PreK/ Kindergarten Team
PreK through Second grade take a trip to Hubers Farm 10/2012
The students really enjoyed learning about how a farm works. They were even more excited that they got to pick vegetables and take them home for dinner!
Pre-K and Kindergarten learn about the marine wildlife living in our Chesapeake bay at the Baltimore National Aquarium 10/2012
Pre-K and Kindergarten incorporate Healthy eating into their Math Lesson 11/2012Students creating healthy foods counting books. First they made a list of some healthy foods they would like to eat. Their was a total number of 2 different fruits or vegetables at the top of the page. The students had to count each and figure out the total. After they finished they got to share their books with their peers. The students had fun exploring the different ways to count and represent numbers and enjoyed using healthy foods to do it! The students also take trips to Hubers Farm each Fall and Great Kids farm each spring where they learn about healthy eating. At Hubers Farm students pick various different vegetables that they can take home and cook for dinner with their families.
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Pre-K and Kindergarten have lessons about how they can help save our planet 4/2012
Students learned how to take care of the home we all share- Earth. They discussed why it is important to reuse items and reduce waste to keep our planet clean and healthy. The class came up with some great suggestions. Don't waste food. Throw trash away in a can to reduce pollution. Plant seeds for new trees to grow. Separate our waste into trash, compost, and recycling to reduce the amount of waste going into the landfill. Conserve water by turning the faucet off when you are brushing your teeth.
PreK was able to go out and check ou the new and improved reading garden 4/2013
The kids were so excited they wrote letters to the PTO for cleaning up the
garden so they can get in there to read and plant vegetables and flowers.
garden so they can get in there to read and plant vegetables and flowers.
First Grade
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1st grade class read "Just a Gum Wrapper" 4/2013We read a book called,"Just a Gum Wrapper". We discussed what hurts the Earth and its inhabitants. As we read, we discussed what we could do as young people to help the earth. We brainstormed a variety of ideas and wrote them on sentence strips for our bulletin board. Then we chose the one way to help the earth and we illustrated it and wrote a sentence more about our illustration.
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1st Grade will be making green cleaning products 5/2013
Allison Rich- “I am working on green cleaning products with John Eager Howard and would be happy to come in and make green cleaning products with other students--I just developed a few lesson plans to teach 1st graders about air, air pollution, and green cleaning.’
Second Grade
Second grade class learns about habitats. 11/2012
2nd graders learn about the different life cycles/habitats of butterflies, frogs, and chickens.
Second Grade class re-uses materials for various projects 3/2013
2nd grade students are making Easter baskets from milk jugs they collected at home and brought into school.
Second Grade Class Learns About Worms 4/2013
We had a visit from Mr. Machesky today! He has his own worms and uses them to compost his food scraps and make enriched soil for his garden. We learned all about what makes them happy and what does not. We even got to hold them (If we weren't too grossd out!). Ms. t read us the book,"Diary of a worm". We discussed the importance of worms. We recorded what we learned in our journals. a journal
Second Grade Painted a Mural in our Reading Garden 4/2013
With the help of Ann Wiker from Art Exposure, INC., the second graders dipped their hands in paint and pressed their hands to the wall 4 times to make petals of a flower.
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Second grade class created a litterbug museum 4/2013
Ms. Decker's class is collecting items from the recycling bin to make litter bugs.
Third Grade
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Third grade Field Trip to Living Classrooms - 12/2011The 3rd graders attending a plankton and biofilm study at the Living Classrooms Masonville Cove. The students learned about plankton’s essential role in the food chain and as an oxygen producer. After a brief microscope-use lesson, plankton samples are prepared by the students and then independently examined. Collective group viewing of specimens is also achieved with our video microscope. In this day-long, interactive environmental mystery for grades 3-6, students role play and conduct experiments to examine the possible roles of Solute Sally, Hot Water Harry, Danielle Debris, Oscar Osprey, and Brittany Ballast in the death of a local fish, Rocky. This day includes microscope use and experimentation in our chemical lab. Culmination of the experience includes a discussion on how students themselves can prevent almost all of these negative impacts upon our Bay.
