...out like a Lion

The end of March/Beginning of April definitely felt Lion-ish, but not because of the weather. This time of year, when one looks at the calendar and the "to-do" list, I often wonder how it's all going to come together. We only had two weeks of class before Spring Break was upon us! We squeezed in a couple of Sun Celebrations, another Great Lesson, "The Coming of Life", and a field trip, too!

Lily has completed States & Capitals and has moved on to some Word Matrix spelling (using prefixes and suffixes on a stem to build words)

Learning about Verbs using the new grammar box material

Working on Division Math facts

Using an Encyclopedia to find information on a topic of interest

An SRA is an excellent way to practice reading for information independently

The Second Great Story, "Life Comes to Earth"

Older students helped with the presentation! These lessons' purpose is to spark imagination while providing context and a foundation for future learning.

Multiplication with a double-digit multiplier!

Using the subtraction stripboard can be tricky! First, the minuend is isolated with a plain strip. Then the subtrahend is placed next to it on the board to solve for the difference.

Third graders learning about money and the decimal system

Follow-up work on the Second Great Lesson

Collaborative learning, finding information on a topic of interest.

More Second Great Lesson Follow-up

Working on the 7 cubed chain

Learning about adjectives and triangles using the Detective Adjective Game

More decimal system practice

These two discovered their raincoats match!

Checkerboard multiplication

Using the Peace Flower to understand the different aspects of awareness that contribute to true Peace

Matching plural nouns with their collective counterpart

Finding a poem to memorize

Learning about using "open syllables" to decode words

More independent SRA

Practicing the Six Cubed chain

He's got a lot going on! Pausing from one work to work on another... copying a poem.

Learning about nouns

They really didn't want anyone to see their work before they presented! 😂

Command cards (Grammar) with the verb, article, and noun.

Copying Poems

Using the Golden Bead Material to find fractions of an amount

Nora's sister and grandmother joined her parents for her Sun Celebration

Marking the passage of time by showing the relationship of the Earth to the sun.

The guest of honor gets to blow out the candle

Mila's turn to celebrate!

Mila's mom and younger brother

Dad, too, is helping to share pictures of Mila throughout her life.

If you don't know what a word means, your "best friend," the dictionary, can help you!

James has become an excellent writer of letters!

Using the Montessori beads to connect amounts to mone

Moving on from Golden Beads to the stamp game for addition. The stamp game is a much more abstract material, and we don't move to it until we are sure the children have a solid understanding of quantity

Upper El (and former LE) students Ellie and Claira visited to share information on their Habitat for Humanity Fundraiser

Using modeling clay to build models for research

Vowel team syllable search. Variable vowels tend to be the most difficult part of learning to decode English.

Practicing creating multisyllable words with the open syllable syllasearch

Using the Beads to practice multiplication math facts

Once math computations have been completed, they must be checked for accuracy. The children read their problems aloud to the teacher, who checks them with a calculator.

Learning all about the Interjection with the new grammar work!

Lincoln worked hard to try to make a cover for his journal, as it didn't wear well. When his work was complete, he found it humorous that the remaining cardboard looked like the numeral 6!

Before we knew it, Spring Break was here, along with an end to our germ/illness-free streak.