Gold Medal Readers
Our wonderfully creative Lower School librarian, Kirsten Murphy, introduced an Olympics theme for summer reading. Yesterday, the students gathered for the “Parade of Athletes” as Mrs. Murphy and...
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Creative Computing with Scratch
Scratch 2.0 is now out and it looks to be a very good upgrade. One of my goals this summer was to become more familiar with Scratch so that I could more effectively share it with my 4th graders. So, I...
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Celebrating the Hour of Code!
What a fun and exciting day we had on December 11th as the entire school celebrated the Hour of Code! Here is a snippet of what occurred that day. As usual, I planned far too much for 15 minute...
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What Makes a Good Leader?
Our third graders have been discussing bullying behavior and leaders – how leaders can be good or bad. Bad leaders try to get people to follow them in making poor choices that hurt others. Bullies can...
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Chinese: Sharing What We’re Learning!
Mrs. Zhang, our Lower School Chinese instructor, came to me a couple of weeks ago and asked how we could create something to share with parents so they could hear what their children were learning. She...
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Alphabet Alliterations
After reading a blog post by April Requard called Bring Literacy to Life with Technology! (A HUGE thanks to April for sharing this idea!). I thought this would be an excellent way to have our students...
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Another Amazing Alphabet Alliteration!
Mrs. Malone’s fourth graders came to the lab for their music/art/computer rotation last week and they went all out on the alphabet alliteration creation! (see previous post describing the activity)...
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1st Graders Demonstrate Different Ways to Show Numbers
After discovering a tweet from a student in Kristen Wideen’s class telling how the children were representing 2-digit numbers, I shared the idea with the 1st grade team. They were excited to have...
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Celebrating Picture Book Month!
Did you know that November is Picture Book Month? Mrs. Murphy and Mrs. Hebert, our librarians, issued a challenge to the Lower School to read picture books in an effort to beat last year’s goal of...
View ArticleTips for Using Seesaw
I’ve compiled information from the Seesaw website for our teachers and placed it in one place to make it easier to find basic information. The Seesaw developers have a wealth of information which can...
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