{"id":2121,"date":"2023-03-17T09:59:54","date_gmt":"2023-03-17T16:59:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/?p=2121"},"modified":"2023-09-25T09:38:10","modified_gmt":"2023-09-25T16:38:10","slug":"curriculum-connections-march-20-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/2023\/03\/curriculum-connections-march-20-2023\/","title":{"rendered":"Collected Classroom Moments"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>This week\u2019s weather put a damper on my class visit routines. In lieu of the usual, more detailed insight into two grade levels, here is a set of small moments I observed in students\u2019 learning across campus this week:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li><strong>8th grade scientists are learning about RECs<\/strong> (Renewable Energy Credits), calculating Hillbrook\u2019s energy use, and discussing how it can be that one shared electrical grid can offer consumers the choice to use only wind, solar or other renewable sources for their power.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>1st grade authors are writing poems with juicy language! <\/strong>This week, they began writing poems about summer that include a reference to all five senses. Stay tuned for details about this year\u2019s annual 1st\/2nd Grade Author\u2019s Walk-About to be treated to a reading.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>6th grade readers finished the semi-autobiographical novel, <\/strong><em>Pashmina<\/em>, about a young Indian-American immigrant and led their first \u201cSocratic Seminar\u201d of the year. They took turns facilitating the group, generating discussion questions, and using their book annotations to answer others\u2019 questions with textual evidence. Themes like culture of modern India, immigration, and teens&#8217; experience with race, class, gender, bullying and secrecy offer great threads for connection and reflection.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li><strong>Kindergarten mathematicians wrote \u201cnumber sentences\u201d<\/strong> about picture stories, flexing their numeral writing, math symbols, and knowledge of subtraction and addition to describe pictures mathematically. A picture of a library with people at tables and books in hand inspired conversation like, \u201cI see four chairs here and three chairs here. I wrote \u20184+3\u2019\u201d and also \u201cI see four chairs but one is away [from the table]. I wrote \u20184-1\u2019\u201d. Math is everywhere and students loved hearing their peers\u2019 math thinking about the same images.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This week\u2019s weather put a damper on my class visit routines. In lieu of the usual, more detailed insight into two grade levels, here is &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":2345,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","content-type":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[242,76,20,92],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-curriculum-connections","category-inspiring-education","category-lower-school","category-middle-school"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/03\/rainbow.png?fit=1152%2C864","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2121"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2173,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2121\/revisions\/2173"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2345"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.hillbrook.us\/voices\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}