Finding Your Poetic Voice

As sunlight streamed down through the autumn leaves out the windows of our own classroom tree house, we were fortunate enough to have our first classroom visit today from Steven Ratiner, our poet in residence.  After giving the children an overview of the timeline of Ancient Chinese dynasties, he explained how we will be borrowing [...]

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Cabinet of Curiosities

There was great excitement last week when we heard the sound of rumbling wheels coming down our hallway toward our room.  When the door opened, in rolled our brand new Cabinet of Curiosities. Funded by the Concord Ed. Fund through a grant written by Diane Kablik, our elementary science curriculum specialist, our Cabinet of Curiosities [...]

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Using a Dichotomous Key

As we look out the window of our classroom, we are just now beginning to see some leaves changing color. While it is still warm enough to explore outdoors and the leaves are still on the trees, we have started a unit on tree identification.
To begin, we took a look at a dichotomous key using [...]

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