Thursday, March 2, 2017

What's Happening Around Lyon Academy? March 2nd, 2017

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. Jones' students constructed plot diagrams from their independent reading books using reading strategy graphic organizers. 

Ms. Andrews' Valentines Day-themed student work assignment was both engaging and relevant for students' learning in February. 

Ms. Wolfenden's students composed expository nonfiction articles after reading about polar lands. 

Ms. Smith used the red, yellow and green light visual to help students with what they should do when they encounter punctuation while reading. 

Mr. Wolfenden's students composed paragraphs responding to their reading from To Kill a Mockingbird.

Mr. Clark's students created a graphic representation of the lyrics of the song, "Lift Every Voice and Sing" in music class. 

Ms. Archer's most recent assignment included a student-friendly rubric, individual personalized feedback for each student, and a higher level DOK activity that was relevant for the students. 

Ms. Archer created an anchor chart to help students remember complicated formulas for circles. 

Ms. Wolfenden's "I Wonder" anchor chart helps students think critically about their reading and provides thinking stems to assist the students as they read. 

Ms. Wolfenden's students also wrote letters to Harriet Tubman after reading the book Letters From Minty in their writing workshop. 

Ms. Richardson's students completed a text features checklist for a nonfiction text during IDR. 

Ms. Cychowski's students created models of reproduction processes and described their knowledge of reproduction in the explanations. 

Ms. Connell's students practiced sight words by being a "Sight Word Detective."

Ms. Trapp's classroom anchor chart helps remind students of the PBIS expectations during class. 

Ms. Wolfenden's anchor chart helps students analyze nonfiction texts across all subjects. 

Ms. Kempf uses clothespins to move students along the data wall as they improve throughout the year. 

Ms. Benjamin's student work assignments are differentiated by skill, level and also color to help the students with what they need to be working on in the classroom. 

Ms. Benjamin displays visually for the students what group they will be working with during class. 



Ms. Cisar has several anchor charts to support student learning including one to support thinking about math vocabulary, another to model the process of division, and lastly an anchor chart to help students visually understand their academic progress.