Students continue to learn about Famous Americans in History, contractions in Word Study, and graphing for our Math Unit. Our new unit this week was in Zoology. We have concluded our study on fish and are now learning about mammals. It is the last classification of vertebrates that we have in our course of study. We...Read More
Students continue to learn about presidents for History, contractions in Word Study, and measurement for our Math Unit. Our new unit this week was in Zoology. We have concluded our study on fish and are now learning about mammals. It is the last classification of vertebrates that we have in our course of study. We borrowed...Read More
This week we continued our polishing skills by polishing a ceramic bunny and an egg. Our next geography unit was a world focus on the continent of Australia. The Estimation Jar was introduced for another mathematical concept of “making your best guess” about a quantity. In movement, we used our sense of touch to match...Read More
This week we started our Science unit on Simple Machines. Yesterday the students learned the concepts of force, work, distance, and lift by experimenting with various household objects–including a wall! We lifted books, pushed chairs, and did other work with simple machine knowledge. We’re also working on integers, cubing binomials, forming decimals, and squaring. Students...Read More
This week we studied contractions for Word Study. The students are learning how to write words as contractions and go from a contraction to two separate words. We continue to explore Simple Machines for Science and the Western States for Geography. Next week, the 2nd year students will have a separate lesson on the Western...Read More
This week we continued with our Colonial America simulation. In Science, we began our study of simple machines with the definition of work (W=FxD). In Writing, students are working on memoirs. In math, students work on square roots, fractions, and decimals. Finally, in Language, students are working on adverbial modifiers and types of adjectives. We...Read More
This week we celebrated the first day of Spring by making dirt pudding! The kindergarten students prepared chocolate pudding; each child used a mortar and pestle to crush cookies to make “dirt.” We used our practical life tonging skills to add gummy worms on top. On the art shelf, we added spring cutting activities as...Read More
This week we studied contractions for Word Study. The students are learning how to write words as contractions and go from a contraction to two separate words. We continue to explore Simple Machines for Science and the Western States for Geography. Next week, the 2nd year students will have a separate lesson on the Western...Read More
Happy Spring! We celebrated the first day of Spring by making dirt pudding with worms! Children helped make chocolate pudding, crushed Oreo cookies, and tonged worms. We also had many new units this week! We are learning about the human body in science and money in math. Human body study includes learning about our organs,...Read More
This week brought on many St. Patrick’s Day-themed works! We had a green-themed sensory bowl, sponge-painted a stencil Irish hat, and used a straw with paint to “blow” paint on a shamrock. In Practical Life, we continued learning about tools as we learned about using the ratchet and screwdriver. We also used tools such...Read More
