1st grade students in Mrs. Ward's class are working on number words.
To enhance learning, they did a partner activity. One kid rolled a dice and both kids wrote the number word for the rolled number. It was super fun!
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"In the best of times, the arts create connection, community, belonging, and joy. In the worst of times, the arts create all of that and more—and most of all, the arts create hope." - Americans for the Arts
Join Mrs. Ratcliff's art class at Westside and find out why they like art.
https://youtu.be/ezNHa9ISof0
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2nd grade students participate in a STEM activity. STEM activities are a great way to stretch students' brains and increase problem-solving and critical thinking skills!
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Fun Buckets! It's pretty much their second favorite time of the day - after recess, for Mrs. Geranen's class at Catlyahah.
The kids get to pick an activity to work on until Rise and Shine begins in the morning.
This year Rise and Shine is presented through a Google Meet projected on our Smartboard in each class. This procedure allows the site to continue with its Great Expectations model and remain classroom cohorts.
4th grade students were surprised by a book tasting! Mrs. Schell and Mrs. Harrison's classes spent time perusing books of different genres to learn more about each genre and identify their genre preference.
Which genre of book do you prefer?
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Aloha from Lantow Field! Students were so excited to be back in the student section for Friday night lights!🌺🏈🌊
"I don't know about everyone else, but I really loved lunch and recess because it was an opportunity to get carried away with your imagination." -Dichen Lachman
Everyone loves outdoor recess!!!
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3rd grade students in Mrs. Millsap's class had quite the experience in their "Genre Café," where they had the opportunity to explore different genres of books in small groups to understand better both the genre classification and which genres they might like best.
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5th graders in Mrs. Tidwell's class had fun with a STEM activity to see who could stack pencils the highest!
We love building STEM activities into lessons here at Claremont because it allows our students to think creatively and critically about solving a problem.
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Things are heating up over in Mrs. T's Pre-K classroom at Westside! These students are working hard in small groups during center time. Center work for these friends included shape matching, counting 1-10, ABC matching, magnet play, Lego train, and bristle blocks. Students also used colored pencils to decorate their names. They were so proud of being able to recognize their name or some of the letters!
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5th grade is studying the grueling voyage from England to Jamestown. During the month voyage, one of the many hardships was the lack of fresh water and food on the ships so that a meal could consist of dried cracker type food, hardtack, and dried meat. The 5th grade classes at Roosa were trying out what that would be like, WITHOUT taking a drink of water. The students had four unsalted saltines and some beef jerky. The activity was a great way to understand what the colonists had to endure.
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Kindergarten students spend time in centers working on learning through play. Learning through play is one of the best ways for a child to develop a sense of adventure and nurture their imagination.
What do you think these Kindergarten students are imagining as they play?
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Mrs. Beasley's 3rd grade class read the book, My Mouth is a Volcano. This is a story about waiting your turn and maintaining self control. After reading the book the students made a journal entry about how they can control themselves before they ERUPT!!
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Students in art class at WRJH are working hard on their Cubist self-portraits. In Cubist artwork, objects are analyzed, broken up, and reassembled in an abstracted form. Instead of depicting objects from a single viewpoint, the artist depicts the subject from many perspectives to represent the subject in a greater context.
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Procedures are some of the most important things taught - all year - but especially at the beginning of the year and these first graders are rocking their procedures!
Ask your student about some of their classroom procedures. You might be surprised to find out that some of them are similar to the ones you use in your own home!
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Mrs. Mann's class at Roosa enjoyed some SLIME TIME for a science lesson. They learned about problem-solving, measurements and just had a fun time.
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Westside Elementary enjoys celebrating students. One of their favorite ways to let students know they see them doing the right thing is to recognize them with character awards. Teachers see something they admire in a student's behavior; they write it down and then display a photo of the student and their recognition proudly on their Hero Wall!
The Hero Wall has become popular with the students, so we have decided to share it with you. Look at all these students we have to brag about on our first Westside Hero Wednesday! Not all heroes wear capes; some wear backpacks!
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What are you reading on National Read a Book Day? Post a pic in the comments!
Curl up and indulge in your favorite hobby, guilt-free. Bringing new worlds to life, books enlighten us and transport us on exciting adventures. They can challenge our perspectives on the human experience in ways unmatched by other media. In a world deluged by technology, National Read a Book Day encourages us to silence the noise and turn the pages for a while.
Mrs. Ward's class at Catalayah went to the library just in time to check out books before the weekend.
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Second graders are learning about the differences between Fiction and Non-fiction this week. As a fun activity with their fiction read-aloud, Edwina the Emu, students created Emu's of their very own!
Aren't they creative?
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