IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

We got to start all kinds of fun new stuff today! I’m really excited about the learning that will be happening this week!

In Reader’s workshop this morning, we began talking about perspective. I read a book called Bee and Me. It is about a bee that is flying away from a dog, and end ups flying into house and unintentionally scaring a child, until the two learn about each other and decide they don’t need to be scared anymore. The students talked about how the child’s perspective was that the bee was bad and they needed to kill the bee. The bee’s perspective was that she hadn’t done anything wrong and the big mean child was trying to hurt her for no reason. The study of perspective has the potential to lead to much deeper understanding of empathy. I look forward to looking at different events, past/present/and fictional from differing perspectives with the students this week.

In Math Workshop, we are talking about adding 10 this week. Today and tomorrow, our story problems involve adding 10 to a single digit number. The last two days of the week, we will be looking at adding 10 to a two digit number (10-90). During share time today, when we looked at all of our problems and answers next to each other, this is what the kids discovered…

When you add 10 to a single digit number:

-the answers are teens (excluding 11 and 12, we discovered)

-the first number of the answer is always a 1

-the second number of the answer is always the single digit number you were adding to 10

The kids were super excited once they realized the pattern and discovered they could figure out the answer without solving the problem with a manipulative first!

During Story Workshop today, we continued down the road of critique and began talking about revising our work. We looked at a series of drawings a student had done of a butterfly. We noticed the changes that were made and that the child drew five drafts before creating their final draft. Then we talked about why someone might choose to work on so many drafts of one work. The students decided that the child who drew the butterfly was trying to make it the best drawing it could be. Then during share time, Abel showed us a revision he had done for a cover of a book he was working on. Tomorrow, we will connect critique and revision and learn how to ask a friend to critique your work so that you can enter into the revision process.

Last but not least, we are taking care of the chickens this week! Today, we collected close to ten eggs. The kids are excited because we will get to use these eggs to bake our October birthday cupcakes on Wednesday!

Madeline feeds one of our school’s chickens!

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