Geography Paper Slide Videos

The Chrystall Coconuts have been working in groups to make a paper slide video explaining a geography topic they selected!  Here are the final videos!  Enjoy :)

Valentine's Day Caring for Other's Party

Today, instead of the usual Valentine's Day party, our wonderful room parents planned a "Caring for Others" celebration.  The kids in our class created Valentine's Day art supply kids for the kids living at Hephzibah, an orphanage here in Oak Park.  It was meaningful and fun service project for our class!

This kids also wrote everyone in the class a nice, personalized message saying things they appreciate about each other! 

Enjoy your long, holiday weekend! 

Student Explain Everything Videos: "I'm Learning About Fractions"

To review our first ten fraction lessons, students made videos explaining the concepts using the app Explain Everything.  Here are just a few of the videos the kids made!

Types of Mistakes

“A life spent making mistakes is not only most honorable but more useful than a life spent doing nothing” – George Bernard Shaw

“It is well to cultivate a friendly feeling towards error, to treat it as a companion inseparable from our lives, as something having a purpose which it truly has.” – Maria Montessori

Article: Why Understanding These Four Types of Mistakes Can Help Us Learn


Video: Mistakes - To Get Better You Have to Get Ugly

Let's make our kids "grittier"!

I love TED Talks!  Here is a great one by Angela Lee Duckworth explaining her research on the what makes people successful.  Parents- take six minutes to watch this interesting talk and work on building grit at home!