Build It To Break It

I'd like to highlight this photo because I feel it screams "well being" for our students. To spend the time carefully setting up dominoes for the joy of knocking them over. A healthy activity that promotes a healthy mindset, one that recognizes things aren't permanent, aren't precious, and that there is pleasure in the process and not just the end product. 

March 10th from 9:15-9:20am

Everywhere I turn, students are engaged in learning. Its up to us to recognize it, put a name it it, and use that instance as an opportunity to teach more. 

How Do You See 10?

We all see 10 in different ways at different times. I'm especially interested in those pizza looking slices. Seriously though, not only are the students constructing and deconstructing the number 10, they are experiencing me that we can get to the same place different ways. With their thinking, there is not a "right" or "wrong". There are multiple views and each has their merits. 

Using Familiar Resources

This student is playing letter/sound bingo on the computer and using an ABC book to help find that lower case g. 

"g...g...gate....G!"

Flipping Lids

What do you do to calm down when you flip your lid?

• bath
• sleep
• eat
• roll on the ground
• play

These kids know what they like. As adults, let's use that information to guide them from co-regulation to self-regulation. 

We read somewhere that an axle and a wheel HAVE to turn together. Research>>>Design.

The Auto Shop

Thanks to those who sent in supplies today. Tomorrow we tackle some of the difficulties with the axles and wheels. 

A Week At The Car Wash

This week we:

• communicated, negotiated, responded to one another
• problem solved what materials would sport building cars and a car wash
• researched to see what a car wash looked like
• sequenced events
• built using 2d and 3d shapes
• played designer/artist
• failed, innovated, and perservered
• moved our entire room around

Next week, please send in ONLY if you have already at home:

• water bottles, (especially caps)
• paper towel rolls (not toilet paper)
• kleenex boxes/cereal boxes (nut free)
• BIG straws 
• wooden dowel sticks (thin sticks)
• Milk Cartons (clean)
• Plastic jugs (e.g. 1 L like a Tropicana juice jug)
• scratched, unusable CDs/DVDs

Thanks!