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Third grade field trip to Wheelabrator 11/2011
Getting silly with Wheelabrator Lunch Boxes
On a beautiful day in November, Ms. Aprey's 3rd grade class was invited to join Mayor Stephanie Rawlings-Blake, Wheelabrator Mid-‐Atlantic Regional Manager Jeff Primavera and several others to pay tribute to the solid waste collection workers of Baltimore City. The students got a very exciting tour of the RESCO Trash-to-Energy Plant, the smoke stack from the plant is a defining landmark in the Baltimore City Skyline. The students learned that the plant, one of the largest trash-to-energy plants in the US, has processed more than 9 million tons of waste so far, and can provide electricity for as many as 40,000 homes. They got to see first hand their garbage being dropped into the the incinerator by the big claw, everybody's favorite part! After the tour and press conference, the students were treated to lunch and all received a new Wheelabrator Baltimore, L.P. reusable insulated lunch tote.
Third Grade goes to Masonville Cove 3/2013In this day-long, interactive environmental mystery for grades 3-6, students role play and conduct experiments to examine the possible roles of Solute Sally, Hot Water Harry, Danielle Debris, Oscar Osprey, and Brittany Ballast in the death of a local fish, Rocky. This day includes microscope use and experimentation in our chemical lab. Culmination of the experience includes a discussion on how students themselves can prevent almost all of these negative impacts upon our Bay. Student cleaned up trash and debris on the beach. Students were surprised that air pollution from the surrounding factories is a major cause of water pollution.
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Third Grade discuss how to be heathly 9/2012
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Third grade class's Rainforest Project Spring 2013
The rainforest project started when we read "The Great Kapok Tree" and discussed the cause and effects of how humans impact the rainforest. We focused in on the author's note in the back of the book and discussed how we could help save the rainforest. Students then used technology and the library to research a variety of different rainforest animals. Students have created a large model diagram together of a Kapok tree and will place their animal where their animal can be found after spring break. Finally students have been writing songs with their interpretation of what the rainforest sounds like.
Third Graders attended Great Kids Farm Garden Summit 4/2013
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Fourth Grade
Maryland Department of Agriculture Comes to educate fourth grade students about Maryland Crops 9/2011Mr. Gummer is an Urban Education Consulatant from the Maryland Agriculture Education Foundation came to Federal Hill Prep to educate students about where their food comes from, how its produced, and the benefits of a healthy diet. He discussed life cycle of food systems, true energy costs of food and discussed how a particular food goes from farm to table. Part of the hand on lesson was making butter. The kids loved it and want him to come back next year!
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Fourth grade students participated in a Shipboard Education Program through Living Classrooms 10/2011Shipboard Education & Environmental Outreach Programs Living Classrooms Foundation has provided unique hands-on, interdisciplinary and environmental education programs aboard historic ships and on land since 1985. These dynamic, "learning by doing" programs emphasize applied learning in math, science, social studies, language arts, and social skills.
The students were able to go on an expedition at sea. The Sigsbee is a traditional Chesapeake Bay skipjack, a sailing craft designed and built to dredge for oysters. Skipjacks typically have a flat or v-shaped bottom and a shallow draft. The one self-tending jib and large triangular mainsail make these vessels easy to sail with a small crew. Today, skipjacks represent the last remaining commercial sailing fleet in the nation. Participants see how academic skills are used in the real world. Leadership and teamwork are key objectives as students work together to raise and lower sails, trawl for marine life, perform scientific tests, and explore the commerce, history, natural resources, and ecosystems of the Chesapeake Bay. |
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Fourth Grade class goes on an adventure on The SnowGoose with the Chesapeake Bay FoundationStudents go to go on a work boat called the Snow Goose with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. Part of the Baltimore Harbor Program to educate students on the environment and the Bay. The students learned about Oysters and how they are not doing well in the Bay right now, but with their efforts, they can turn them around. The fourth grade students raised baby oysters and planted them out on the oyster sanctuary reef around Fort Carroll, where they will serve as filters and habitat near the mouth of the Patapsco River.
By being able to get out and see what they are learning about in the classroom instead of staying in the classroom all the time the students can gain a better understanding. We find these shared experiences in our school and in the Chesapeake Bay Foundation helps build a sense of community with the kids. These are things you cannot learn in a book. |
Fourth Grade Trip to Masonville Cove 4/2012Students first hypothesize and then experiment with wet chemistry, hand held instruments, and field colorimeters to determine important water quality parameters such as salinity, temperature, pH, dissolved oxygen, etc. If timing allows, students can also make saltwater themselves in this station to better understand salinity. Water quality is taught as a determination of health and sustainability of the Chesapeake Bay.
