During a two week timeframe, the youngest students were introduced to the daily life of ancient Egyptians, primarily looking at what life as a kid would look like. Before studying life as an ancient Egyptian, students reflected on their own daily life and routines. As a group, students completed a Venn Diagram by including events Read More >>
Archives for March 2024
Book Club – The Giver
For five weeks, students read Lois Lowry’s “The Giver” for a small group book club. Meeting weekly, we discussed main ideas, themes, and made predictions for future chapters. Students learned and reinforced how to connect ideas between other non-fiction texts, poems, images, and music. Student’s answered questions each week to guide their reading. To conclude, Read More >>
Space
This spring, students in grades 2-6 participated in learning about space in their science class. In a mixed age group, we discussed what the word “astronomy” means and then had students share what they knew about astronomy. We started the unit by talking about early astronomers and their discoveries/ models. Students created a timeline of Read More >>
Art Studio
During my time here so far I have had the opportunity to take over some of the art studio days. Since this is such a short period during the day, I really like to use it for the youngest children to explore! We have worked with watercolor, color mixing, and clay. We just recently have Read More >>
Art Rage
Students are creating work influenced by their visit to Artrage a while back. They were exposed to the artist Helen Zughaib who created paintings based off of family stories. Each of the students wrote a family story and then I started working with them on the illustration for the assignment. We have been experimenting and Read More >>