Wednesday, December 16, 2015

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.