The Neutrons worked on estimating yesterday. Thanks to all those who participated in our group estimation project…we wanted to see if taking the average of many guesses would get us close to the total number of items in a jar.
Art: Winter Bird Feeders
Kristin planned a great lesson for the Quarks, which Chris and I were able to lead with messy but fun success. We headed into the trees to look through the book Snow Birds about various birds in winter and then
Gym: Memory Exercise Workout
Many thanks to Dan and Judi for getting gym started with a freeze tag relay the Neutrons invented. Thanks to Sabrina for centering the quarks with a freeze dance warm-up. This week we built a workout together with a memory
Science: Winter Bird Study
We studied winter birds with quarks today. We looked at pictures of non-migrating Illinois birds and studied their calls and songs. We played a fun game of matching the sounds to the pictures of the birds. We discussed how the
Art: Apples & Bees
We discovered how well we knew each other with a silly game of Apples to Apples!In the game, the cards have words or phrases. One person picks up a green card. Then, all others anonymously submit a red card they
Writing Workshop: Introducing Peer Revision
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Art: Ice Spheres
Sorry for the late update, but this past week the Quarks read a charming story of mischievous Curious George wreaking havoc on the ski slopes and then we decorated ice spheres. First we sprinkled some (or gobs) of salt on top and
Art/Drama: Pictionary & Butterflies
We started with a game of pictionary. We used cards from our charades game. It was largely way easy but fun and silly. We then explored symmetry by drawing one half of a butterfly on orange paper. A friend then
STEM: Creative with Math?!
Yesterday we got creative with math! Whaaa?? Each student received 4 identical shaped and sized isosceles triangles (at least two sides are the same length). Our first challenge was to see how many different shapes they could make where each
Math/Science: Catching Snowflakes
Today we started off talking a little bit about how snowflakes are formed and how they are each unique shapes. We attempted to use black construction paper to catch and investigate the snowflakes. The fact that it wasn’t snowing didn’t