Finished up another great semester University of Arkansas! I’m back home for winter break and missing my Kindergarten class, but enjoying the time with my family!

First day of solo week in Kindergarten is over! I taught /u/ in phonics and students painted a directed drawn umbrella as their multi-sensory activity! Excited for the rest of this week

Solo week day 2: learning 3D shapes - today we had a cone party! Along with celebrating student achievement!

Fancy up Friday in writing today! We finished our first non fiction books about MLK Jr! Students read their books to a partner and gave each other one compliment and one piece of advice.

Had a great second to last CTM meeting in Kindergarten this afternoon! I have learned so much about the PLC process and communicating with grade level teams to create assessments and interventions over the past 8 weeks. I’m excited to join the 4th grade team to learn even more.

Had a great first day in 4th grade today! Can’t wait to share more experiences in this last placement before graduation! 😊🎓

Some pics from my last week in Kinder! Going to miss this class, but I’m grateful for the relationships I built and everything I learned in this placement!

This semester, I’ve worked on using backwards design to build a 4th grade curriculum unit on waves. I started teaching it today and am excited to share our class progress as we continue over the next weeks!

Today, we tested how sound waves can make rice move and how pitch and volume changes its movement!

We also made straw instruments. We explored how sound waves travel and how to make different pitches. We had a very noisy classroom this morning 😂

Lesson on echolocation today! Students experimented with locating sounds (clapping) around them

Started our final project today! Students have the choice of which materials they use and their mode of presentation, as long as they create a wave and justify how it allows for effective communication.

So far, every group has chosen a different way to create a wave model! It’s been so fun seeing how they execute their plans differently!

Gallon guy in science today!

One last Arkansas Baseball game last night before Amelia Reynolds graduates from University of Arkansas today!

We are so excited to have Miss Reynolds join our Carroll team. Estamos muy contentos de que la Srta. Reynolds se una a nuestro equipo de Carroll.

Ms. Reynolds’ class learned how to code beebots with Mrs. Booth and reviewed how to represent numbers to 5. Angie Booth La clase de la Srta. Reynolds aprendió a codificar beebots con la Sra. Booth y repasó cómo representar números hasta el 5.

Ms. Reynolds’ class learned about media balance with the book Goodnight iPad and drew a picture in Seesaw of things they can do when screens are put away.

Ms. Reynolds class did a great job comparing numbers using Beebots.

We love Mystery Reader Friday in Kindergarten!! Thanks for coming Mike Waldrip 😊😊