Thursday, December 13, 2012

This Week in Third Grade

Working with map grids and scales:



Students shined while teaching their classmates:


Teaching about King Tut and Egyptian ink 
Products from a Jim Henson lesson
A friendship lesson exhibits thoughtful planning with questions written on slides in advance
Demonstration during a martial arts lesson

Tuesday, December 11, 2012

Happy Hanukkah! Celebrating Our Learning

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3rd Grade

Playing silent speedball with spelling bee words
Teaching her peers how to be an effective babysitter using a prezi to display the information

Well-thought class management: diaper, pacifier, and bottle small groups

An interactive smartboard activity

4th Grade

America's five regions unit:

Practicing latitude and longitude
Exploring elevation, population, and rainfall maps

The last of students' creative lessons:

Calling on student volunteers to demonstrate their learning about the Great Depression
 
Example signs from the Great Depression 


5th Grade

First Americans' Seven Regions Museum:

Wrapping up the students' literature-based lessons:

A wonderful teacher presence during her Mardi Gras lesson
An engaging ball-throwing review of the student's Black Panther Party lesson
Just-the-right amount of technology in a lesson about centaurs

Posted from my iPhone

Tuesday, December 4, 2012

Today's Student Lessons

A few highlights from today's lessons:
A fourth grader teaching us about earthworms with a live prop

A fourth grade lesson about Atlantis with a Lego model that he constructed

Friday, November 30, 2012

Learning from Each Other

A fifth grader's student-centered Pearl Harbor lesson
A fifth grader's Mount Everest Lesson
Making the most of our learning environment
A third grader's Frankenstein lesson
He created an interactive lesson plan
Assessing his students
Teaching third grade how to sew
Practice makes perfect!
 
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