Friday, March 8, 2013

A Small Bump in the Road

I really enjoy taking the time to create videos and other media to show you all what we've been doing in the classroom.  Unfortunately, the platform I've been using to share our learning in action with you is closing down in April.  I've been experimenting with some other blogs over the past week, but until I work out all the kinks and find the right fit, we'll have to stick to photos to recap the happenings of each week.  With that said, here are some shots from our week!

Mrs. Gross (and Froggy) stopped by to talk with us some more about friendship problems and shared some great ways to solve those problems:

We've started writing our own small moments stories, using all we've learned from our mentor, Donald Crews!  Students have been so excited to share their work in Author's Chair each day:


You may see your child jotting down story ideas in his/her Story Seeds notebook.  This is a tool for students to write down topics and details that they do not want to forget.  It should travel back to school with them each day so that they can use those story seeds to create a complete small moment story during writers' workshop.

We are continuing to study balance and motion in science.  Students created wheel systems with cups, and experimented with weight to see how fast/far they could get their wheel systems to go!




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