What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? December 16th, 2015

Take a look at several highlights from around our school this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building you would like showcased for the staff, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

Ms. Connell helps students to prepare for the Acuity Benchmark assessment by reviewing the importance of the test and the expectations so that classmates can be successful. 

Ms. Colacino's winter bulletin board helps students make inferences by using snowmen as a frame for their thinking. 

Prior to introducing graphing equations, Ms. Walter created a simple anchor chart to keep her students from confusing x and y intercepts. 

Ms. Latta's color coded anchor charts helps students to navigate complicated math problems that involve rounding. 

Mr. Loewenberg and Ms. Archer track the Pre-K students' letter knowledge by publicly showing how many letters each student knows proficiently. 

To help students with 1:1 correspondence and counting, Mr. Loewenberg created an anchor chart to help students visually match their counting with numbers and manipulatives. 

Mr. Loewenberg and Ms. Archer's students created an art project after reading the book "Leaf Man."

Ms. Archer's "Area of a Parallelogram" chart shows both the steps for solving an area problem as well as an example for the students. 

Ms. Selden developed an anchor chart that replicates the procedure for a "quote sandwich" as students work on literary essays. 

Ms. Pocost clarifies the expectations for entering the classroom as well as the Do-Now on this anchor chart that she can easily refer to at the front of her classroom. 

Ms. Welch's students developed a flow chart for how a bill becomes a law in the United States. 

Ms. Cychowski's 7th and 8th grade Science students showed their knowledge of kinetic vs. potential energy, building atoms of energy, and alternative energy in a variety of exploratory classroom projects. 

Ms. Richards helps students to organize and think about the main idea of "Poison Dart Frog" in anticipation of a compare and contrast activity in her classroom by developing a graphic organizer anchor chart. 

What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? November 19th, 2015

Take a look at several highlights from around our school this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building you would like showcased for the staff, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

Ms. Salmo publicly tracks daily mastery of Math objectives for her Kindergarten students. 

Ms. Wolfenden motivates her students positively by helping them to create a class goal for the entire month that in turn leads to positive classroom culture! 

Ms. Trapp's students used sight words to write a short story about dogs. 

  

Ms. Archer's 6th & 7th grade Math students can see their mastery of multiplication tables posted in the classroom. 

Mrs. Williams-Alberty posts the required materials students need for IDR in her classroom. 

Ms. Colacino publicly tracks and compares the the percentage of "on-task" time during IDR for her classes. 

Ms. Colacino's November and December Read-A-Thon is a great way to motivate students to read and stay on task during IDR! 

Ms. Richards' social media themed bulletin boards display student work. 

Ms. Richards anonymously tracks students' performance on district benchmark assessments in a way that encourages them to see their scores rise. 

Ms. Cychowski's 7th grade Science students completed a research report about a famous scientist. 

What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? October 29, 2015

Take a look at several highlights from around our school this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building you would like showcased for the staff, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

In Ms. Colacino's read alouds of "Wonder," the teacher models how students make inferences about reading and then posts the inferences students make together. 

In Ms. Richards' room, the expectations for using Edmodo are clearly and visually posted. 

Ms. Latta's "I Notice" "I Wonder" anchor charts are student developed and displayed prominently around the classroom. 

Ms. Wolfenden emphasizes the importance of STAR Reading and reminds the students of what they must do to be ready for 3rd grades. 

1st grade readers in Ms. Kempf's class are learning how to read with expression by using punctuation marks. 

Mr. Clark's Word Wall is color coded and prominently displayed in the front of the room. 

In Mr. Loewenberg and Ms. Archer's Pre-K classroom, the expectations for the student activity, "There Was An Old Lady Who Swallowed a Ghost" clearly indicates what students are reading. 

Ms. Cychowski and Ms. Walter  motivate their students during Morning Meeting to earn an incentive. 

Ms. Pocost has her students competing to earn table points for their participation in class. 

What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? October 15, 2015

Take a look at several highlights from around our school this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building you would like showcased for the staff, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

Ms. Cychowski's students analyzed various weather events, their causes, and effects in a study of weather. 

Students in Mr. Goodman's Art classes created colorful images of food. 

Ms. Colacino showcased the "poe-tree" of her students outside her classroom. 

Ms. Latta's 3rd grade students combined Language Arts skills with Science content by writing informative pieces about trees.

Ms. Wolfenden's students practiced making text connections after learning about the skill in read alouds for several weeks. 

Ms. Wolfenden's anchor chart helps students to visualize place value, a difficult elementary Math concept. 

Ms. Selden showcases the students making growth on STAR Reading in her classroom and shows how many months worth of growth they have achieved. 

Ms. Pocost's Electromagnetic Spectrum Anchor Chart helps students with a project as they learn about waves and wavelengths. 

Several teachers have "While You Were Out" boards which are great for helping absent students when they return to your classroom. 

A "3-2-1" is a great Formative Assessment strategy that can be implemented at any stage of a lesson.  

Mr. Clark's students demonstrated knowledge of guitars from their recent lessons by designing their own. 

Ms. Andrews' Text Codes Anchor Chart helps her students to interact with text thoughtfully. Be sure you have a similar anchor chart in your classroom! 

What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? October 1, 2015

Take a look at several highlights from around our school this week. If you see an anchor chart, student work, or something else in the building you would like showcased for the staff, please send it to Tyler.Archer@slps.org.

Ms. Pocost's students created a machine and followed a rubric to show they included all the relevant components. 

Ms. Jones' middle school students created anchor charts demonstrating how they would teach a skill they are learning in math class. 

Ms. Cychowski taught seventh and eighth grade students about the water cycle by assisting them with creating models of the water cycle. 

Ms. Walter's eighth grade students practiced creating their own tessellations in math class. 

Ms. Kempf's first grade students composed an opinion piece as a part of Writing Workshop.

Ms. Wolfenden's BBC is complete and includes each subject, the Do-Now, objective, and homework. 

Ms. Wolfenden's second grade students are learning about text to self and text to text connections. This anchor chart helps students know the difference. 

Teachers in grades three through five have created a friendly competition to see which class accumulates the most reading minutes! 

Ms. McPherson's fourth grade class completed a touching activity after learning about the Bombing of Birmingham during Morning Meeting. 

Ms. Richards shares her third and fourth grade students' reading talents in conjunction with her "Reading Around the World" theme.