Happy New Year! It's great to be back at school after a relaxing and rejuvenating winter break! Our students and staff jumped right back into school routines and many new and exciting learning opportunities.
It's so great to see our students taking the lead in the "author's chair" as they read their writing and share their illustrations with their peers. Peers ask thoughtful questions and provide helpful feedback to one another in this setting.
This art project brings back memories of our author/illustrator visit by Ethan Long. Students are using a similar technique that Ethan used with iPads in which they take photos of their sketches then use a special app to clean up their drawings with smooth, crisp lines.
Australia, here we come (virtually)!! Second grade students prepared for a trip to Australia that included passports, boarding passes and virtual tour of Sydney.
In the LMC, with the Nearpod app, students were able to feel like they were actually walking through Sydney as they walked about the LMC and moved the iPad up and down and all around them. Lots of "oohs" and "ahhs" were heard during this experience!
A big part of what keeps students enthusiastic and engaged in learning is the sense of ownership and purpose they feel in the process. Here, students are discussing and working out how to sort and organize their classroom library.
It is a huge undertaking to sort and organize hundreds of books, but they were fully committed to this endeavor. The students cooperated and problem-solved through the entire process.
What a wonderful sense of pride and accomplishment they had! It's hard to have the winter blues when there are so many exciting things to learn and do at school!
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