Halloween came and went, as it always does, and with it so did the lovely pumpkins and jack-o-lanterns that help define and symbolize this exciting and spooky holiday. We kept our pumpkins around for a few days longer, but when we returned from the weekend break both of our jack-o-lanterns were showing extreme signs of …
May 14th was DIVE IN day in Opal 4. As students arrived at school that day, they were sent to one of three groups to be transported back in time to hear three different flood related stories from Oregon History. 1894 – The Willamette River floods Portland’s first Chinatown 1948 – The Columbia River floods …
The students in Levia’s math group have been working for the past couple months on developing an understanding of the associative property of mathematics by working with three-dimensional arrays. The culminating investigation in their study was to determine the volume of 4 foot by 6 foot by 4 foot crate using two different non-standard units …