Program Center- The Color RED While learning about the Chinese New Year during program center lessons, we noticed that many things in the Chinese culture are red… the Chinese flag is red, the envelopes filled with money for gifts are red, and the lanterns hung up for festivals are red! … Instructional Highlights – Program Center
Signing while Singing In Chorus and Drama class the students enjoy learning songs with sign language. We sing a song called Kindness is Free from our music education magazine called Music K-8. The students learn their songs more easily if there are motions to go along with them. Singing songs … Instructional Highlights – MUSIC
Chinese New Year As part of our current events, students in room 508 read and learned about Chinese New Year, also known as Lunar New Year! Using an online app called GetEpic.com, students read about the holiday. They read about how Chinese New Year is celebrated with foods, fireworks, parades … Instructional Highlights – Room 508
This week’s theme in 212 was all about hibernation and animals that sleep during the winter. Our students participated in fun learning activities all week long related to hibernation. We read some adventurous and fun books like “Hibernation Station” and the class favorite “Bear Snores On”. Our students also enjoyed … Instructional Highlights – Pre-School
Our current Science unit of study is titled, “The Sun and Earth.” The students were introduced to the unit by their classmate Bryce who volunteered to be the model of the sun, a huge star. Afterwards they learned facts about the sun by viewing a tap and read slide show … Instructional Highlights – Room 219
The students in room 217 have been enjoying the author Karma Wilson’s Bear book series. Using a book series helps students to recognize important elements of the story such as characters, setting, and plot through familiarity. Each Bear book includes Bear and his friends and takes place in his cave … Instructional Highlights – Room 217
In Room 220 the students are working on the concept of time. We started off with a book entitled, Measuring: Seconds, Minutes, and Hours, by Dr. Holly Karapetkova. Describing how long a second is can be hard for students to understand. The author describes it as being as quick as … Instructional Highlights – Room 220
In the 500 wing Health classes, students recently completed a two-week unit on emotions. Emotions are the way we feel. No one can know what I think or how I feel unless I tell or show him or her. My thoughts and feelings are important. Other people have feelings too. … Instructional Highlights – 500 WING HEALTH
In ART we have been studying the visual impact of objects in our everyday lives. Students are learning to respond to works of modern and contemporary art by comparing our created art to the works that inspired them. One of our first works of art we created was inspired by … Instructional Highlights – ART
Room 504 has been busy with their scientific explorations this semester. The class is working on a unit on living systems. Thus far, we conducted lessons to identify living vs. non-living things. We watched power points and various online resources to this topic. The class learned that living things move, … Instructional Highlights – Room 504
