Mandy's School News Research in Education
Today during our literacy focused curriculum meeting today we talked about wordless books and how they allow children to project their own imaginations on a story. Here are some key reading skills kids build when they read wordless books: Comprehension Print concepts (in English, we read top to bottom, left to right) Sequencing Inferring Predicting […]
Everyone had a great time at our Community Potluck and ate way too much…
Third Grade immigration timelines…
The third graders worked on solving different subtraction strategies on posters around their classrooms. They then analyzed their strategies to figure out which were the most efficient.
We had a great Town Hall today. We opened with an amazing skit performed by the AWESOME cast of some second grade actors and staff members. They gave us examples of people being compassionate AND people not being so compassionate. Afterwards we discussed all the ways in which we can be compassionate with each other. THEN, the INSPIRING Tigers (3rd grade) […]
The 10 Question Teacher Interview!! How long have you been working at The Co-op School? This is my first year working at The Co-op School. What’s your favorite part of being part of The Co-op School? My favorite part of being part of The Co-op School is I can teach the students about movement and […]
With our second and third graders…think they had fun.
Incredible odes from the pre-k Dragonflies:
Thanks to our amazing music teacher Dan and all the prek-2nd grade classes! The first annual Sing Sing was a success! Password: coop Bumblebees: https://vimeo.com/128342947 Butterflies: https://vimeo.com/128443209 Beetles: https://vimeo.com/128443757 Katydids: https://vimeo.com/128444250 Centipedes: https://vimeo.com/128448216 Sharks: https://vimeo.com/128449139 Dragonflies: https://vimeo.com/128338989 Everyone: https://vimeo.com/128449330
Wonderfully compelling OpEd about play and the academic push in early ed: http://www.nytimes.com/2015/05/17/opinion/sunday/let-the-kids-learn-through-play.html?ref=topics&assetType=opinion