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Fourth Grade- SLURPP 5/2012
School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction Project sponsored by Living Classrooms came to our school to do two fun projects. We stenciled "Don't Dump, Chesapeake Bay Drainage" onto the storm drain on our outdoor area to show it eventually leads to the Inner Harbor. This will create awareness in our community when they come play in our playground.
We also performed a Community Cleanup. SLURPP representatives talked to us about the types and sources of litter in our streets. We provided a valuable service to the community. It calls students' attention to the types and sources of litter on their streets.
We also performed a Community Cleanup. SLURPP representatives talked to us about the types and sources of litter in our streets. We provided a valuable service to the community. It calls students' attention to the types and sources of litter on their streets.
Fourth grade trip to the aquarium 9/2012
Students enjoyed learning about the inhabitants of our planets coral reefs, open oceans, rainforests, and our very own Chesapeake bay
Fourth Grade class gets a visit from Days of Taste 10/2012The American Institute of food and wine offers a very unique program founded by Julia Child in which they teach students about real food- where it is grown and how it is produced- so they can develop an understanding and appreciation of how good, fresh, local food is supposed to taste. They accomplish this by bring chefs and food from local farms to the classrooms. Students compare and contrast tastes and textures as well as develop understandings about different foods and basic nutrition principles that will remain with them into adulthood.
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Fourth Grade class Learns about Animals that Camouflage 3/2013
Ms. Wiseman's class demonstrated how animals and insects protect themselves through camouflage.
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SLURRP visits Fourth Grade class to clean-up 3/2013SLURRP set bins on our school yard. Students went around an picked up all of the things that don't belong there and put it into bins labeled trash or recycling. Another lesson to reinforce that not everything goes in the trash.
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Fifth Grade
Fifth Grade was able to explore the Chesapeake with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation 10/20115th grade students went on a boat trip with the Chesapeake Bay Foundation. We learned about and observed native species of fish, birds, and other wildlife. We learned that keeping the bay clean is important to protect our environment and that it starts with us in our own community.
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Fifth Grade class visits Masonville Cove 5/2012Groups of students moved through various stations to hear presentations about our local environment. Topics included water pollution, native animal and plant species. Students learn the importance of native versus non-native species in Maryland, are introduced to the environmental impact of local versus global food sources, and learn the role of plants in preventing runoff and absorbing extra nutrients that may harm the Chesapeake Bay. Students planted in our MCEEC gardens.
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SLURRP comes to 5th Grade 11/2012Here we are learning how to use a GPS by plotting coordinates around the schoolyard. Then we used this information to design a schoolyard that is more environmentally friendly by planting more grass and other pervious surfaces, adding rain barrels, and growing a rooftop garden.
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Fifth Grade Recycling Project 11/2012
Students interviewed recycling FHPS coordinator about our current recycling program. They developed questions. Students went through and tracked a container of trash and a container of recycling. They graphed their findings and then discuss what items can and cannot be recycled. This would be an intro to their project for this quarter which will be to create a poster about recycling and deliver a brief lesson to the other grade levels.
Fifth grade science lesson with rocks and minerals 12/2012As part of the lesson on rocks and minerals, Ms. Campion had her students do a cookie mining experiment. She explained that while monetary things can be discovered by mining it has its consequences too. The digging up of very large areas of land can cause environmental problems. In areas of wilderness mining may cause destruction and disturbance of ecosystems and habitats, and in areas of farming it may disturb or destroy productive grazing and croplands. In urbanised environments mining may produce noise pollution, dust pollution and visual pollution.
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Fifth grade class has another visit from SLURRP 1/2013
To study local habitats
Art
Art with Rachel Machesky 2012-2016
Each grade has art with our Art with a Heart program. Ms. Machesky does various projects with the students using recycled material!
Arts Integration- What makes an insect an insect 11/2012
Insect Rap/Shape Poem lesson. The Third Grade teacher, Ms.Arpey and Ms. Wirshing worked together on this lesson. Students were having issues remembering and understanding how to define what an insect is. They kept calling spiders insects, for example. So we had the kids list the characteristics, find insects that fit that description, write a rap about "What makes an insect an insect?" and finally made shape poems of insects using the lyrics to their rap. It was a lot of fun, and the kids still like to perform their rap!
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Arts Integration 1/2013
5th grade students together with Ms. Wirsching made musical instruments out of recled materials.
