Mind Your Ps and Os!
Our kindergarten students are learning how to write Ps and Os today. They found that Ps were quite easy, but Os were harder because they make many different sounds!
Similar Posts
Dramatic Improvement!
Our Grade 2 class just finished a unit on “Conflict Resolution”. One of the students returned from the weekend and submitted the following chart to his teacher, Ms. Marsh. According to his own “independent analysis” of his progress, he seems to have made a dramatic improvement in (sometimes) thinking about cooperating during this unit!
New Computer Lab
Our juniors and seniors were able to use our new computer lab for the first time yesterday with our new computers and wireless connection to the internet. Here you can see the kids learning about machines for a science activity through an online resource.
TIS on the Radio
We had an exciting morning today. Mr. Iwasaki, one of the station managers at Radio Tsukuba (84.2 FM), came to visit our Grade 3 class. The students interviewed him as an expert about radio for their unit of inquiry on “communication”. The students were all very excited and surprised when he invited the whole class…
Nature’s Classroom
Just before 11am, we heard some crows SCREAMING in our forest. We rushed outside to see what was happening, but we couldn’t tell from where we were standing. We found out later that a large hawk had captured a crow and all of the other crows were yelling at the hawk to get out of…
Self Portraits Ripped from Magazines
The junior and senior students did an art project where they ripped out images and colour swatches from magazines (no scissors allowed) and created self portraits. Click on the image below to see a slide show of the kids’ work.
Conflict Resolution
The Grade 2 class performed puppet shows that explained how to solve conflicts. This team had two characters who were fighting over a book. At first they decided to do “rock, paper, scissors” to see who would get the book, but then they decided that it would be even better if they read the book…