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Welcome to the THES Student Blog!


For the 2020-2021 school year, the Photojournalism Team will be working remotely.
Their work will continue to be published here.
If ANY THES student wishes to have their work published, please email Ms. Friedman.
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Reading Biographies

  A biography is when the author tells the story of a person’s life. In fifth grade we are reading biographies, then we are creating timelines about what we read. We are working in our notebooks and using good reading strategies.

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4th Grade PBL

4th grade did a PBL First they learned what civic affairs meant.  Then they looked up about their person. Then they did a 2D body map. At the end they wrote their favorite part and least favorite part, what their teacher could change about it, and much more!

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Things at school

Wyatt jumping off the wall, VANS off the wall. Some of the earliest things in the school year, we wrote what we want to improve on and what we are good on. I wrote that I want to be a mathematecian. Beautiful Nature Calming Nature ;]. Walking to the Track.

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4th Grade Math And PBL

Fourth grade is working on decimal addition and subtraction. We are also doing a 2d body map of individuals who participated in civic affairs. Down below are pictures of Ms. Sircy’s class working on math and Ms. Alvarez’s class working on the PBL.

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Things fifth grade is doing

In science the fifth grade students are working on measuring height and width in centimeters with a ruler. We are also working on working on making videos of similes and metaphors in Spanish. We have worked on health in gym. In this photo Ms. Collins is talking to us about nutrition and how important it […]

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Fifth Grade Studies

In this picture the fifth grade is studying writing.  We are turning big watermelon stories into medium slice stories and then finishing it off with turning them in to little seed stories. Science is one of fifth grades favorite subjects in school because we do experiments almost every day. In this photo we are working on […]

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New Members Needed!

For the 2016-2017 school school year, students who were in Photojournalism last year are continuing this year.  We are in need of representatives from Marino’s and Sircy’s classrooms in 4th grade and Byrd’s and Carlson’s classrooms in 5th grade.  You can find the application for a position on the Photojournalism Team here: Application and Talent Release.  All […]

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New Members Needed!

For the 2016-2017 school school year, students who were in Photojournalism last year are continuing this year.  We are in need of representatives from Marino’s and Sircy’s classrooms in 4th grade and Byrd’s and Carlson’s classrooms in 5th grade.  You can find the application for a position on the Photojournalism Team here: Application and Talent Release.  All […]

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Practicing…

This week, a few of us met with Amy Cooper again to practice taking pictures and learning how to make the photos interesting and fun to look at.  (It started to rain, so we didn’t get much practice this week!)  Here are a couple…  

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Learning about Photography

Today Amy Cooper, a kindergarten parent and professional photographer, met with us to share some ideas for taking interesting and focused pictures.  She shared a document with us that outlined some things to think about.  (You can download it here: Photography instructional sheet.)  We’re excited about trying out her ideas! We will meet again on May […]

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