This week in STEM, the 3/4 class got a visit from a special expert on medieval times! He shared with the students tons of information about the Middle Ages, in terms of the society, the goods and services they had, and of course, the buildings! He met with each group to see the progress on… Read more Building the Medieval Village!
This week in STEM, the 3/4 class finished their designs/blueprints for their medieval buildings. Groups of 2 or 3 were assigned a character from medieval society in Global Studies, and then used their character to brainstorm where they lived in the medieval village, what their buildings/houses were made of, who built them, and what architectural… Read more The Medieval Architects Start to Build!
Students in the 3/4 class have done a ton of amazing work this year! Not only that, they have compiled and reflected upon all that hard work in their online KidBlog portfolios. Reflection is an important part of our process at Vermont Day School, and this week students brought all of their work and reflections… Read more Congratulations 3/4’s on your Amazing Student-Led Conferences!
We had a great week, and we were so excited to show parents how our Spanish class works …by inviting them to go through our Spanish class routine! Parents experienced greetings [saludos], an entrance card [la tarjeta de embarque], singing in Spanish [vamos a cantar], reading or being read to in Spanish [vamos a leer],… Read more Bienvenidos mama y papa!
This week in STEM, the 3/4 continued learning about the steps that architects follow. Last week they built structures and learned how to draw floor plans with a scale. This week, they started with floor plans and a scale, and had to figure out how to build a house with three rooms of the correct… Read more The steps that architects follow: using floor plans to build!
This week students in the 3/4 class began curating their KidBlog portfolios in preparation for student led conferences. It was fantastic to see student review all of the amazing work they have done so far this year. After selecting their favorite posts, students edited their work to make sure each post is presentation ready. Classmates… Read more Preparing for Student Led Conferences!
Hello 3/4 Families, This week the 3/4 artists began working with clay! Not only did they know a lot about working with clay, they were extremely focused and therefor created some incredibly delicate and lovely clay bowls using slabs and cutting out various shapes to layer and organize in a bowl shape. Every student took… Read more Clay Bowls
This week students in the 3/4 class began their journey into Literature Circles! In conjunction with our Global Studies unit on the Middle Ages, the class is reading Castle Diary: The Journal of Tobias Burgess. During their first week of Literature Circles students worked together in groups of three to closely read this quarter’s anchor text. … Read more Literature Circles Begin in the 3/4 Class!
In global studies this week the 3/4 class discovered their Driving Question. Table groups were given an envelope containing the words and phrased that would make up our Driving Question for this quarter. Each group raced to put together the words and phrases to form our question for the Middle Ages: How can we act… Read more Global Studies: Exploring Driving Question and Class Library
This week in STEM, the 3/4 class continued learning about Medieval Architecture. They learned about common medieval architectural features, and then had to fill out a “job application” to be a medieval architect, including a drawing of a castle they would propose to build that included these features. When they got their job applications back,… Read more What steps do architects follow?