Ms. CAiro's Third Grade
We are SO lucky to have the opportunity to learn guitar in second grade! Thanks to Mr. Reedy & Mr. Connell for making this experience so fun! Please remind your children that specialty classes such as guitar are a privilege!
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These boys worked SO HARD to put together this 199 piece puzzle (we lost the corner piece): )
So proud of themselves for completing this puzzle. Go Tanner and Jordan! Thanks to a wonderful UNF pre-intern, we had the opportunity to experience literacy through puppetry!
Mrs. V. brought supplies for the children to create puppets. The children created puppets, came up with a short script, and performed for their classmates. This was great fun! I have videos that I will be posting shortly to share the wonderful performances with you! Thanks Mrs. V! We are getting ready to transform our garden into a beautiful, flourishing, SPRING garden! In the mean time, we have been celebrating the growth our our broccoli and strawberries!! Jordan and Finn also searched high and low for birds with their trusty animal classification books! Whether it be relaxing on the playground, playing teacher during indoor recess, or putting together puzzles, these children never let their smiles leave their faces! A HUGE HUGE thank you to everyone who donated supplies, time, and love to our class Valentine's Day party! I think the children enjoyed themselves, and I found joy in watching their happiness!! Mrs. Tauvell's wonderful class invited the entire school to check out their classroom zoo! The third graders enjoyed showcasing their animal habitats to our class. They answered questions, and shared adaptations they made for their animals! We are using inventive strategies to discover different ways to compose and decompose two and three digit numbers! Many of the children enjoy coming to the board to showcase their strategies.
As many of you may have seen on from the Seaside Facebook page, the staff had at GREAT time taking pictures with the animals scattered among Steiner College's beautiful campus!
I decided to give each child a picture from the trip, and have them create a fictional story matching the picture. The only rule was to describe what happened before the picture was taken (beginning), what was happing during the picture being taken (middle) and what happened after the picture was taken (end). Prepare yourselves for laughter, folks! These had us CRACKING up!!! Reflection is a key component of successful teaching, and an important philosophy among Waldorf teachers. After our WONDERFUL trip to Steiner College last month, each of the staff members in attendance spent time reflecting on our workshops, interactions, and overall experience. Below you will find my reflections from the conference! Please feel free to ask further questions if you have any regarding any of the information you read below! The most powerful moment from the weekend for me was visiting Golden Valley Charter school; a Public Waldorf school in Sacramento. It was extremely affirming to see so many parallels between a very established and well- respected Public Waldorf School and Seaside J I was also given direction for the next steps I need to take as a classroom teacher to achieve the blend of developmentally appropriate, standards-based instruction and Waldorf-inspired practices that we are striving for. It was heartwarming to see what our wonderful little school has the potential to become! I found both of my workshops very enlightening. It was extremely beneficial for me to attend the handwork workshop to learn the fiber arts of Kumihimo and Lucet. These are beautiful cord-making arts that the children can easily accomplish with guidance. The workshop also provided more difficult handwork experiences to challenge those who are ready for something more, as well as more simplistic tasks for the children who are not quite ready for a complex handwork experience. The classroom discipline workshop was very applicable to our school as a whole. The presenter shared underlying ideas and approaches regarding the roots of discipline from the standpoint of the teacher as well as the student. We were given the opportunity to hear from fellow teachers and master teachers who shared successful (and not so successful) discipline strategies being used in both public and private Waldorf schools across the grades. This weekend has been an ongoing reflection of my current teaching. Being affirmed by many discussions, workshops, and school visits has definitely given me a deeper sense of purpose than I had before attending this conference. I have had the opportunity to share my practices with others and note suggestions from those who have already conquered many of the struggles I find myself currently facing. Conferences such as this one. I would professionally benefit from coming back to Rudolf Steiner College because I feel as though I am just beginning to embark on my journey of becoming a classroom teacher using Waldorf-inspired practices. Learning excites me, and there is so much knowledge to be gained from the master teachers, fellow teachers of all levels, and retired teachers here at the college. I would like to learn more about practical arts, and how to create a more cohesive lesson between academics and arts. Almost 70 pictures from Golden Valley Charter School in Sacramento, CA, Steiner College, and San Fransisco! |
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