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v. to put on one's thinking cap: October 2013
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Wednesday, October 23, 2013. Experiments of Their Own. Questions being tested included. Are we more germy at different times of day? Does hand sanitizing work? How clean are tap water, rain water, creek water and condensation? Does the length of time of hand washing influence the results? Wednesday, October 16, 2013. The regular hand and the clean hand needed to be from the same person. Different people...
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: November 2014
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Thursday, November 20, 2014. A short documentary made by my lovely co-teacher, Mauren Campbell. During our study of rivers, the third grade decided to follow our local creek to its source in order to find out how it began. When our search lead us to a small valley behind some neighboring houses, we decided to follow it the opposite way.where would our creek end? What would it look like? Busy, busy, busy.
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: Our Richmond-- GRTC Style
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Thursday, February 19, 2015. Our Richmond- GRTC Style. This year for our school-wide umbrella project, we are all thinking about "Our Richmond'. We would still have to go clear over the river, into the city and downtown, get on a new bus, cross back over the river and then ride all the way back out to the market. No way! Instead, we went to Tregegar, the historic Iron-works and Civil War museum downtown ins...
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: February 2014
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Friday, February 21, 2014. The children are very interested in how to make their scrapbooks look old. How will they make the paper look old? What scraps will they put in their books in order to help tell the story of their character? The children are working to expand their ideas of where one can look to research. They are often looking at artwork or photographs of the times to find out about the clothi...
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: October 2014
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Friday, October 31, 2014. How do rivers start, anyway? On our first trip back into the forest, the children found the creek empty- totally bone dry. What a mystery! They were so perplexed. On our walk back to was chatting with Sydney who let all of her curiosity spill out in questions like, "Why is the creek dry? Will it fill back up? How would it fill up again? How DO river start, anyway? The one big idea ...
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: September 2014
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Tuesday, September 23, 2014. I don't know what to write! Mauren and I have been thinking hard about how to help a few writers find their stories and get them down onto paper. It brought us back to a story from a few years ago. Http:/ toputononesthinkingscap.blogspot.com/2012/05/how-i-work.html. How can we open the process of writing to the variety of ways we know minds can work? There were also guidelines.
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: March 2013
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Friday, March 22, 2013. They're Coming to America. We were inspired by a great poet this week. He wrote a moving poem about immigration, maybe you know it. Here are our class notes so far about Neil Diamond's poem "America". It inspired our own poetry writing (and maybe a spontaneous dance party or two, once I told them it was also a song). Researching as Historical Authors. Liking how big and open America ...
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: June 2014
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Tuesday, June 3, 2014. Olden Time Photo Shoot. All throughout our project, the children were fascinated with the old photos we would see. They frequently commented about how serious everyone looked and theorized about why parts of some pictures were blurred out. Was it edited like the children see on TV? Nina Watson reads A Little Princess. To her daughter, Moses, at bedtime. The Snyder family from Germany.
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v. to put on one's thinking cap: May 2013
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V to put on one's thinking cap. A reflection on social constructivism in the elementary classroom. Thursday, May 23, 2013. Sabot on the Radio. I took some time this morning to listen to Sabot on the radio. Enjoyed it. You might too. Http:/ www.radio4all.net/index.php/program/68202. Wednesday, May 15, 2013. Thinking about Population Density. Mason: It is sort of like the real world because Giovanni has this big piece of land and 42 people. Aliza has 1 square but she has more people than Giovanni. Giovanni...
