On Monday and Wednesday this week the Vermont Day School community got together to rehearse this year’s winter concert at the Shelburne Community Gym. Under the direction of our stellar music & theater teacher, Kendra Gratton, students had a great time practicing their instrumentals and vocal on stage in preparation for the big night! The… Read more A Wonderful Winter Concert!
This week in STEM, the 3/4 class continued addressing their “Need to Knows” for the project’s driving question: How can we use photography to teach about the physics of light and color? This week we focused on photography and how cameras work. We started the week looking at the history of cameras, comparing and contrasting… Read more Photography: Light, composition, and camera obscuras!
The Ga Ga Ball court was opened up this week, much to the excitement of all VDS students! It has been wonderful to see students and staff alike trying out the game and having a great time together. This Thursday the 3/4 class also got to play a few rounds for P.E. Students displayed impressive… Read more Ga Ga for Ga Ga Ball!
Over the course of this semester, the 3/4 class has been tracking the length of day each Friday to see how it changes with the seasons. This Friday in Math, the class had their first opportunity to independently calculate the length of the daylight for today’s date. Students use an online calendar to record the sunrise… Read more Length of Day Project & Math Games
This week in STEM we continued our explorations into light and color, and continued to practice designing and carrying out controlled experiments. We started by investigating how light travels in a straight line. In order to do this, the students designed an experiment, changing only one variable, to see how light traveled. Some groups chose… Read more How is light related to color?
In Spanish, we continue to reinforce the vocabulary and grammar structures related to our families. We finished our quarter portfolio piece which used the skills we’ve been practicing (as we read stories, sing songs with hand motions, and play games in Spanish). Students enjoyed learning a new silly song (which my father taught me as… Read more Mi familia
This week in STEM, the 3/4 class were introduced to their new Driving Question: How can we use photography to teach about the physics of color and light? In this project, they will learn about photography and how cameras work, and also learn about some of the properties of color and light. At the end… Read more The Physics of Color and Light
Hello 3/4 Families! This week, the 3/4 artists learned about the “ooey-gooey” fun that is papier-mâché! We began this project by looking at images of Vermont birds such as the Cardinal, Blue Jay and Goldfinch. Students noticed the shapes of their bodies and what their unique features look like. Using newspaper, students formed their birds,… Read more Papier-Mâché Birds
This quarter in writing, the 3/4 class is working toward crafting a multi-paragraph essay which will be aligned to our global studies project. One writing skill which will help make our essays exciting to read is expanding our vocabulary of adjectives. This week in writing, students created an informational paragraph telling the reader all about… Read more Writing: Awesome Adjectives!
During goal setting earlier in the year, many students in the 3/4 class identified mastering their multiplication facts as a personal goal. To that end, we have joined the 2/3 class in a Multiplication Fact Challenge! This week, students filled in the answers to our own class set of fact fluency flashcards up to 12×12. … Read more Math: Multiplication Fact Challenge!