* march 9: museum visit to the new york historical society
* march 10-12: ashoken overnight trip
* march 15-16: spring conferences
* march 27-april 6: spring break!!
* april 10: community day
* april 26-28: ela test
* may 5-7: math test
Sunday, February 28, 2010
Wednesday, February 24, 2010
"Our class is having a green good day!" -Kofi
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing break. I visited Buenos Aires and it was REALLY hard to leave :) But, it's been nice to come back to all of the cool projects happening in our room. We also have a wonderful, wonderful student teacher- Sami. She is studying at Sarah Lawrence and we have all really enjoyed getting to know her.
The year is really moving along. In a couple of weeks we will be going to overnight camp at Ashoken. Then, the following week is conferences. And another break at the end of the month. Whew! That's a lot! Here are some of the exciting things we've been up to...
SOCIAL STUDIES:
We have been deepening our understanding of activism, thinking about spreading awareness and fundraising. Students are working on one of 2 projects: our Sister School in Darfur and our Green Roof. The Sister School group has developed catching campaign slogans and is working on applying these slogans to bottles for coin donations. They plan to visit the classrooms with a short presentation about our Sister School in Darfur and leave them with a bottle for coins- give change. make change. darfur dream team. (one of the slogans.) They are also planning a fundraiser. It was in the works for before break, but the snow day through things off. So, stay tuned! The Green Roof group has been working on spreading awareness by creating arrows pointing upwards and some pointing in the direction of our room. They are almost ready to post them. Others have been creating bracelets and necklaces with beads they make out of magazine strips. They are really quite amazing. If you get a chance, stop in to take a look.
We have had a collaboration with Nancy's class all year, working on Green Design. We have stayed in our 3 groups- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle- from our trip to the Science Barge. The groups have experimented with green designs, such as creating beautifully intricate snowflakes out of magazine paper coated with gesso to make them a little stronger.
At the Science Barge, we were all excited by the window farm and have been wanting to make our own. We have a grant on donorschoose.org that is almost funded. We are hopeful we can get some of the big structural parts of the window farm done during Community Day, and have the students finish up the rest. As stated on the website, "Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials." Check out this link for some pics and info on the window farm project: http://www.windowfarms.org.
MATH:
As you may have heard by now, we have transitioned out of "math streaming," and we will be doing math together as a class. This has allowed for some exciting inter-disciplinary work. In planning for our Darfur Day fundraiser, students worked on figuring out how many beads were needed for bracelets and how many were needed for necklaces. This lead them to see how many necklaces and how many bracelets they could make with the beads already completed. Then, they planned for how many more beads were needed so they could have enough bracelets and necklaces to sell. Another example is the group of students who have been creating arrows were measuring the length of the hallways to plan for the number of arrows and spacing. Hanging on the bulletin board outside is their cool diagram of the halls with all of the measurements.
Students have independent reading and writing projects they are working on. They are doing some great things, so I will include more info on that next time! If you have not returned the forms for Ashoken yet, please get them in ASAP. Remember, if you are sending any medicine, even something small like cough drops, it needs a doctor signature. Conference sign-ups will be coming home later in the week. I will email the form for those of you that would like to e-sign up. We will also be taking a trip to the New York Historical Society next week, March 9th, so a permission slip will be going home this week.
As always, let me know if there are any questions or ideas.
Take care,
Lauren
Welcome back! I hope everyone had a relaxing break. I visited Buenos Aires and it was REALLY hard to leave :) But, it's been nice to come back to all of the cool projects happening in our room. We also have a wonderful, wonderful student teacher- Sami. She is studying at Sarah Lawrence and we have all really enjoyed getting to know her.
The year is really moving along. In a couple of weeks we will be going to overnight camp at Ashoken. Then, the following week is conferences. And another break at the end of the month. Whew! That's a lot! Here are some of the exciting things we've been up to...
SOCIAL STUDIES:
We have been deepening our understanding of activism, thinking about spreading awareness and fundraising. Students are working on one of 2 projects: our Sister School in Darfur and our Green Roof. The Sister School group has developed catching campaign slogans and is working on applying these slogans to bottles for coin donations. They plan to visit the classrooms with a short presentation about our Sister School in Darfur and leave them with a bottle for coins- give change. make change. darfur dream team. (one of the slogans.) They are also planning a fundraiser. It was in the works for before break, but the snow day through things off. So, stay tuned! The Green Roof group has been working on spreading awareness by creating arrows pointing upwards and some pointing in the direction of our room. They are almost ready to post them. Others have been creating bracelets and necklaces with beads they make out of magazine strips. They are really quite amazing. If you get a chance, stop in to take a look.
We have had a collaboration with Nancy's class all year, working on Green Design. We have stayed in our 3 groups- Reduce, Reuse, Recycle- from our trip to the Science Barge. The groups have experimented with green designs, such as creating beautifully intricate snowflakes out of magazine paper coated with gesso to make them a little stronger.
At the Science Barge, we were all excited by the window farm and have been wanting to make our own. We have a grant on donorschoose.org that is almost funded. We are hopeful we can get some of the big structural parts of the window farm done during Community Day, and have the students finish up the rest. As stated on the website, "Window Farms are vertical, hydroponic, modular, low-energy, high-yield edible window gardens built using low-impact or recycled local materials." Check out this link for some pics and info on the window farm project: http://www.windowfarms.org.
MATH:
As you may have heard by now, we have transitioned out of "math streaming," and we will be doing math together as a class. This has allowed for some exciting inter-disciplinary work. In planning for our Darfur Day fundraiser, students worked on figuring out how many beads were needed for bracelets and how many were needed for necklaces. This lead them to see how many necklaces and how many bracelets they could make with the beads already completed. Then, they planned for how many more beads were needed so they could have enough bracelets and necklaces to sell. Another example is the group of students who have been creating arrows were measuring the length of the hallways to plan for the number of arrows and spacing. Hanging on the bulletin board outside is their cool diagram of the halls with all of the measurements.
Students have independent reading and writing projects they are working on. They are doing some great things, so I will include more info on that next time! If you have not returned the forms for Ashoken yet, please get them in ASAP. Remember, if you are sending any medicine, even something small like cough drops, it needs a doctor signature. Conference sign-ups will be coming home later in the week. I will email the form for those of you that would like to e-sign up. We will also be taking a trip to the New York Historical Society next week, March 9th, so a permission slip will be going home this week.
As always, let me know if there are any questions or ideas.
Take care,
Lauren
Tuesday, February 23, 2010
LAUREN CLASS DREAM TEAM BY TATIANA
IDEAS FOR FUNDRAISING
. we can go to wall street and beake up into teams and do a little performance and get money
. bake sale
. we could go to different schools and give speches on darfur to give a whereness on darfur
. we can us the scraps from H&M TO make Darfur t-shrits
. we could host a movie night like PS.63 does and raise money
. we can have a get MOVIN night raise money
. we could have a talent show
. we could have a grage sale
IF U HAVE IDEAS FOR FUNRAISING PLEAS WRITE HERE.
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