The 3rd, 4th and 5th graders are taking part in Pixie class. Pixie is a philosophical reading program. We read the story of a girl named Pixie, very s-l-o-w-l-y. We stop very often to analyze Pixie and what she means when she says things like “but do I belong to my body in the same Read More >>
Archives for November 2015
Author’s Study: Cynthia Rylant
The younger students, K-4, are doing an author study of Cynthia Rylant. We have read picture books in which she gives humorous and touching insights into her early years, The Relatives Came and When I Was Young In the Mountains. We have discovered that Cynthia Rylant uses humor in a lot of her writing, especially Read More >>
Folktales Retold
Folktales Retold is a class in which the kindergarten and first grade students meet two times a week during Silent Reading time to listen to picture books of folktales. We have read several versions of Little Red Riding Hood. Some were retellings of the traditional story, such as Richard Scarry’s Little Red Riding Hood, Gennady Read More >>
Block Soup and Place Value
A small group of 2nd graders has been working on adding and subtracting 2-digit numbers with regrouping. We started by reviewing what a two-digit number is and how important the “place” is for the digit. How different a 24 and a 42 can be even though they have the same digits! We used our blocks Read More >>
Sentence Stretch
Evan, Glady, Aurelia, Etienne, Rowyn, Simon and Valor are participating in Sentence Stretch, a writing class. They take turn choosing topics to write about, like Halloween, solid shapes and winter. They write at least three sentences each. The students write each word, “stretching” the word out and writing the letters of all the sounds they Read More >>
Printing
The youngest group of students are participating in a printing class. They are working their way through the alphabet learning how to form all the capital letters correctly. They have worked on the letters A-M so far and will continue to practice the rest of the capital letters before moving onto lower case letters.
Jack and Goldilocks
Students in the younger and middle groups have been listening to and analyzing the books Goldilocks and the Three Bears and Jack and the Beanstalk. We started out reading a certain version of each book and stopping every few pages to discuss what was happening. We sometimes acted a part out or drew a picture. Read More >>
Statistics
Math class for our 6th graders this fall has been about statistics. We started with gathering, graphing and interpreting data from our classmates about name length. We graphed our data on line plots and bar graphs. We even used a stem leaf plot. We’ve explored mode, median, range and coordinate points. We’ve learned about numerical Read More >>
Math Book Adventures
This Fall, students in our oldest grades have been listening to a series of math books that discuss and explain all different types of math processes. Books we’ve read this fall include: Multiplying Menace, Sold!, Rabbits Rabbits Everywhere, and Zachary Zormer: Shape Transformer. We’ve talked about how multiplying with fractions is the same and Read More >>
Oldest Math Class
This year, Math Class for two of our oldest students started out with combining like terms, solving for variables and setting up and solving proportions. Students have practiced some of these skills using a computer program on MathBits.com called Geo Cashing where you have to find hidden boxes on the web as you solve problems. Not Read More >>