Below are examples of powerful learning in room 215!

Students reading elbow elbow knee knee during read to buddy

Students playing math games together during our math centers

Working with a partner to share story ideas during our realistic fiction unit

Our anchor chart on sound

Working in partners to discover if sound travels better through solids or the air

Working collaboratively during science

This student was fascinated with this map after our American symbols unit and was learning the locations of various states

Students in my reading group researched whales and worked collaboratively to present their poster


This was a math poem I wrote to help my students when learning about fact families

As a final assessment each student made a fact family house, which then became a fact family city outside our classroom

Our informational writing anchor chart

Emmalina’s writing about horses, using the graphic organizer

Emmalina’s final text about horses