Math 1 This week we explored combinations to add to certain values.  For example, 7 can be thought of as 0+7, 1+6, 2+5, 3+4 4+3, 5+2, 6+1, and 7+0.  We saw...

To start off our unit on world religions, I asked the kids what they know about 6 of the world's major religions: Judaism, Hinduism, Taoism, Buddhism, Chr...

Our focus this week was our moon and the planets.  We watched some video's about the moon's phases. Then we did an activity with styrofoam and flashlights ...

Oak class This week, we solved the story problems the kids wrote last week. They were two-digit adding and subtracting problems. Our work focused on creating...

Oak class Tons of fun in class this week as we wrote, drew, and cut-and-pasted story problems for addition and subtraction of two-digit numbers. The basic co...

We started our week by drawing a comic strip to teach others what we learned about black holes.  They are hilarious!  Then we moved into exploring why the ...

This week was all about respect. We learned about what is respect. What it looks like and what it sounds like. We played a fun game of simon says respect sty...

Oak Class We started a multi-day investigation of packages and parcels. Each present in the story problems is represented by a square, and each box of 10 pre...

Tuesday was all about gravity! First, we defined gravity and discussed how the sun keeps all of our planets from hurling off into the universe and how the...

We learned about Navajo code talkers and how they helped the Americans win the war in the Pacific.  Students wrote an in-class essay comparing how the the ...

Oak class We did another organizing activity supporting the development of place value, unitizing chunks of ten, and trading up (regrouping). We each counted...

This week we explored gratitude. We all say thank you when we receive something, whether it is something material or a nice complement. But do we really know...

Oak class This week I briefly introduced the concept of multiplication as we discussed groups of 2s. We explored how many shoes there would be based on a cer...

This week we finished our Lichtenstein projects. If you look closely, you can see the Ben-Day dots that Lichtenstein used to simulate comic strips and newsp...