Integers in 7th Grade
I had the opportunity to go and peek in on a fabulous 7th Grade Math class learning about Integers on Monday! Some highlights that I wanted to share were that I loved seeing the students use the Clickers to input their test data, I also loved how the teacher was using her iPad as a slate to teach. She was able to walk around the room while teaching, rather then be stuck at the board. She also has the opportunity to record her lessons and embed them onto her blog so that parents and students can see how she as a teacher presented the lesson, it will help with absent kids needing to hear the lecture/lesson that was missed from not being in class. Finally, in this class period she took her kiddos outside to work with sidewalk chalk and do some actual activity on the number line!
Way to go kids!
First Grade Making Connections!
Here at QUEST we have spent time on training our teachers to use some fabulous “Reading Strategies” that help make our students “THINK” while they read! By having them THINK about their READING, it will help them understand, remember and comprehend their text. Here is one of our First Grade Classes working on a strategy called “Making Connections.”
The teacher started teaching their student’s what SCHEMA is, having them understand that your schema is all the information that you know, your prior knowledge, your experiences, the new facts you have read about and more!Friday, they were using the schema while listening to a book read aloud by their teacher. They were to actually make a “connection” with a character from the Text.
She had modeled to them the difference between a THICK and a THIN connections to make sure that they understood the importance of making a connection that was important to understanding the text first.
Below are pics of her students recording their thoughts on paper and them singing a song to help them understand what SCHEMA really is!
This is a GREAT strategy to use at home with your own child while you are listening to them read each night. I bet they will be familiar with ScHeMa and Connections from their class also!
Remember: READING IS THINKING!
Noodle Towers Anyone?
Mrs. Hutchinson was a proud teacher today! She had her class put their “Thinking Caps” on and get to work! The goal was to build the tallest, free standing tower, that could hold a giant marshmallow on top. The only tools the students could use were 20 uncooked spaghetti noodes and one yard of tape. Students had 20 minutes to complete the task. The tallest tower was 11 inches tall!
She wanted her class to learn that thinking can be fun! It also taught them that sometimes we succeed and sometimes we don’t, but we never give up!
2nd Grade is Up and Going
Check out what this 2nd Grade class has already accomplished this year!
Way to GO!
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Kindergarten Letter Practice
Our Kindergarten uses neat program to help teach our kiddos letter recognition, sounds and the correct way to write the letters!
Click on the image below to see how we teach our Kinders to have
Perfect Handwriting!
sCieNcE fUn! 5th Grade!!!
I love seeing what is going on in the classrooms here at Quest! Here is a fun SCIENCE Experiment with GUMMY BEARS!
No GUMMY BEARS were consumed during this experiment! They were only used as Scientific Tools 😉
Check out this AWESOME VIDEO!
No GUMMY BEARS were consumed during this experiment! They were only used as Scientific Tools 😉
Check out this AWESOME VIDEO!
You can always learn with a song!!!!
Our Fifth graders are learning about decimals! Check out these boys singing a fun song to help them master the concept of Place Value and Decimals!
