I love using photography to document student learning. During our tree unit, I’ve been snapping pictures every time I get the chance. I’ve been taking pictures of the kids at work, observing, describing, and writing in their journals. One of our parents made a tree for our bulletin board and I thought it would be
There was a happy accident in kindergarten today. We were doing some explorations with trees, leaves, twigs, and pinecones, when the kids started asking about hidden seeds inside of pinecones. They could see the seeds in there, but they didn’t come out very easily. We tried digging a few out with a pencil, but
We’ve started our tree unit, in Kindergarten. I asked families to send tree related items to school, and boy did they come through! Many of the families in my school live on a few acres of property, so they helped do a bit of collecting for our class project. The kids were thrilled to bring
We’ve been working in our new science unit for the past few weeks. First graders in our district study from the FOSS kit on Solids and Liquids. We’ve started by exploring matter and properties. Everything in our world is made of matter. All matter takes up space and has mass. Matter can exist in 3
It all started with a reading lesson in Compare and Contrast today. When authors compare, they show how things are alike. When authors contrast, they show how things are different. We read about butterflies and moths, and then did some comparing and contrasting. It just happened (almost like I planned it this way) that we