Before vacation, students created a wall online where they placed some of their wishes…. The website, wallwisher.com, is a place where students log on and leave a quick “sticky note” stating something they are wishing for. This site is new…
Heart Maps
Well, we’re new at this – but the kids did a great job of creating Heart Maps for Valentine’s Day. Their rough copy will go into writing journals, and their final copies will come home soon! I can’t believe how…
Poll Everywhere
I keep finding the coolest stuff out there on the Interweb!! I don’t know if this will work on our site – but give it a try and vote!! Hmmmmm… Well, I’m not sure if the options are showing up…
Heart Mapping
Tomorrow, we will be creating Heart Maps in writing as part of our Valentine’s Day celebration. Today, I asked students to tell me the things they know I care about… Every student had something to share, and it’s clear they…
Book Sale Update
What a great day we had today! Our friends from the Rotary Club came to talk to all of us in the Family Pod first thing this morning. We sang our Family Pod Song, and then listened as we heard…
Arts Alive!
Arts Alive On the recent field trip to the Cotuit Center for the Arts, students saw some wonderful works from over 50 Cape Cod artists. In our Arts Alive presentation, we learned about one of those artists—Bill Evaul, whose white-line…
Wallwishers…
If you could make a wish for someone else in your life, or in the world, what would it be??? Visit our Wallwisher site and leave a sticky note for everyone to read. The link to this site is also…
Well, We Wanted to Name the Planets….
……..and now we’ve named them all….. Today in class, we discovered two methods for remembering the planets. We decided that we would include Pluto in our memorization because even though Pluto is no longer a planet, it is still an…
Oreo Moon Phases
Today was fun!!!! Each student was given 4 Oreo cookies with the instructions to use their science notes and create a model of the Moon’s phases. Though at first, they all looked to me for “how” to do it —…
Starry, Starry Night
We had another SUPER Arts Alive! session with Mrs. Evans and Mrs. Hebner – the students learned all about Vincent Van Gogh! We watched the following videos: Starry, Starry Night Van Gogh Self Portraits Classical Tribute Observed the following piece…