December Learning Fun ⛄

In Kindergarten, we are powering through our verb unit.   Students have been learning through pictures, words, videos and acting out words.  Students made picture books and the next step will be to make books with simple sentences.  Students will incorporate pronouns into their sentences; we have been practicing with the pronouns she, he and they.  Through this unit we have incorporated the following WIDA domains:  listening, speaking and reading.

 

Students working in the pre-writing stage.

       
Students acting out vocabulary - can you guess some of our vocabulary words? 

whispering, cheering, daydreaming, holding, cutting

In Fourth Grade we had such engaging, rich conversation while playing a game of This or That? - AI edition.  We utilized our district EdTech specialist's resources from the very cool 12 Days of AI series.  Students had to choose which image was AI and which was Human and be ready to defend their answer before each reveal.  Students were able to build off of each other's thoughts and reflect on their initial responses.  This fun activity incorporated the following WIDA domains: listening and speaking.

              

Answers: Human images were A, B, A

Lastly, as part of Goodrich's winter fun, classrooms were invited to participate in a door decorating contest.  Every student in my groups made a hand cut out and decorated it.  This hand cut out was made to create our international tree.  We incorporated math skills by calculating how many hand "hand branches" we would place in each row of the tree - along with how many rows would we need to make?  The students did an amazing job and two fifth grade ❄❄❄❄❄students showed amazing leadership by putting together our international tree!