Tales from the Field

 Here is my classroom. I found out at 2:00pm the day before school started that the portables were not going to be ready. (they still aren't) This was my view of the classroom before I got to move things around. To the right of the yellow wall/divider is the cafeteria. Yes, that is a portable basketball hoop in my room :)

• Below is what we came out with and basically (minus a few changes since then) what the room looks like now.

Quotes of the Week

• "Ms. Drummon yo feet are blushin'. They all red.

• "Can we please stay in your class, we love it here"

• "I'm sorry, I'll have a better day tomorrow."

• Ms. Drumm....Drummenson...Drum..er...."

• Child: "You remind me of Karmin" 

         Me: "Who?"
         Child: " You know, that rapper on youtube?".....yeah that made my day!!!

Watch her here:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=khCokQt--l4


Here are 2 projects that we've worked on...the first was an introductory science lesson. We're working on inquiry skills so observation is big. Knowing that science is a method..a way of knowing and learning is important. They drew pictures and wrote a description of what they wanted to learn about this year. (part of a modified KWL chart)

The second was their first math project. I made an example, but basically it was a poster/paper that used numbers to describe themselves to the class. They had to include:

A picture (drawn or photograph)
A one digit number
A two digit number
A three digit number
A four digit number
The number had to relate to them

Those are the adventures so far! Every day brings something new!