This winter, students in Kindergarten through Second Grade participated in a class on growing cycles. We started this class out by talking about our cycles in our own lives. We discussed the months of the year and did an activity where we did all the cycles in a year from the month we were Read More >>
Animal Habitat 2
To finish up our Animal Habitat unit each child created a collage of an animal in its habitat. First they had to decide where the horizon line was going to be. Then what time of day they wanted to depict. Some picked night, some sunset, or mid-day. After finishing the sky they worked on the Read More >>
Little House Read Aloud
The younger and middle group of students have listened to the book Little House in the Big Woods by Laura Ingalls Wilder. While listening to the book, we made a chart of interesting words and the main characters that we heard about. We also got a chance to make butter, visit the pioneer museum at Read More >>
Ten Black Dots
The Kindergartners listened to the book Ten Black Dots by Donald Crews. After reading, counting dots and discussing each page, students have been working on making their own Ten Blue Dots Book. During each class, students get to work on a page or two by drawing their picture with the dots, copying some words off Read More >>
1 + 6 = 7 Centers
Every day the Kindergarten students play games to practice their math skills. These games are played with a teacher or an older student. Children have been working on a number of skills including addition to ten. To practice these skills they have played games like Make 5 Bingo, Ten’s Go Fish, Six of a Kind Read More >>
ABC Centers
Our youngest students typically have an ABC center once a day. During this time they play language arts games with a teacher or an older student. Sometimes the activities involve all three Kindergarten students, sometimes one other student and sometimes the game is played one-on-one. This fall the children have been learning and practicing recognizing Read More >>
Animal Habitat
Our world is a magical place. Students in Kindergarten through 3rd grade have been exploring the unique qualities of each of the seven continents. First we looked at maps of the world, showing the seven continents, and then we made our own map. After each child was assigned a continent they read books learning about Read More >>
Graphing Centers
In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students to identify things like the most, the least and things that have the same amount. They learned significant new terms such as data, key and Read More >>
Butterfly class
In January, we continued our butterfly class. As always it allowed for wonderful conversations on big ideas. One day we began to talk about butterflies, discussing that they don’t stay around to nurture their young. We talked a little about the difference between human, butterflies: learning from our parents or knowing through instinct. But of course, Read More >>
Electricity
The youngest students have recently begun a unit on electricity. We follow the same format we used for our Butterfly class. We meet once a week for 50 minutes. For the first half hour we read and talk. For the next 20 minutes we have a studio time where we break up into 4 or Read More >>