by og | Apr 14, 2016 | Teacher Talk
Over the past couple weeks, Mater Christi first grade students have been learning about astronomy during science class. We discussed the sun, stars, our shadows, Galileo, and the moon. To conclude our unit about the moon, we talked about the different phases of the...
by og | Apr 6, 2016 | Teacher Talk
Do you want to know how four and five year children know the names of all five oceans? Gather lots of small figures of ocean animals, find five tubs and label each one as a specific ocean, find a simple song about oceans, and be prepared to make small, medium, large,...
by og | Mar 24, 2016 | Teacher Talk
This assignment entitled: “YOU!” and “Distorted You” represents one project in a progression of problems, all of which ask each student to create using mathematical principles and calculations rather than practice. Both are crucial skills in...
by og | Mar 20, 2016 | Teacher Talk
The American Association of Poison Control Centers declared that the 2016 National Poison Prevention Week begins today, March 20-26. The Poison Prevention Week Council reports, “more than 2 million poisonings are reported each year to the 57 poison control...
by og | Mar 19, 2016 | Teacher Talk
Despite the lack of snow in Vermont, we’ve been having some winter time fun here in the library! We’ve been following the Iditarod, a thousand mile dogsled race in Alaska. The race began in Anchorage on the 5th of March and ends in Nome. Kids in kindergarten through...
by og | Mar 18, 2016 | Teacher Talk
Developing proportional reasoning means to think about relationships between numbers as multiplicative and relative rather than additive and absolute. It’s a different way to see things mathematically and the foundation of rates, functions and Algebra I....
