Dear K/1 families, New Unit of Inquiry – Where We are in Place and Time – Celebrations This week students began inquiry in our new unit with the following questions: What do you know about celebrations?  What do you and your family celebrate?  What do you want to learn about celebrations? Here is more information Read More »

Dear k/1 parents, Unit of Inquiry – How We Organize Ourselves We want to thank all children and parents for their collaboration in our final project of the unit.  We understand it took time and effort to help children prepare their costumes and we thank you for your participation.  Today students represented a variety of Read More »

Dear parents, Unit of Inquiry:  How We Organize Ourselves: Needs and Wants This week several parents came to present to the groups about the needs and wants of their professions and how they help the community in different ways. Thank you! Next week is the final project of our unit and your child will do Read More »

Dear k/1 families, Unit of Inquiry – How We Organize Ourselves This week students experienced the Class Store Project in which they received $10 of play money each day and had to choose what school supplies they would buy.  They made a new purchase each day during 3 days.  This gave them the opportunity to Read More »

Dear parents, Unit of inquiry Please ask your children to tell you about their learning this week around the following questions: Who works in community?  How do they help the people in the community satisfy their basic needs?  What are some basic needs of all people around the world? Next week, we will begin parent Read More »

Dear k/1 families, Unit of Inquiry:  How We Organize Ourselves Central Idea:  Communities can help us satisfy our needs and wants. This week students explored the concepts of individual needs in different communities such as in a classroom, at home, and in the community of Missoula.  They used different thinking routines and graphic organizers to Read More »

Dear k/1 families, Social and Emotional Learning This week k/1 students continued to get to know each other by exploring feelings through various interactive activities such as painting classmate portraits, puppet play, drawing, “the feelings door” and conversation in circle.  Please ask your child how their feelings change during the day and encourage them to Read More »

Dear k/1 families, We are so excited to begin our school year with your children!  We are sure we are going to have a wonderful year of learning adventures. Hopes and Dreams During these first weeks of school, students have been sharing their particular interests to get to know each other and make new friends.  Read More »

Dear parents, Language Arts This week students in k/1 presented their nonfiction books to each other.  They also created robots and wrote fiction stories about them.  Students are demonstrated appreciation for other by giving compliments and suggestions about their writing. Unit of Inquiry The k/1 students completed their summative assessment task in our unit How Read More »

Dear parents, Units of Inquiry This week the k/1 classes conducted more How the World Works experiments to measure and predict wind, precipitation, and temperature and learned new ways to describe clouds. After exploring many features of nonfiction books, they created their own nonfiction books that connect with concepts in our unit Sharing the Planet.  Read More »