Music
Music- 12/5/2012 Ms. Wirsching taught 4th and 5th grade green club students a jingle so they could participate in a video shoot for the City of Baltimore’s new Clean Up Baltimore PSA ad. shoot.
Music
Students participated in a video telling other students to keep their streets clean.
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Physical Education
Physical education-9/2011 thru 4/2013 Mr. Byerly invites students every year to participate in The Marathon Kids program. Each fall Mr. Byerly meets students at the kickoff celebration to run 1 mile. throughout the course of the year they get together in the gym and run until they accumulate 26.2 miles. The students have charts that they fill out to keep track of their mileage. Mr. Byerly serves healthy snacks of oranges, bananas, and water to keep their energy up.
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Mr. Byerly has organized a fundraiser where students will jump rope for a heart!
Our school is proud to partner with the American Heart Association to help kids with special hearts! Mark your family calendars NOW for our upcoming Jump Rope For Heart event taking place May 11th 2013! You can help the American Heart Association and our school by helping your child to make a web page. It’s safe, effective, and saves YOU time for raising life-saving donations online! If you want to get started on helping your child become a Heart Hero – go to www.heart.org/jump or www.heart.org/hoops and click on Students Sign Up to get started today! If your child already has their page, please help them send reminder emails to those that haven’t replied. You can make your own donation to your child’s page and ask your company if they’ll do a match! Check out your child’ page now. Every Dollar Raised= More Lives Saved!
Check Out Online Fundraising:
Check Out Online Fundraising:
- Parents click on Social Media after registering and download the new app, fundraise with Facebook and Twitter, and check your child’s progress on the go!
- Check out the new E-Card: Send it out as your email- your friends & family will have fun.
- Raise $25 online or more for your Heart Hero Tattoo!
- Want a Heart Man? Raise $200 or more online
Professional Development
Meeting with Waste Neutral 8/2012
Keith Losoya came to meet with our entire faculty and staff (100%) to give a refresher course on why we should collect our food waste and compost it. The faculty and staff came to school the week before students started to prepare for the year. Part of that preparation was to listen to our compost teams 's presentation.
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Viewing of Inconvenient Truth 8/2012
75% of our faculty viewed An Inconvenient Truth. A documentary film about former Vice President Al Gore's campaign to educate citizens about global warming. Since the film's release, An Inconvenient Truth has been credited for raising international public awareness of climate change and re-energizing the environmental movement. The documentary has also been included in science curricula in schools around the world. The next movie on our list is Cafeteria Man.
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Our 5th grade teacher Ms. Campion attended professional development at SLURRP 10/2012 and 12/2012
Ms. Campion attending 2 Professional development days with living classrooms SLURRP (School Leadership in Urban Runoff Reduction project) program.
Baltimore Energy Challenge Training 4/2013
Noreen Ahmed, from the Baltimore Energy Challenge will be teaching the Teachers little to no cost methods of saving energy in their classrooms and around the school. 100% of faculty and staff will be attending this meeting. Baltimore Energy Challenge (BEC) will be conducting a workshop teaching ways that one can save energy at home and at work. These include basic actions such as changing your light bulbs to more efficient ones. There will be a fun energy bingo game, where one can cross off energy-saving actions they participate in. Winners will receive an energy-related bingo prize. BEC will also be giving away energy-saver kits to anyone who signs our pledge to lower their energy consumption. The presentation will take 45-1 hr, but can be shortened if necessary.
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Allison Rich to Teach Environmental Curriculum 5/2013
Allison Rich from the Maryland Environmental Health Network will be coming to our school for professional development for the educators at our school to share curriculum the teachers can use in their classrooms. 100% of faculty and staff will be attending this meeting.
Celebration
Earth Day Celebration 2011/2012
To celebrate Earth Day, Waste Neutral gave us soil from our composting efforts. All year long the students have been collecting their leftover food scraps from lunch. Waste Neutral picks up the scraps and takes them to their composting site in the county. The students couldn't believe that their food scraps had been turned into enriched soil. Each student had an opportunity to pick out an herb and using the compost soil plant their herb in a pot and take it home.
