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Weekly Highlights: May 10-14
Friday, May 14th, 2010
Let’s go fly a kite! See a quick video of a TWLS spring recess, as well as them learning all about trains, transportation, and spelling in Sarah Trout’s classroom.
From Sarah Trout:
Planes, Trains, Cars, and Boats! This week we are focusing on transportations. We are reading about, categorizing, and interacting with a variety of forms of transportation.
We made blue tracks on the classroom floor, and our yellow train had to stay on the tracks. There were two stops the train had to make to pick up its freight, consisting of “train letters”. One student sat inside the train car as the conductor, and the other student pulled them on the tracks while making two stops. The conductor told the puller which letter they needed first alphabetically, and the puller had to find it and put it in the train. Next, they stopped at the train station to unload the freight and switch roles. After all the letters were picked up, they had to put them in ABC order at the train station. This activity was a blast, and at the same time the students worked on their spatial and body awareness, their responses to verbal cues and social interactions, their ability to associate certain sounds with the corresponding written letter, and proper ABC order.
We are going to do a number of other obstacle courses this week, all centered around picking up letters and placing them in the proper order.
Recess at TWLS:
Kite-flying has become somewhat of a lost art these days; computers and other inside games have usually taken the place of going to the part with friends and a kite. We’re delighted that we can share the fun of launching and flying a kite with our students.
