IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Today we began cutting the helmets which has really excited the children! We have about thirteen more to make so by Friday we should be done and ready to launch on Monday.

Some friends have been very interested in making a shuttle out of Legos. After about a week of doing this, Mrs. Grotjan found this video of this guy who launched his Lego shuttle in space!! Well, the children have decided to do this. This experience which we will track using a GPS or video will help us strengthen our knowledge of a map and space and tracking data. We are going to use a GPS or video…if anyone has any resources for getting a video recorder (we will never see it again since we are launching it into space) let me know!

Today in Reader’s Workshop, we created a “story path” as a group.  Together we put pictures on a path that helped us retell the story of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  The kids were so excited to retell the story.  The best part was when they got to come up and retell it with a partner during our independent reading time!

Some of our friends working on the story path.

Sophia, Tylisha, and Dorothy retelling parts of Goldilocks and the Three Bears.

Max and Reid are sharing their retelling with the class.

As if a story path was not enough, the kids went crazy in Writer’s Workshop!  Today we made puppets for the story, The Little Red Hen.  The kids worked in partners to retell the story using their puppets.

Tyler and Salih are retelling The Little Red Hen with their puppets!

CJ and Nytaiya are using the book as a resource to retell The Little Red Hen!

Tajanaye helps her friend Angela create a worm out of yarn. See a need, fill a need- friendship.

Messi creates a garden with clay. There are even little seeds planted in holes!

Messi’s garden

Friends create puppets during writer’s workshop.

Da’Sean and his group create Goldilocks puppets together to retell the story.

Jenesis shows off her set for her groups production of Goldilocks!

Friends create a story path about the Little Red Hen.

Tags: collaboration, friendship, garden

Today we saw pictures of the inside of a cajon, which is a drum that looks like a box. We decided that we could make one.

This is a cajon.This is what a cajon looks like from the inside.

To get ready to build a real cajon, some of our friends made a cajon out of clay.

Isabella made a cajon out of clay.

Today Miss Robison (the student teacher in the Studio) came back from a week long professional development opportunity. As soon as she came back, I asked her to help with the space suits since I have no experience with sewing. In twenty minutes she was back with one of the space suits finished! We had Emily try it on since Cha’kyra was not there. It was so fun to see it in person! We cannot wait to see the rest come to life!

This week we are beginning to talk about inferring which is making deeper connections with the text by reading between the lines to see what is really happening. Mr. Nored opened by introducing Me Bags where he showed three objects (sunglasses which means he likes the outdoors and beach, a CD which means he loves music, and a piece of a basketball net which means he loves to play basketball). We were practicing making inferences based on the objects brought in. We are excited because starting today we sent home two bags where the children will be doing this. They will be bringing into school 3-5 objects that tell more about who they are and what they like. THe children were really excited about this so tomorrow we will see what Mekhi and Heaven have brought us that tell us a bit more about them!

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