Graphing Centers

by | May 28, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, Kindergarten, math

In Math class, our youngest students have been working on developing and reading pictographs and bar graphs. We made several graphs from scratch and analyzed existing graphs. This helps the students to identify things like the most, the least and things that have the...

Math Centers – Place Value 2018

by | May 26, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, math

For most of the second part of this school year, the youngest children have been working on two digit place value. We started off counting up from the bottom of our board and looked at the numbers from 0-9. Of course they were all familiar with those numbers. Then, we...

Fractions

by | Apr 27, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, grade 3, math

A small group of students in first, second and third grade explored fractions using multiple representations of ONE.  With parquetry pieces they considered the fractional parts of a hexagon. In the process they learned that the denominator means how many equal parts...

Butterfly class

by | Apr 15, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten, science

In January, we continued our butterfly class. As always it allowed for wonderful conversations on big ideas. One day we began to talk about butterflies, discussing that they don’t stay around to nurture their young. We talked a little about the difference...

Electricity

by | Apr 7, 2018 | 2017 - 2018, grade 1, grade 2, Kindergarten, science

The youngest students have recently begun a unit on electricity.  We follow the same format we used for our Butterfly class.  We meet once a week for 50 minutes.  For the first half hour we read and talk.  For the next 20 minutes we have a studio time where we break...