In our science class with students in grades 3 and 4, we studied the water cycle. This unit focuses on how water exists in our world and how it transforms Read More >>
Archives for May 2018
Graphing Centers
In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students Read More >>
The Littles Book Club
In our Book Club class we read and discussed the book “The Littles” by John Peterson. Our focus during this Book Club was on reading comprehension. The students in class Read More >>
Biography Class
Recently in biography class students have been researching different figures from Colonial Times. Each of the students in class was assigned a different person and wrote a narrative paragraph Read More >>
Math Centers – Place Value 2018
For most of the second part of this school year, the youngest children have been working on two digit place value. We started off counting up from the bottom of Read More >>
Raisin in the Sun
The oldest group of students were part of a book club where they read Lorraine Hansberry’s play, “Raisin in the Sun.” Over a period of a month, the students met Read More >>
Silk Road
This spring the oldest students started a unit on the Silk Road. The four objectives of this unit included being able to identify the major physical features that hindered travel Read More >>
Peter Spier Author Study
This spring the younger students, K-4, did an author study of Peter Spier. Peter Spier was a Dutch-born illustrator and author of more than thirty children’s books. We read Bored Read More >>