At the end of our independent reading time some days, we have a buddy share. Students read to each other or share about the books they are reading. It’s a great way for students to find new books they might … Read More
To work on understanding math problems, we have been doing work with numberless word problems. These problems start without numbers so that students focus on what the problem is asking rather than immediately doing something with the numbers. (Often, students … Read More
We do clothesline math sometimes. We have numbers or, in this instance, coins, and order them from smallest to largest. It makes for lots of conversation about the relative sizes of numbers as we decide where to put each one.
Over the period of about a month we’ll have four D.A.R.E. lessons. Hopefully you’ll hear about these from your child.
Our research is moving forward. We’re learning lots of fascinating things. Soon we’ll publish what we’ve learned so that we can share our learning with each other.
On Valentine’s Day we read this book. After reading it we thought about what love is in our lives. Here are some of our ideas.
During indoor recess and at lunch over the past couple of weeks, some students decided to create some anti-bullying posters. They enlisted the help of our counselor. Now their posters are hanging around the school.
Valentine’s Day was so much more fun because we got to spend it with so many of our families. Thank you to all who made time to join us. And thank you for the ways you included students whose parents … Read More
On Valentine’s Day we graphed the colors of candy hearts. It got a bit tricky for some when there were more of one color than there were spaces on the graph. We had do some critical thinking and problem solving. … Read More
For the past few weeks we’ve been working on researching a topic and question of our own interest. We’ve got some people researching animals, food, history, and outer space. We’re learning skills for reading nonfiction, finding information, organizing information, and … Read More
