What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? October 17th, 2014

There have been a lot of great anchor charts, student work and classroom activities happening the past several weeks. Here is a sampling that I noticed this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building that you would like to share with the staff and have featured in the blog, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

Mr. Clark's classes created instruments that are prominently displayed outside the office. 

Ms. Colacino uses library book pockets to keep track of books signed out from her classroom library. 

Ms. Colacino's word bubbles promote thinking stems for appropriate conversation in a Responsible Reading Community. 

Mr. Phoenix has created an anchor chart to support students with aligning text in a Microsoft Word document. 

Ms. DeLeon updates her Elements of Art anchor charts throughout the quarter to support student learning of new strategies. 

Mr. Wolfenden incorporates the Weekly Formative Assessment strategies in his classroom to gather knowledge about his students and their mastery. 

Ms. Jones helps her students break down finding the Main Idea in a text. 

Mr. Swanston's anchor chart uses student created Post-It notes to make predictions about what they will be learning in an ongoing unit. 

Ms. Nertilus uses anchor charts to demonstrate to students how to solve problems using both words and numbers. 

Mr. Murphy's students demonstrated knowledge of elements by creating a description of an element of his choice. 

Ms. Brendel teaches color to students by making an anchor chart of red objects. 

Ms. Cleland models text-to-text connections with students by using an anchor chart from a recent read aloud. 

Ms. Richards' students are beginning centers in her classroom and use this anchor chart to refer to classroom expectations. 

Ms. Colacino uses an anchor chart to demonstrate the shorthand she uses to refer to the important aspects of student writing.

If you have read all the way to the end of this blog post and reviewed all the AWESOME things happening in our classrooms be one of the first 4 people to shoot me an e-mail and I will bring you a complimentary Kaldi's Coffee next Friday, October 25th!