Exploring with Shapes.

Today in the hallway, children were exploring with shapes. There were example designs made out of shapes for the children to use. The children were able to explore with shapes to discover which ones they needed to make the design. The children could design their own picture to explore with shapes.

"What shape is this, will it fit?" - Ayrez

"What shape is this, will it fit?" - Ayrez

"This is my pineapple." - Brody

"Will it fit here?" - Alijah

Teaching Strategies Gold:

Objective #21 Explores and describes spatial relationships and shapes 

Mrs. Schrank

1/26/2016

Balancing Fun!

Today in the Indoor Movement Room, teachers put out the spooner boards for children to explore balancing with.  The students were very excited to see these out today.

"Look! I balanced!" - Lila Beau 

"Did you know you could sit on these?" -James

"I'm skateboarding!" -Carter P.

Andre helps Tegan get on the balance board.

Teaching Strategies Gold:

Physical Objective #5: Demonstrates Balancing Skills 

Miss Sewell

January 25, 2016

New Week, New Fun Activities!

Last Friday, the staff and 409 students worked hard to change up the Oak Room. The children were very excited about all of the new activities today!

At the clay table, we added animals for the children to make foot prints in the clay.

"I've seen some of these animals at the zoo!" - Brennan

At the community art project table we have been manipulating different sized wires. We added pipe cleaners and beads for the children to string onto the wires. 

"This wire is harder to bend than the other ones." - Owen

At the water color table we switched the object to a blue bird sitting in a nest.

Teaching Strategies Gold:

Objective #33 Explores the Visual Arts

Ms. McArthur

1-25-16

Relay Races!

This afternoon, we finished the week off with some relay races in Pod A. Mr. Jonaitis lead us in using 3 different items for our races. We started off with walking with balloons between our knees, moved onto balancing eggs on spoons, and finished off with some time on the scooters. 

Teaching Strategies Gold:

Physical Objective 4: Demonstrates Traveling Skills

Miss Hild

January 21, 2016

Where are the Shapes?

Today in the CDLL, Mohammad and Carter J. used a map of the school to find the hidden shapes around the school. The map showed outlines of the classrooms with the locations of the shapes. Along the way, they received help from a few other students and showed the other children what they were finding.

"It's in the hallway!" - Mohammad

"It's over here!" - Makenna

Teaching Strategies Gold:
Objective 28: Uses tools and other technology to perform tasks.

Ms. Vedder
01/21/16

Feeding the Birds!

Today Mrs. Nims' and Mrs. Bristley's small groups came together to read a story and create bird feeders from pine cones gathered earlier in the school year to hang outside on the playground.

 "Mine has seeds."-Makayla

"Their bellies are going to be full."-Helena

"It smells good. It feels like cream."-Pelumi

Teaching Strategies Gold:

Objective 25: Demonstrates knowledge of the characteristics of living things.

-Ms. Peters

1/20/16

I scream, You Scream, We All Scream for Ice Cream!

Today outside children worked together to run an ice cream shop for students walking and sledding by their storefront, this went on for nearly the duration of outside time. Tommy worked as the ice cream maker, while a few other classmates served as helpers and faithful customers. Together the students developed the flavors that Tommy would serve. "Dinosaur", lemon, vanilla, and candy flavors were available, but by far the student's most requested flavor was, "Dinosaur". Snow was passed out to represent the ice cream and seconds were served!

 

 "What kind do you want? This is dinosaur." -Tommy

 

"Mmm, vanilla!" -Hailee M.

 

"My favorite is Candy, but what are you going to get?" -Lily

Teaching Strategies Gold: 

Objective 14: Engages in sociodramatic play

 

Miss Strobel

1/20/16