IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Remember that the fall carnival is tomorrow night from 6-8.  We hope to see many of you there!

-Lab School Teachers

Today the students were very excited to see which author they would be studying.  We got into our groups and explored our own author more deeply.  We especially looked closely at illustrations and word choice.  The students made great observations about their author’s style.  We will continue this tomorrow and then after break we will be able to start drafting our own stories that emulate each author!

During community circle yesterday, I posed the question, when do you divide at home?

I was impressed with how easily students were able to identify times they add outside of school. Here were some of their responses:

I divide the cherries when I play High-Ho Cherry-o! – Olivia

When I was in preschool, there were four balls and two people. We had to divide the balls. -Geneva

I divide when I share fruit snacks in the car with my sister. -Madeline

I divide when I share pizza with my family. -Salih

I divide when I share peanut butter and jelly with my brother. -Danielle

When me and my brother eat grapes, we have to divide the grapes. There was one left over, so I gave it to my mom. – Aaliyah (This led to a great mini convo about remainders!)

When I had my birthday, we divided the cake so that I could share it with my friends. -Abel

I had eight Popsicle and I had to share them with my cousins. – Jaeda

So great to be aware of the math that is happening outside of school! This is certainly the goal!

We had a mini field trip today to the audiology center! We are lucky enough to have it housed in our building. Miss Sally, our district audiologist, gave us a tour of the center and the soundproof hearing screening room. Miss Sally was impressed with our knowledge about the parts of the ear and taught us a little bit about a tool called a Timpometer. This tool measures our ear drums’ activity. She let each friend have a try. It was very cool to watch the computer show how our ear drums reacted to the vibration. Miss Sally also taught us about hearing aids and how they work. We learned that if we had trouble hearing, we could use a tool called a hearing aid to help us. We got to try out the aids and see how they amplified the sound for us. Such a neat day!

Tags: curious, field trip, project, sound

Carriea and Oliver are writing their letters to the Children’s Museum.

Jonah writing his letter to the Children’s Museum.

This week the kids decided that they needed to inform the Children’s Museum where the leak came from in the Museum.  The kids have decided that it was the aquarium.  Today, we worked together to decide what was important to tell our friends at the museum.  The kids wanted to tell them that we recreated the sample from the leak and saw there was salt in it and we know that there is salt in the aquarium water.  We also discovered that the aquarium water was the most dense because of the salt in it.  Each child had the chance to start working on their letters.  We will continue this work tomorrow and put them in the mail after that!

David and William playing Knock Knock

Dorothy and Shayla playing Knock Knock

This afternoon, Mr. Ward introduced a new game to the kids to help with place value.  This game was called Knock Knock.  It is played with a deck of cards.  Each player gets three cards and they have to build the largest number possible.  They can trade cards one time to get a higher number.  It was great to see the kids switching numbers around in the hundreds, tens, and ones places to create larger numbers.  It really made them think!  When Mr. Ward asked at the end of Math Workshop who enjoyed the game everyone agreed it was great!  I know they will enjoy it in the upcoming weeks!