Murals - Students get to help paint Murals throughout the school
Earth Week April 22-25, 2013
On Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday students were able to take a trip to Great Kids Farm. While there they learned about various types of greens that they can grow in a garden. They learned how to make buttermilk dressing and sampled their greens with the dressing. They tasted raw beets and many were surprised how sweet they were. We were able to walk around and see the green houses on a tour of them farm. We looked at he bins where the farm keep their worms for composting. We got to taste some of the many things grown on site. We learned the importance of goats on a farm for eating weeds and were able to feed them. We learned about honey bees and got to sample 3 different kinds of honey. It was a fun day at farm!
On Thursday, several groups were able to come to our school. Blue Water Baltimore set up 2 stations. Lauren Poor presented to the kids “who polluted the bay?” activity in which she showed the students a bottle of clean water and poured different pollutants into the bottle demonstrating what happens when trash and different debris goes into the storm drains in our neighborhoods. The students were surprised they can be partially responsible for the horrible condition of our harbor.
Lisa DeGuire, also from Blue Water Baltimore, presented a watershed model to the students demonstrating they live in a watershed. A watershed is the land through which water flows and drains to a body of water. Lisa showed the students a picture diagram and a 3D watershed model. She explained to them that when it rains, stormwater runoff carries whatever is on the street to the storm drain intlets down the stormwater pipes discharge to the harbor and Chesapeake Bay. She explained if we clean up our streets we can prevent trash from entering the storm drains and subsequently polluting the Bay. The planting of trees will also filter water.
Blue Water Baltimore also brought storm drain stencils and trained our parent volunteers to use them. Dominic Wiker, a parent volunteer identified 20 storm water drain inlets surrounding our school for stenciling. Walter Saxon from FHNA has experience stenciling storm drains and volunteered to help us in our efforts. The students were very excited to paint on the side walks! After they were finished they realized that they were bringing awareness to pedestrians that these drains are not trash cans. The students signed and colored pledges that will be hung up at school as a reminder not to litter.
Charlie Murphy from Tree Baltimore walked the students around our school yard identifying trees. He pointed several out to them and showed them the leaves. We have maples and oaks on our playground. He discussed the benefits of the trees
Brian Line from Baltimore Energy Challenge gave a presentation in the auditorium. He discussed with the students the energy required to make a bottle of water. He had several students on stage holding up signs representing the various steps to make a bottle of water. The students couldn’t believe how much energy was required just to make one tiny bottle of water. Brian then distributed to the students a picture and requested them to pick out all of the energy wasting activities in the picture. It really made them think about how walking out of a room and leaving the television on wasted energy.
On Thursday, several groups were able to come to our school. Blue Water Baltimore set up 2 stations. Lauren Poor presented to the kids “who polluted the bay?” activity in which she showed the students a bottle of clean water and poured different pollutants into the bottle demonstrating what happens when trash and different debris goes into the storm drains in our neighborhoods. The students were surprised they can be partially responsible for the horrible condition of our harbor.
Lisa DeGuire, also from Blue Water Baltimore, presented a watershed model to the students demonstrating they live in a watershed. A watershed is the land through which water flows and drains to a body of water. Lisa showed the students a picture diagram and a 3D watershed model. She explained to them that when it rains, stormwater runoff carries whatever is on the street to the storm drain intlets down the stormwater pipes discharge to the harbor and Chesapeake Bay. She explained if we clean up our streets we can prevent trash from entering the storm drains and subsequently polluting the Bay. The planting of trees will also filter water.
Blue Water Baltimore also brought storm drain stencils and trained our parent volunteers to use them. Dominic Wiker, a parent volunteer identified 20 storm water drain inlets surrounding our school for stenciling. Walter Saxon from FHNA has experience stenciling storm drains and volunteered to help us in our efforts. The students were very excited to paint on the side walks! After they were finished they realized that they were bringing awareness to pedestrians that these drains are not trash cans. The students signed and colored pledges that will be hung up at school as a reminder not to litter.
Charlie Murphy from Tree Baltimore walked the students around our school yard identifying trees. He pointed several out to them and showed them the leaves. We have maples and oaks on our playground. He discussed the benefits of the trees
Brian Line from Baltimore Energy Challenge gave a presentation in the auditorium. He discussed with the students the energy required to make a bottle of water. He had several students on stage holding up signs representing the various steps to make a bottle of water. The students couldn’t believe how much energy was required just to make one tiny bottle of water. Brian then distributed to the students a picture and requested them to pick out all of the energy wasting activities in the picture. It really made them think about how walking out of a room and leaving the television on wasted energy.
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Federal Hill Preparatory is awarded a Green Flag May 28,2013!
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