Classroom Notes
Monday, March 1, 2010 - 2:48pm
1 hour 15 min ago
Tuesday, February 23, 2010 - 4:35pm
Tr. Jill's class began the day by adding names for 100 to a giant name collection box. The students also used their estimation skills to guess which jar held 100 things. The tricky answer: all three jars had 100 things. The class spent time discussing why the different collections of 100 things were different sizes.
The students then wrote their names in a blank 100 grid, one letter in each box. By coloring each letter of their names a different color, the students quickly noticed some patterns. The five letter name pattern quickly jumped out to all the class!
The class then met the other first and second graders and the kindergartners in the cafeteria for a shared 100 snack. Each student counted out ten of ten different foods (raisins, cheerios, goldfish, etc.) until reaching 100 pieces of food!
After snack, everyone moved to the gym to for 100 exercises, once again emphasizing base 10 by doing ten reps of 10 different movements. When they left the gym to return to the classrooms, each child counted 100 steps to see where they ended.
In the afternoon, the two first and second grade classes visited each other to see everyone's collection of 100 things. The students enjoyed sharing sharing their collections with each other.
Tr. Jill's class ended the day with a 100th day story: Jake's 100th Day of School by Lester Laminack.
21 min 13 sec ago
Friday, February 19, 2010 - 10:37am
2 hours 52 min ago
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 2:30pm
Students in Pre-K are flying high during their Transportation theme! Their loft has been transformed into a jet after many hours of painting and gluing.
The children created a cockpit thanks to the expertise of Tr. Regina's husband who lent them charts and a variety of authentic instruments.
3 days 4 min ago
Friday, February 5, 2010 - 12:13pm
First and second grade students performed their re-worked nocturnal animal version of Are You My Mother? to an enormous crowd of families and students at Gathering.
22 min 51 sec ago
Tuesday, February 2, 2010 - 3:18pm
The third/fourth grade class and the kindergarten class teamed up once again to organize a food collection for the emergency food cupboard in Lansdowne. Kindergarten students made use of the cans they collected for some interesting math activities before making the delivery. They used the USDA food pyramid to categorize each of the cans into separate food groups and then graphed them on a giant cloth grid.
The two classes then bundled up and delivered the food to the food cupboard.
3 hours 59 min ago
Sunday, January 24, 2010 - 6:33pm
Tr. Jill's 1/2 graders have been exploring the parts of speech. This week they learned about adjectives.
On Monday the class defined adjectives: a word that describes a noun. Together the students listed a few nouns and several adjectives that could describe those nouns.
On Tuesday each student chose two objects in the classroom to describe. They jotted a few adjectives that described each object on a post-it note and then stuck the note to the object.
The classroom was soon dotted with pink post-its.
In the afternoon, the class used adjectives in Writing Workshop. Once again, the students chose two objects in the room to write about. This time, in sentence form, the students wrote riddles about their objects, using several adjectives. Here are some examples of their riddles:
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I am many colors. I am small. I am about 3 inches long. I am made of wax. What am I?
I am a crayon.
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I have a ladder with lots of pillows, long pillows and small pillows. I am brown. People climb up and down me on my ladder. What am I?
The Loft.
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I am pink. I am used for controlling you. I am inside you. I help you think. I am mushy. What am I?
I am your brain.
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I am on the ceiling. I am long. I help you see. People turn me on and off. What am I?
I am a light.
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