IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Today our friends from Butler joined us! It was great to see them connecting with the students and working with many of them throughout the day.  During Story Workshop we read a book called What Do Authors Do? The students were able to connect what we do in Story Workshop to everything we read about authors in the book.  When I asked raise your hand if you are an author. . .every hand went up.  I am so glad to see that the students feel like they are authors.  We will be celebrating some of their stories at the end of the week and then we will be moving into a unit of study.

Kaitlyn shares how her clay has helped her tell her story with Miss Plumlee.

Emily shares how clay and watercolor have helped her tell her story with Miss Rimmel.

During math workshop we learned something new that mathematicians do: work with a partner to solve a problem! Students worked together today and I heard lots of math conversations happening.  Chairo said, “I think we should add the numbers together.” His partner, Cameron, replied “I think we are trying to find out the amount in between the numbers.”  I could see their thinking growing and changing as they worked with their partners.  We will continue to practice this process and I know that I will see a lot more math discoveries as we continue!

Sydney and De’Onna work together on their math problem.

Kaitlyn and David discuss which strategy they think will be best.

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