds of interactive problem solving. Long gone are the days when you sit at your desk for hours; kids today are on the move! Fourth graders, (pictured left) challenge each other to determine what “point of view” the author was writing from. Seen “climbing higher” in another fourth grade classroom is Mrs. Stebbings. She was not afraid to help students test which elements of the classroom were made of a material that attracted a magnet. This type of authentic investigation and practice creates lasting learning for our students.

BWANA IGANA REPTILE ADVENTURE - Students in varied classrooms participated in a wildly exciting presentation by Ray of BWANA IGANA. The students learned about many different species of reptiles and had the opportunity to engage with them first hand. We saw a Blue Tongued Skink, a Hinged Box Turtle, and even a “dancing” lizard. Did you know that the lizard’s blue tongue tricks its predator into thinking that it is poison? This presentation was sponsored by Alan Shawn Feinstein in an effort to celebrate all the good work our students are doing. Presenter, Ray Ward, did an outstanding job of sharing his expertise and engaging our students.