Dragon Island

Second graders are creating an island for the dragon from My Father's Dragon. They made their island out of salt dough covering up crumpled pieces of paper. Here they are painting the islands. The next step will be to map out their islands using a grid system.

1st Graders Publish Poems about the Moon

I visited Laura's first grade classroom to help them with a project about the moon. They had written several sentences using adjectives to describe the moon. I worked with them on revising: the students cut apart their sentences and rearranged them until they liked the way their poem sounded. Some students even deleted one or two sentences. Then they published these poems with a painting of the moon. These paintings became flaps that lift up to show the poem hidden underneath.

6th Graders Design Boats

These 6th graders are using math and science to build boats and predict how many pennies their boats would hold.

The Land of Treble

Third graders are learning about our number system by imagining a place where things come in groups of three. Here they are playing a game called, "Race to a Trickle." In the Land of Treble, a trickle is the cost of a slurp (the pet everyone wants in Treble). Here the students roll a die, and then take gickles or bickles, trading them in until they have a trickle.

2nd Graders Celebrate Trees

The second graders completed a field guide to the trees in the Academy School forest. They celebrated by binding the books together and drinking tea made from pine needles and black birch sticks that they gathered.

Kindergarten Math with Spinners

These kindergarteners are spinning their spinners and graphing their results to see which color "wins" by getting to ten first.

Kindergarteners Study Leo Lionni

Kindergarteners are reading books by Leo Lionni. Here is some artwork inspired by one of his books and our chart to keep track of the story elements.