Take a peek inside to see what vibrant lessons happening inside of TCS classrooms this week!
Blue Room celebrated Chinese New Year (Year of the Rat) by creating beautiful red and gold lanterns imprinted with rat stamps and reading the book Bringing in the New Year by Grace Lin. They played with snowy sensory bins, created winter hats and mittens, and made snowflake-printed masterpieces. In addition, they read several books to commemorate the cold weather.
Yellow Room created dream statements in honor of Dr. Martin Luther King Junior. Based on his famous “I have a dream speech”, Yellow Roomers drew pictures and told us what their dreams were for our society; including dreaming safety and success for all the firefighters in our world and dreaming that all children have access to a good education.
Kindergarten learned about the "it" word family and number words. Math this week was all about time! Students learned how to tell time to the hour on both digital and analog clocks.
First Graders in language arts focused on the digraph /ch/ and studied this sound in the beginning and end of words. They read fiction and non-fiction stories which focused on both the /ch/ sound and sequencing. The kids enjoyed continuing to learn about Martin Luther King Jr. this week. His birthday was on the 15th and they honored him by discussing, writing, and illustrating what is "Fair vs. Not Fair".
Second Graders read "The Snowy Day" by Ezra Jack Keats. This classic book won the Caldecott Award for best illustrations. They enjoyed creating their favorite outdoor scene from the story. During reading lab they read about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The class took the KJ (kindness and justice) pledge. After a beautiful discussion about Dr. King and the qualities he embodies such as being calm, kind, just, patient, and non-violent; they chanted the pledge, wrote in their journals and traced their hands.
Third Graders have been enjoying being read the classic, Charlotte’s Web by our own Head of School, Holly Novick.
Fourth Graders worked learned about the life and times of Martin Luther King, Jr. They began their studies reading the book, My Brother Martin, by his sister, Christine King Farris. Students wrote their wishes for: family, neighborhood, country, and even the world. They have big dreams! The class designed “picket signs” by looking up words associated with Civil Rights and then writing a definition, a sentence, and then drawing a picture to match the sentence.
