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Systemic Racism

Our children, our students, live in a world that has developed all kinds of media and ways to transmit information, disinformation, ideas, and images.  They hear the media, adults, other peers talking about events and opinions as they move through their days.  Some of these ideas are exciting and innovative, others are darker and disturbing.  Read More >>

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Spanish with Amanda

Spanish this semester went so well! Ace, Ben, Greer, and Jonas were all such wonderful students ready for each class with great participation and questions! We started off the semester working with “Las Palabras del Día” (The words of the day) where we started basic vocabulary acquisition. At first, we learned about basic Spanish conversational Read More >>

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Math Table Spring 2017

Students in 5th, 6th and 7th grade participate weekly in a 50 minute math table that explores 5th, 6th and 7th grade math topics.  This spring, we have spent a lot of time on fractions.  Those pesky fractions have tested us with adding, subtracting, being mixed with whole numbers, divided, multiplied and more.  We’ve also Read More >>

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13 Colonies Update

After looking at maps and realizing how many people were already here in the “new world” each student was assigned a tribe to read about, do research on and report about their customs, homes, food and more.  Students were also given picture of Native Americans in different situations and used VTS (visual thinking strategy) to figure Read More >>

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All About Books

This unit was started by our student teacher this past fall.  After she left, we slowly have been finishing up what she started.  Each student picked a topic that they knew “all about” and started writing about that topic.   Topics include, cheetahs, NASA, The Fastest Things, Video Games, Tae Kwon Do and more.  Using Read More >>

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Salt Water Biome – the Ocean

Students in grades 1, 2 and 3 were part of a unit that recently studied the ocean. Students working with a partner explored the characteristics of a specific layer of the ocean. They researched and wrote a short paragraph describing their assigned layer and the animals that inhabit it. Students selected and illustrated two animals from Read More >>

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Math Class

This class began the year with “equalizing”. That means we started with making “unequal” amounts of objects. They couldn’t be the same or “equal”. Over time the children came to know we were going to change unequal amount equal amounts by adding or subtracting to one side or the other. As the year has progressed Read More >>

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Printing Class All Year

At the start of the school year, children in kindergarten worked on writing upper case letters of the alphabet.   We have now moved on to lower case letters! During each class, we use sign language, the sound of the letter and printing pages to practice on two letters.                 Read More >>

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Read Alouds

Listening to books read out loud is a favorite part of our day. At the end of each day children free draw in their sketch books as they listen to great stories by great authors. This year the youngest children have listened to: Dan the Pawn, Trumpet of the Swan by E.B. White, Lafcadio by Shel Read More >>

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Amelia Bedelia Take Two!

Students in kindergarten and first grade have been enjoying the silly antics of Amelia Bedelia all year.  During class, we read a book, discuss the “mistakes” that Amelia makes about the English  language and then draw about some of them.          Each child is working on making their own Amelia Bedelia book to Read More >>