Our First Learning Mural!

 On the first school day of each new month, we will reflect on our learning from the previous month.

Our brains are growing more than we realize!

First, when we do a learning mural, we brainstorm all the ways that our brains grew in the last month.  In this case, this is our brainstorm list of all the ways our brains grew in September:

We were amazed to see how much learning we have already done in just 21 days!!!

Next, we chose a topic to create, and invited someone to collaborate with us. We talked about our plan, first.

Then we work on that one topic and collaborate to create a representation of that learning, using the materials in our classroom.

We made a label to add to our projects to make our learning clear.

When we finished one project, we crossed that off the list and chose a new one.

We are going to watch a few short ant videos--even ants collaborate to get work done!

 Here is our first completed Learning Mural!

What has been your favorite part of learning so far this year?

January Learning Mural

It's time to reflect on our January learning!

We are getting really good at collaboration as we work on projects together!

Here is our finished Learning Mural:

Published Authors!

We have been working on fixing and fancying up our favorite personal narrative stories to publish.

We even added blurbs on the back!

We were so excited to read each other's stories.

 We are so proud of our work as published authors!

Going Public with our Space Research

After we completed our posters and figured out what order the facts should be read, we practiced with our groups.

Then, our 4K friends came up to learn about space.  They rotated between the posters.

Next, we geared up for our formal presentations for our families and other classes.

Room 408 was so proud!

On Monday, we'll look closely at and reflect on all the learning that we collected from our audiences after each presentation.

Here are the final posters: