Over the past few months the students have been learning about electricity. This is a very exciting topic for the students because electricity means a lot of activities and experiments! We learned how to light up a lightbulb only using a battery, lightbulb and two wires and that it makes a complete circuit which the Read More >>
Density and Viscosity
Density and Viscosity This fall, the three seventh graders have been exploring the similarities and differences between density and viscosity. We started by defining the terms: demonstrate, model, interpret, density, viscosity and environment and then watched a video on determining the different densities of oil, water and syrup. Students asked ten questions of the video, Read More >>
Native American Unit
To start off our unit on native tribes in the US, we studied maps and discussed how the original inhabitants of North and South America came to the continents over the ice covered Bering Strait. We looked at the tribes in the 5 regions, (north east, south east, north west, southwest and plains) and how Read More >>
Solar System
Students participated in a Solar system unit where we talked about the name of the planets, their size, their distance from the sun, the moon phases, and constellations. The first-class students listened to a book about the planets and began drawing and coloring in the planet they were designated. I then turned each child’s planet Read More >>
The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian
This fall students read “The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian” by Sherman Alexie. The book is about a kid, named Junior, who lives on the Indian reservation. He was born to Salish Indians, a Coeur d’Alene father and a Spokane mother. His intersectionality of identities caused him to feel like he didn’t fit Read More >>
Simple Machines
In a 5-week online class, students in grades 2 – 4 learned about the seven best known simple machines — lever, inclined plane, wedge, screw, wheel and axle, gear, and pulley — through videos, on-camera demonstrations, discussion and hands-on activities. The purpose of the unit was to show how humans developed ways to make certain Read More >>
Follow Your Dreams Read Aloud
During the beginning stages of our transition from distance to in-person learning at the school, our K-3, in-person students, participated in a read-aloud series during snack that addressed and discussed the importance of children and young people following their dreams and aspirations. The titles from the series included Ada Twist Scientist, by Andrea Beaty, Drum Read More >>
Animal Classification
When Animal class began again in January of this year, we started with a book called The Butterfly and the Lamb. As is often the case, while the book seems very simple it is addressing an important issue: the difference between animals who need to be nutured for some portion of their lifespan and those Read More >>
Younger Local History
After completing a scavenger hunt in the Syracuse area to find a place from a historic postcard, students had to compare their postcard to the current location. Using a visual thinking strategy they tried to notice all the similarities and differences between the two time periods. To share this information with classmates, we had multiple Read More >>
Finding Langston
During Spring 2021, four students in grades 4 – 6 all were in a book club reading Finding Langston. The story was about a boy named Langston and his father after they move to Chicago from Alabama after his mother passed away and Langston finding the writer Langston Hughes. Along with reading the story the Read More >>
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