In Language Arts This Week
We began with a video about the three types of essays (informative, persuasive, narrative) and tips on creating an outline. To practice,...
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Austin Rising School
- Jan 24, 2020
- 2 min
In Main Lesson This Week
What if there were no trash or recycling services to help us deal with our waste? This week everyone brainstormed what their home and...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 11, 2019
- 1 min
It's Journalism time!
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...
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Austin Rising School
- Feb 7, 2019
- 2 min
What's Happening In Math This Week
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,...
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Austin Rising School
- Oct 18, 2018
- 2 min
What's Happening This Week in Math
Math 1 We played more Domino War this week, but added a recording sheet that prompted us to think about equations and equivalencies,...
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Austin Rising School
- Oct 18, 2018
- 1 min
What's Happening This Week in Main Lesson
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,...
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Austin Rising School
- Oct 18, 2018
- 1 min
2018-19 School year is off to a great start!
We started off the year talking about physics, tolerance, acceptance, nutrition, and endangered species. Phew! It's been a great...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 23, 2018
- 1 min
What's Happening In Main Lesson This Week
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...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 23, 2018
- 2 min
What's Happening In Math Class This Week
Oak class This week, we solved the story problems the kids wrote last week. They were two-digit adding and subtracting problems. Our work...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 13, 2018
- 2 min
What's Happening In Math Class This Week
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...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 12, 2018
- 1 min
What's Happening in Main Lesson this week
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...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 8, 2018
- 1 min
What's happening this week in Kids of Kindness
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...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 8, 2018
- 2 min
What's happening in Math class this week
Oak Class We started a multi-day investigation of packages and parcels. Each present in the story problems is represented by a square,...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 8, 2018
- 2 min
What's happening this week in Main Lesson
We finally understand on a chemical level how we could possibly be made of star stuff! Our favorite force in the universe, gravity,...
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Austin Rising School
- Apr 2, 2018
- 2 min
What's happening this week in Main Lesson
Tuesday was all about gravity! First, we defined gravity and discussed how the sun keeps all of our planets from hurling off into the...
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Austin Rising School
- Mar 9, 2018
- 1 min
What's happening in Main Lesson this week?
We learned about Navajo code talkers and how they helped the Americans win the war in the Pacific. Students wrote an in-class essay ...
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Austin Rising School
- Mar 9, 2018
- 1 min
What's happening in Math class this week?
Oak class We did another organizing activity supporting the development of place value, unitizing chunks of ten, and trading up...
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Austin Rising School
- Feb 22, 2018
- 1 min
What's Happening This Week In Kids Of Kindness
This week we explored gratitude. We all say thank you when we receive something, whether it is something material or a nice complement. ...
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Austin Rising School
- Feb 22, 2018
- 2 min
What's Happening This Week In Math
Oak class This week I briefly introduced the concept of multiplication as we discussed groups of 2s. We explored how many shoes there...
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Austin Rising School
- Feb 22, 2018
- 2 min
What's Happening This Week In Main Lesson
This week we finished our Lichtenstein projects. If you look closely, you can see the Ben-Day dots that Lichtenstein used to simulate...
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