We began with a video about the three types of essays (informative, persuasive, narrative) and tips on creating an outline. To practice,...

What if there were no trash or recycling services to help us deal with our waste? This week everyone brainstormed what their home and...

SPARROWS CLASS: We had a blast this week!  Our creative juices were flowing and we laughed and laughed! The lesson plan was to write a...

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,...

Math 1 We played more Domino War this week, but added a recording sheet that prompted us to think about equations and equivalencies,...

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,...

We started off the year talking about physics, tolerance, acceptance, nutrition, and endangered species. Phew! It's been a great...

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...

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

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...

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...

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...

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

We finally understand on a chemical level how we could possibly be made of star stuff! Our favorite force in the universe, gravity,...

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

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

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

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

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