Animoto

Hi Everyone!

I have recently discovered this cool new app that allows the students and I to create videos and customize with music in order to share our learning. Enjoy!

http://animoto.com/play/BNQFI0mqqS0HmzL0HumfNA

Check out our class science video!

Dot Day

Thank you to everyone who came to see K-1 present Dot Day to our school for the very first time! It was so wonderful to have so many students excited to share their mark!

We continued to read more Peter Reynolds stories, had a great discussion about why it is so important to be yourself, and how you can positively share that personality with the world to make it a better place. We also got to tune in to hear Peter Reynolds read his story as well as to discuss the inspiration behind his stories. He credits his past teachers with inspiring him to be himself and advocate for creativity across the world.

Here are some links to more about Peter Reynolds, his project and what others have done!


http://www.peterhreynolds.com/dot/dot_activities.html

http://www.thedotclub.org/dotday/

http://www.peterhreynolds.com

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vpICaczeQ9o

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5mGeR4AQdM

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ZQMhdYJhsA

Worms! Caterpillars! Butterflies!

Whew! We have been busy here in K-1 studying all kinds of creepy crawlies from around Vermont. What began as a study of the Monarch Butterfly has now emerged into an examination of Tomato Worms, various moths, and other insects that students have been bringing in. Thank you so much to all of the families who have taken time out of their busy days to gather these specimens for our classroom! Students are really enjoying taking the time to compare and contrast the life cycles of different specimens, it has been really important for us to notice how long it takes these creatures to change and that they are not all the same!

First Few Days...

Here are some snaps from our first few days! We spent lots of time exploring outside and learning about what it means to be a scientist and make observations! We also spent a lot of time exploring with tools in our classroom, students spent a lot of time familiarizing themselves with resources such as books, twitter, SmartBoard and math manipulatives. We will continue to work on utilizing these resources this week!

Fun in K-1

Greetings!

We have had an awesome week so far! Students had their first experience with Twitter today, we tweeted our approval of a very cool baby stingray photograph! Students were very excited by the prospect of sharing our learning and ideas with the world.

The students and I also started our study of Monarch Butterflies today. We joined our partner K-1 class across the hall for some non-fiction read aloud about the life cycle of a butterfly. Students are very excited for this unit of study and had lots of great questions about the process of the life cycle. This is going to be a very exciting year of learning!

Wrapping Up

It has been a fabulous year in sixth grade! I will miss all of my wonderful students and the personality and talent they brought to school each day. Have a fantastic summer!

Fondly,

Ms. Davison

Sharing Writing!

Greetings!

One of the things we have been working on so diligently in sixth grade is the craft of writing. The past three weeks we have been studying poetry, we have sampled from greats such as Walt Whitman and Maya Angelou as well as Dr. Seuss and Eugene Fields. Students explored independently as well as in guided exposure many different styles and mediums of poetry, music was a quick favorite ranging in artists from Dierks Bentley and Beyonce to Billie Holiday and Bob Marley. Students experimented with creating their own versions of free verse, light verse, haiku, rhyme and many more! Here are some samples of students sharing their haikus!