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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 >>

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Words as Boomerangs

Every year, and more than once a year, we facilitate discussions at school to help children understand the power of the words they use. Last week we asked children to consider the following quote. This discussion involved the entire school and had children in all grades participating. Words are alive. They shoot out like boomerangs Read More >>

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Women’s Hall of Fame

As part of our social studies unit on Government, the oldest students went on a field trip to Seneca Falls to learn more about the Women’s Rights Movement. They visited the Women’s Hall of Fame, which was opened in 1969. The Hall of Fame’s mission is to recognize the contributions made by women to our Read More >>

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Government and Social Justice

“We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness.” In class we discussed the meaning of these words from the Preamble to the Declaration of Independence. We then brainstormed Read More >>

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Rain Forest

The eleven youngest students started the year learning about the Rain Forest. New concepts and vocabulary were introduced as they listened to and discussed the content of many books on the subject. If I Ran the Rain Forest by Bonnie Worth and Rain, Rain, Rain Forest by Brenda Guiberson helped the children learn about the Read More >>