Students learned about Chinese culture this month when visiting scholar Tao Ye from Lijiang in Yunnan Province, China spent the day at The Schoolhouse as part of her 10- month experience as a Visiting Scholar in Vermont. She is a participant in the University of Vermont’s Asian Studies Outreach program that currently is hosting eight [...] Read more »

The Omegas are building circuits!  After a few sessions experimenting with bulbs, batteries, motors and buzzers, the Omegas will be attempting to build electrical circuits that are useful, interesting or fun.  This continuation of our exploration of applied science has been augmented by classroom friend Chris Monje, Evelyn’s grandfather.  A life-long hobbyist, he is not [...] Read more »

The Alpha 2 – Taus have been busy measuring each other using both standard and non standard units. We have compiled a large chart recording our height in rectangular and square blocks, unifix cubes, inches, centimeters, floor tiles and popsicle sticks! We look forward to measuring more!! The class has also been working on “fact [...] Read more »

We have been busy working on our sight words and learning about the partners to make ten. We have also started working on place value with the base ten blocks. We have been learning how to make snowflakes and some pretty fancy scissor work. This being February we had a valentine making factory which was [...] Read more »

Elizabeth Bluemle, children’s book author and co-owner of the Flying Pig Bookstore worked with the Alpha 2 – Taus on identifying and writing similies and metaphors. The class is now working on a surprise book of similes for Elizabeth! (shhhh…) Elizabeth, having you visit our class was more fun than….watching polar bears shoot fireworks, going [...] Read more »

In the Omega classroom, we have been building rockets! As a part of our “Scientists at Work” unit, we have been building rockets out of paper, cardboard and other materials. They are powered by a small isobutane reaction, similar to the explosions that power an internal combustion engine. The Omegas have been learning about the [...] Read more »

The alphas have been working on community building. We are looking at, reading about, and having discussions about ways to communicate and how to acknowledge feelings. We have been playing a lot of games together during open choice to practice what we are learning. We read about Martin Luther King, Jr. and watched part of [...] Read more »

The Alpha 2-Tau room has been working on bar graphing! We are collecting data using tally marks and creating our own graphs. We are also using graphs to answer math questions.  Our class has also been focusing on doing Random Acts of Kindness about the school and using tally marks to record these. Last week [...] Read more »

The Alphas recently received a letter from the Municipal Manager of the Town of Rockingham thanking them for sending money from the penny drive to help rebuild their covered bridge.  You can see the whole letter, but here is an excerpt… “Their generous donation of over Fifty Six dollars to the efforts to rebuild the [...] Read more »