Aug 30 2011
The IPS/Butler University Laboratory School was featured yesterday evening on WTHR’s Whats Cool in School. Check out the link to see our school in action.
http://www.wthr.com/story/15354399/ips-butler-join-forces-for-new-laboratory-school
Aug 24 2011
We are diving deeper into our reading, writing, and our mathematical problems solving…Here is a glimpse into our day!
Aaliyah and Heleria sort studio materials during free choice time.
Paris and Chloe use the computers during literacy stations.
La'Mount works with friends to build a block city during free choice time.
Aug 22 2011
Some of our friends noticed an interesting bug in our classroom today. We spent some time acting as scientists so that we could get to know more about our bug.
Some of our bug comments:
It climbs on the wall.
It blends in like a chameleon.
It has orange stripes.
It has circles on it legs.
Some of our friends found an interesting type of bug in our classroom today. They decided to put the bug into a jar.
Aug 17 2011
Leah shared a book about her trip to Georgia while her captivated classmates listened to her story.
Today was our first day getting to visit the studio. Students created wire creations, acted on the stage, and played in the sensory table. Upon returning to the classroom, we joined together in a math exploration of measurement. Each student took turns leaping as far as they could from a piece of tape we placed on the classroom floor. When everyone had done their best leap, we worked to figure out the best way to measure our leaps. It was decided that we needed to use a measuring tape. However, we faced a dilemma when our measuring tape was too short to measure our longest leap. OUr class worked together and decided to use a ruler and our measuring tape to measure the final leap. It was exciting to see our class work together as problem solvers.
I’m sorry to say that I didn’t get any pictures of our leaping math workshop. Ho
Friends used the rice to make it rain while singing "Rain rain, go away!"
wever, here are some other pictures from our day.
Aug 16 2011
Today was our best day yet in Kindergarten/1st Grade! We continued to talk about our classroom agreements, established a good choices jar, and became mathematicians when we did a sink or float experiment with foil boats. For our good choice jar, we filled a jar up with marbles and stones. Whenever I see that ALL of my friends are working together to make good choices (such as lining up quickly and quietly, coming to the rug without talking and efficiently finding a seat, or being good listeners when someone is talking,) we get to take a stone out of the jar. When all the stones are gone, our class voted to have an ice-cream sundae party! I see a lot of good choices in our future!
All friends counted together as we figured out how many pennies our foil boats could hold before sinking.
