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I feel
that my role as a teacher is one of facilitator. Children are
encouraged to experience learning through a hands-on learning
environment and to research their questions. My role is to serve
as a mentor and to guide them through the research and discovery
process. I feel strongly that instruction should be activity-based, not
textbook driven, and it should engage students as they experience all
aspects of learning. I also feel that students should take
ownership of learning, therefore, students are taught to work in small,
flexible groups and to actively discuss and explore new ways of thinking
by sharing their thinking with others.
Listed
below are a few of our work samples and projects.
Please visit the Cornerstone link to see the exciting things
we have done in Reading and Writing Workshop.
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Student participate
in math stations. Here
the student is practicing two digit
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Students learn about the surface
of the moon and what
happens
when a meteor comes in contact
with the
surface of the moon.
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Students learn about 3-dimensional
shapes (solid
figures) as they construct
shapes from a net. Students
investigate
the names of the shapes, explore their
plane shapes, angles, vertices,
and number of edges.
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Students use manipulatives,
such as Lucky Charms
cereal,
to record data and construct
a pictograph.
Students then
record three observations about
their graph and then share it with a peer.
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Students explore life cycles by
first learning the
many parts of a seed.
Students integrating writing through
Science by explaining how the parts of
a seed
work together to help the seed
sprout into a new, baby
plant.
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Students use the surface of their
desk as a dry-erase
board. Here the
student demonstrates their understanding
of time and explains why time is
referred
to in quarter hours.
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Students participate in Internet based learning
activities. Here students participate
in the Oreo Cookie
project. Students stack Oreo cookies and then record how tall
their
Oreo cookie tower was by measuring in inches and
centimeters. Students then roll their
Oreo
and measure the distance traveled in yards and meters. The
results of student
work is then used to create a class
graph.
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Students explore the phases of the
moon by
recreating the eight moon
phases using Oreo cookies.
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Students explore addition as they
use the poem
Band-Aids by Shel Silverstein
to explore how many
band-aids the
character from the story used .
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Students explore constructing a
picture-graph
using M&M candies.
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Students listen to the story Jack and
the Beanstalk
and then explore
estimation using jellybean candies.
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Students explore the regions of Georgia
(Appalachian Plateau-sugar cubes,
Ridge & Valley -
Frito scoops,
Blue Ridge Mountains - Hershey Kisses,
Piedmont -
Trolley Rocks, Coastal - Wheat
Thins, and use blue school
glue to create
our state's marsh lands.
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