This is one of my favorite pictures of the year! I took it during independent reading time (a time where kids pick books out for themselves). It shows what voracious readers the Navigator's are, and also how comfortable they feel being themselves at Seabury!This week we started two new book groups; one group is reading "The Hobbit," by J.R.R. Tolkien, and the other group is reading "The Westing Game," by Ellen Raskin. Book groups, also called literature circle, are a great way to discuss characters, plot and other literary devices.
This term we are studying technology and simple machines in science class. In the activity pictured here, we are building and identifying simple machines (levers, pulleys, wheel & axles, gears, inclined planes...) and then building compound machines (two or more simple machines working together).
In another activity, students worked to learn new vocabulary words by drawing a small sketch to go with each one. Chances to act out words or draw small sketches can serve as memory hooks for students. This can be especially helpful because many words have more than one meaning. This design belongs to M.Y. Way to go M.Y!
