Notes from The Learning Lab
We have thinkers on our hands!
Metacognition
Music
Brass Try-Ons
Reading Workshop
Reading is Thinking
Responding to reading by explaining thinking is part of the balance of our reading lives in 5th grade. Our focus for responding has ranged from stopping and jotting thinking on sticky notes, finding new and interesting words, and making thinking visible using the inquiry process. Readers asked a question, found text evidence (took pictures of parts of the book) to answer the question, and formed a theory to answer their question. These are a few ways we have thought about our thinking as readers.
Writing Workshop
Capturing Stories
A Community of Writers
Giving Full Attention to Stories
Thinking of Stories
Telling Stories from a List
Writing from a List
In Deep Concentration
Math Workshop
Problem Solving is Thinking
6th Grade- Graphs and data have continued to be the focus over the past two weeks. Mathematicians have been analyzing and learning about histograms, analyzing misleading graphs, estimating percentages for pie graphs, and have even been working on their multiplication facts speed.
Timed Test Arcade
The 100 Percent Club
Math Partnerships
Unit Study
Collaboration- Owen and Caleb Research
Busy Researching
Presenting in Small Groups
Groups Engaged
Thinking About Prehistoric Natives
Some questions that guided this inquiry were:
-Where did they live?
-When did they live?
-What is interesting about their culture?
Each learner then decided how to present their information gained to a small group. Some students created imovies, some chose PicCollage, some used Explain Everything, etc. Then they met in small groups to share.