IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

As we were working on our working on our morning message today, some friends asked some questions that lead into a discussion about letters. We work with and explore letters everyday in our classroom. However, students verbalized a new observation today, that no one had ever shared with the whole class…”Some uppercase letters look the same as their lowercase letter, and some look different.” I thought this was a great observation, excited that it was a conclusion they came to on their own! I offered up a continued observation of letters as a free choice, and by the end of the day, students had sorted out all the letters that look the same in upper and lower case form, and all that look different!

"Different" letters

Aaliyah and Leah sort the "same" letters during free choice time.

Other excitement today, revolved around our earthquake drill…

Paiton, Jo'Vyon, and DayTwon demonstrate how to properly protect yourself in the rare case of an earthquake.

And lastly, we started a new scientific exploration today, considering how observation can help us identify things. Students were given a notecard and a toy car. They were asked to draw their car. Then after a minute of drawing. I collected their cars, mixed them all up, and redistributed them. Students had to use their observations from their drawings to explain how they knew that their new car was not the same as their original.

Jermaine, Paiton, Jamaria, Zakeyah, Aaliyah, and William observe their 2nd round of cars.

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