Oct 04 2012
Today was a huge success! A big thank you to our parent volunteers and volunteers from Dow who came to support us. And most importantly, thank you to the kids who made it all possible! More pictures and stories to come soon. For now, ask your learner about their experience and enjoy these pictures.
Oct 03 2012
As our teeth project begins to evolve, students have become increasingly interested in other ways they will grow and change throughout our school year together. They started to talk about the ways they hope their mouth will be different, including more missing teeth and braces! I began to encourage them to think about other ways we may be different in June when we part ways for the summer and they had some interesting ideas:
-You will be smarter because the older you get, the more you know! Hikari
-Our voices will get deeper. Nathan
-Our hands and feet will be bigger. Journey
-Our hair will get longer and may change colors. Abigail
We are preparing for our expert dentist to visit on Friday, but are also investigating where we may go when we know all we can about out teeth!
Oct 03 2012
Tomorrow night at 6 p.m. there will be a meeting for anyone who can volunteer to help with the Carnival! Hope to see many of you there!
Oct 01 2012
Today, we got very exciting news… It is our turn to take care of the chickens! We have been waiting for this special opportunity.
We began by having a conversation about the chickens, the gardens, and our entire outside space. Christian and Journey had a lot to contribute to this conversation because they were in the class who had a project focusing on them last year! Students were interested in why the gardens were there, what they were used for, and our responsibility as caretakers!
Here are some pictures of our first experience outside. Tomorrow, we hope to find more eggs in the coop and have fresh feed to give o the chickens out of our hands!
Friends checking on the chickens.
Griffin with the chicken egg.
One of three of our chickens!
Sep 28 2012
This week we have been studying a reading strategy called chunking. This helps us identify common letter blends and smaller words within an unknown word. We have used many strategies to explore this decoding method all week. First, we cut apart words written on index cards based on chunks that we found. We used magnetic letters to pull apart words that we were unsure about to see what sight words we could find. We also read a book about a boy named Anthony who realized his name Included the word ant, so he looked for ants every where he went.
Encourage your child to look for common chunks when reading with them at home! This will make attacking unfamiliar words easy and help them feel successful as they read.
