Week 8

Can you believe we are already on week 8, and that’s its already almost October?! The 3rd and 4th graders worked on the last parts of their magnet unit, and had a chance to learn about compasses. Ms. Naomi spent time teaching everyone about how compasses work,...

What is Writing Workshop?

There are a lot of things we do differently in school than when I was in first grade.  One of these things is Writing Workshop.  I do not know about you, but there was a lot of sentence writing, sentence diagramming and the like when I was in early elementary school....

Fundations Week of 9/25

Hey all! This week in Fundations we are working on the letters O and G. The students are working on mastering writing lowercase o’s and g’s, starting on the plane line of their paper (the dotted middle line) and circling on the grass line (the bottom line)...
What are Work Places?

What are Work Places?

You may have heard from your student that they were able to take part in work places during math time, or that work places is their favorite part of math.  So what are work places?  What do they look like, and what is their purpose? Work places are structured games...