Monday I got to visit Boylee's classroom, where we celebrated the end of our big, year-long unit on The Neighborhood. There was a lot to see inside the classroom:
For the whole year, the kids have been studying the neighborhood. They've had three walking field trips in various directions. They're consulted paper maps and looked at Google maps and satellite images. Then Boylee and his group made this bird's eye view of the busy, busy neighborhood. The red blocks are cars. The little colored squares are people. The tall tower is the CNN building. Boylee's group was famous in the classroom for repeated collapses of the freeway they attempted to build. Eventually they gave up that effort.
Before they could do the block construction, they had to collaborate on a hand-drawn map.
The morning greeting.
The class was divided into four groups, and here are all the maps they made. I think Boylee's group was called Northeast, but I don't remember for sure.
They've also been working on dioramas about their favorite books.
Boylee's is about Percy Jackson, of course.
Our fearless leader. How she does this every year, I'll never know.
1 comment:
Dissipate ... and it's the wrong word in this context. But she's a wonderful teacher ennyway.
The former English major
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