IPS/Butler University Laboratory School

Just a reminder: Family Night is tomorrow night, January 15th from 6-7pm at the school.  We will be creating a few permanent art pieces for our building.  Come prepared to have fun!

Kristien and Ruth are working well together in Math Workshop.

During Math Workshop, we reviewed a game.  (Every Friday is game day). Today we played tic-tac-toe.  To play the game you move paperclips over two numbers and then add the numbers up.  The player then finds their answer on the board.  The goal is to get 3 sets of 2 in a row.

Today, Kristien and Ruth were playing together in Math Workshop.  While the kids are allowed to use a dry erase boards to help with the addition, I challenged them to try mental computation together.  Kristien and Ruth were up for the challenge.  I went over to those two and realized that they were working together to solve each problem.  The two friends were helping one another and doing it so peacefully! One of the reasons we work together so much in Math Workshop is to encourage collaboration.  Today, Kristien and Ruth were a great example of this!

We have a new website :  60.ips.k12.in.us

Please check it out! There you can find information about our school demographics, our latest parent-teacher organization notes, events that are taking place, and more. We also have a link to this blog. Shortly, we will have a school calendar and lunch calendar available. Currently, we are still having some problems with our blog but we hope to correct those soon. We hope you enjoy the site and can refer friends who may be interested in our school!

We are coming to an end of our author study that we started last semester!  Over the past weeks the kids have wrote, critiqued, and revised (multiple drafts) their stories that were supposed to have similarities to the author they were studying.  We are now to the publishing phase!  Today, five of our students were able to publish their books.  Check out the covers below.  I know the kids are very excited about this.  I promised them we will be able to send them home in a few weeks after our classroom community is able to share and look through them!

Wyatt and Ruth’s books

William, Andrew, and Tylisha’s books.

After break, the k-1 team will be starting a unit on geometry. We need your empty boxes, containers, and cans to make this happen! Please send them in with your child on Monday, January 7. Thanks for your help!