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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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.

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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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 >>

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Blend-it

  Our youngest students spent the first 6 weeks of school playing many games where they worked on identifying the sounds of letters in our alphabet. After giving them all a letter/sound assessment in October (see above) we decided they were ready to start a class we call Blend-it. This class focuses on teaching children how Read More >>

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Picture stretch

Four of our youngest students started a class in late October where they are using pictures to help them identify sounds in the words. For the activity each child draws a picture out a bag, identifies the letter the word begins with, writes the capital and lower case version of the letter and then S-T-R-E-T-C-H-E-S Read More >>