Got to visit exhibits at the Children’s Museum and learned about how to incorporate similar concepts in the classroom! Thank you Dr. Catherine Hagerman Pangan for a great day!

Don't blame teachers and schools. Blame the politicians who demand testing of discrete skills, testing empires raking in big $$ at children's expense, and dreary skills building books teachers are forced to inflict on young readers. No wonder kids don't think they like reading.

Last week my explorers worked on and finished their identity projects! We talked about activities that made us feel calm and happy. We took pictures of them doing their movement and then used the pictures to create wire sculptures of them doing their movement!

Wrapping up our Because of Winn-Dixie unit buy bringing out our inner architects and building a scale-model dog house! Here are the kiddos drawing the wall blue prints! Stay tuned!

Celebrating our Because of Winn-Dixie dog houses and watching the movie was the best way to wrap up the week before fall break! Love celebrating their accomplishments every day!

Thank you Mr. Garvey for sharing your story about how/why you became a landscape architect! The video was a great visual of your hard work! Many students shared how they also want to be an architect when they grow up!! IPS Butler Lab 55

now presenting IPS Butler Lab 55 newest architects! Each group researched a different type of architecture, created a paragraph, and created a class feature article!! I’m so proud of how they turned out and each students design was clearly shown through their work! 🤗

Continuing our architecture adventure by drawing 2-D images of IPS Butler Lab 55 !🎨✏️ Look how talented these kiddos are!!😄🤯

These creative writers sharing their one page stories with the class!! Look how proud they are of themselves!🤗 📝

During my OG group we were practicing creating sentences using the words “she” “was” and “with”. Christopher decided to free style💛🥺 thankful for these constant reminders of loving what I do😁

We made it!! Excited for our next adventure and all the kiddos we get to call our students! 😆❤️📚

Inspired by Peter Reynold’s book “Be You”, we created word note cards to help remind us throughout the day our personal goals for self-growth.

taking over as teachers by creating visual posters to educate each other about different groups of people! #proud #teachertakeover 🍎😄

For the past two weeks we, as a class, have been talking a lot about positive mindset. As I walk around the classroom, I have noticed many self-written reminders. This one was my favorite today😎

Another great motivational quote! These make my day😊 I hope my class inspires you to remind yourself to stay positive during hard times.