Making Learning Visible

 I know it's been a bit since my last post and I'm afraid I'm skipping over some things that I've been meaning to share, but as looked through a recent batch of photos I saw a theme emerge.  Both in Math and in our Social Studies Unit of "Long Ago and Today" there are many ways that we've been learning to make our thinking visible- have a look.

Gail Gibbon's book, From Path to Highway: The Story of the Boston Post Road inspired us to apply our understanding of 2D shapes to make a mural.  In this scene the children are attempting to show how a foot path that was created by Indigenous people became the "Mass Pike" we know today.  Below you can see the the landscape that starts in the 1600's on the left and moves towards current times on the right.  First without shapes...

And now after...

This mural was a timeline of sorts and the children each made their own personal timelines that show important milestones in their lives.  Here are a few-

In the next series of pictures you can see how we used clay and some great guidance from Miss Smith to both feel the difference between a sphere and a circle and draw the differences between squares and cubes or triangles and pyramids.

Lastly I wanted to share a photo form Art Class (it happens right in our room with Ms. Susie).  The children are really enjoying new materials and visual challenges