Classroom Updates

Hi all,

Here are a few classroom updates:

1. Our class will be creating the bulletin board for April's Half School Meeting on "celebrating differences." Student's had a ton of great ideas....it was hard to choose which direction to go in! We tried our best to find a way to merge many of the ideas together. Stay tuned!!

2. A few weeks ago, students took a practice PARCC ELA test where they were asked to read a story and a poem, answer multiple choice questions and identify a theme in each of the texts. We have already started to use this assessment as a learning opportunity! Yesterday each table group was given one multiple choice question to work on. The group needed to identify the correct answer and one strategy that could help them be successful in answering the question. After, each group chose two representatives to share their thinking. We compiled the list of strategies so that we can refer to in the future when we are answering multiple choice questions. Next week we'll take a closer look at the open response.

3. Yesterday, after briefly being interrupted by a fire drill, we watched a presentation from the Shrewsbury High School Robotics Team! The team brought the robot they built and discussed which simple machines they used and how the simple machines helped the robot to do some pretty amazing things!

There is lots of happy learning happening over here in Room 327 :)
Miss Leifer