Parents play a vital part in ensuring that our classroom is well maintained. I communicate weekly via a Newletter to let parents know what we are doing and what our class needs for the upcoming week as well as thanking parents who helped our class and publishing student work. I give students a lot of choices. We discuss our learning processes together. Many of the things we learn in our class comes from good literature books.
Students enjoy doing, making, talking, and planning their learning.
We do a lot of projects together. Students are continuously involved with their learning by working together and talking to each other about their learning. I am basically a thematic teacher . For example, when we learned about ocean, we transformed the room like an ocean and had a wonderful Whale Watching field trip. Another example was at the end of the year we were learning about plants, insects and our garden and transformed our room to look like a garden.