Sep
14
2011
Mrs. Bucher
Today was quite the day! Our puppeteer, Miss Debbi, came into school today, and she showed us a few different kinds of puppets including Trent. Our friends loved talking to Trent and was definitely a highlight of our time with Miss Debbi. We all made some puppets (with a moveable arm) and then did a little performance while Miss Debbi played some music. Thank you to the families that came in to enjoy this experience with us as well as help our friends with creating their puppets. It was really nice to see you all there.
Another exciting part of today was that today was the first day we had our Butler students in our class. Mr. Henderson, Miss Lauren, Miss Jessica, and Miss Jeffrey came into our room for the entire day today, and the children just adored them! They will be in our class every Wednesday (and occasionally on Monday) so I am sure that you will here about them.
Remember that tomorrow night at 6pm is our first Lab School Parent Meeting. We will be meeting to discuss what we want our Parent group to look like in our school. There is no childcare available so if you need to bring your child please provide a book or quiet activity that they can do while we meet.
A closer look at a puppet Madeline P. created!
Our friends working hard creating their puppets!
Trent!
Tevona, Makayla, and Saa sharing their puppets.
Sep
14
2011
Mrs. Clark
Today was an exciting day in our classroom! Our four Butler friends came! They will be with us on most Wednesdays and some Mondays. It is such a wonderful opportunity because the kids get even more support than a normal day. It was a great day of small group work and one on one work. We are very excited to have Miss Adams, Mr. Ward, Miss Goshert, and Miss Sjoerdsma in our classroom. Here are a few pictures of them working with the students today.
Miss Adams is working with a group during Literacy Stations
Miss Sjoerdsma is working with the "Write the Room" group during literacy stations.
Mr. Ward and Miss Goshert are guiding our students along at the computers.
Mr. Ward is once again guiding a few students at the computers.
Sep
14
2011
Mrs. Argus
Sascha labels a part of her airplane- "cockpit"
What a busy and exciting day we had today! This morning, we were greeted by our four Butler Block A practicum students who were eager to help and work with us. We enjoyed getting to know them throughout the day and working with them. Today, we put our airplane plans into action and started building our sculptures. We talked about what materials we wanted to use and how we would try to carefully and thoughtfully follow our plans. We also discussed how our planes are a work in progress and we will revisit them throughout the week to add additional parts and details.
- “Look, its where the luggage goes!” – Journey
Sep
13
2011
Mrs. Bucher
Good evening,
The anticipation for the visiting puppeteer is just growing by the minute. Every adult that walks in the room is the puppeteer (the children think). Today we listed some questions that we have for the puppeteer….”How do you make it move? What can you use to make the puppet? How do you decide what your show will be?” are some of the questions that the friends asked.
If you are free and would like to come in you are more than welcome to come in and help the children make puppets tomorrow from 11:15-12:15.
Below are a couple pictures of the train set and kerplunk (two new items in our room) that the children really enjoy playing!
Our new train set!
Jett enjoying Kerplunk!
Sep
13
2011
Mrs. Argus
Aidan takes his time and adds lots of details to his airplane.
- Kaitlyn labels her airplane and uses our chart as a guide.
This morning our class started a discussion on what we would like to accomplish in doing our airplane project. Most friends expressed a desire to build and create planes which we have already seen evident in the past month. I shared that I would like our class to create some sculptures of airplanes to show our knowledge of the different airplane parts and functions. The kids were excited but cautious. “How big will it be?” said David. “Once I build an airplane as big as that table!” exclaimed Lucas. I suggested we make a plan like a real engineer who might create an airplane. We looked at graph paper that an engineer or architect may use and talked about how to draw our plans for our plane sculpture. Zacharyah came up with a great suggestion to help our drawings take flight. “We should look at the books to get airplane ideas!” The plans are so detailed and elaborate, many of the kids also labeled each part of their plane using our new airplane terms.
We have also been enjoying a new materials in class, the gears. The kids have begun creating towers and different types of vehicles.
I also feel compelled to share my favorite part of the day. During math workshop, Aidan was having some trouble getting started with our math problem. We are starting grouping (early multiplication) and some of the kids were quite frustrated. He exclaimed, “I don’t know what to do! Ahh!” Without the skip of a beat, David, who was sitting next to him leaned over and said, “I can help you!” He then began explaining to Aidan how he had set up the problem and guided Aidan as he began illustrating the problem. I was so impressed with both friends for working together. This is truly an amazing class.
