PUUURR-FECTLY EXCITED TO GET STARTED!

I am so excited about this CCATS school year! We are going to learn some really awesome things and participate in cool experiments! Below is the supply list for this year!

WELCOME BACK TO A NEW CCATS YEAR!!

I am excited about this year’s gifted units of study.  Gifted students in grades 3-5 will attend classes 5 ½ hours every other week.  Classes will begin the week of September 1^st.  Please see the class schedule for your student’s 1^st meeting date.

LaFayette-Lanier 3^rd, 4^th, and 5^th Grade will be bussed to Huguley.

Huguley students will be served at Huguley.

Supply List for CCATS

Pencil Pouch  

Scissors

2 glue sticks

1 bottle of glue

1 small pack of colored pencils

1 small pack of markers

2 black sharpies- fine tip

USB Flash Drive – 4GB is plenty

Pencils- only a few  

Boys – 1 roll of paper towels

Girls- 1 container of disinfectant wipes

All supplies will remain in the CCATS classroom for the school year.

For information, important forms, photos of class events, etc. please visit my CCATS blog

www.purdyccats.blogspot.com or join the CCATS Class Facebook group, www.Facebook.com/Ccatsclass. 

Also, in an effort to continue to improve communication, I will be using REMIND again this year.  I have sent emails for instructions on how to sign on using your computer or phone. If you did not get this information by email please contact me through email so that I may send you instructions.  I hope this will allow you to receive information in a timely manner.

I will once again be using ClassDojo as a behavior management system. It allows you to see how great your child is in class and when they have a rough day. I will comment on your child after each class. I will be sending home the information explaining how to sign up by computer or phone. This is a valuable tool that keeps us all in sync!

You may also contact me through school email purdycm@chambersk12.org or by calling 334-576-2572 during school hours.

Sincerely,

Christina Purdy

Rube Goldberg Contraptions!

Have you ever heard of Rube Goldberg? He was Pulitzer Prize winning cartoonist, sculptor, and author! He had a degree in Engineering, but became famous through his cartoons! Rube Goldberg is even an adjective in the dictionary! Rube drew cartoons that took a simple task and made it incredibly complicated!
The 3rd grade CCATS have studied simple machines, complex machines, and Rube Goldberg. They were given the task of coming up with a Rube Goldberg Contraption, designing it, labeling it, and finally building it! Each contraption had to have 7 steps and at least 3 simple machines. Here are some that they came up with!

Facebook Fame!

Please send a friend request to our new Facebook page, CCATS Class. We will be posting pictures of field trips on that page. We will continue to post pictures of what goes on in our classroom on the blog!

Miss You Much!!

I'm going to miss this 5th grade group from Langdale! They are so smart, respectful, hardworking, and such a hoot! I'll miss you! Come back to see me when you can!

McKay, Camryn, Leonard, Alex, Cameron, Hattie, Anaiya, LaTaevia, and Mrs. Purdy!!

Hoo, Hoo Got to Check Out Owl Pellets??

Some of the 4th graders worked really hard to finish up what we were working on and got to do an extra activity! I can't say that all of them enjoyed it, though! We discussed raptors, and specifically owls. We learned about their internal digestive system and how the regurgitate the parts of animals that they can't digest, This comes back up in a nicely packed pellet! I gave the students owl pellets from Auburn University's Raptor Center that had been sanitized and disinfected. The students got to break them open and discover all the cool parts of animals that the owl couldn't digest! How cool!

Treanna found a really large rat skull, complete with teeth!

Noah and Brody are trying hard to find all the bones in all the fur!

Dalton, Brody, and Noah are working hard on separating their owl pellets!

Jayden really wasn't sure this was the best activity!

Caden and Eric are cleaning bones they found!

Look at those broken up owl pellets!

Treanna, Ashlyn, Libby, and Logan enjoyed dissecting owl pellets!

Researchers!

The 4th grade has spent a lot of time researching and learning how to research! Maybe now they can find answers to the many questions they always seem to have! I love the curiosity!

Sometimes they get to do partner or group research!

Sometimes they have to do individual research, right Gracie?

Alex likes to make himself comfortable while using the Kindle!

Creations and Creatures!!

After studying ocean animals and learning about the anatomy of fish, the 4th graders were able to pick one ocean animal to research and then attempt to recreate out of paper mache! This was a fun, messy, educational, messy, artistic, and did I mention MESSY! Here are some photos of some of the process!

Taysean, Caden, and Alex think painting is so much fun!

Gracie, Dylan, and Jaecobey learn how to share while painting!

Coby is putting a final paper mache coat on his lion fish! 

Hope, Cadey, and Marylisa are being very careful!

They looked a lot different with just newspaper on them!

Did I mention this was messy?

We had to prop up fins to keep them from flopping down!

Caden and Jaecoby were all into the mache!

Cobey and Marylisa are being careful!

I think Taysean has more paper mache on him than on his fish!

We had to set up a washing station in the room! Dylan is glad to be cleaning up!