rachelrubenfeld

Orange Monarchs with Emily September was a month full of fun, friendship, curiosity, and learning! In math, we have been mainly focusing on place value and number formation. When we write numbers, we discuss the way they are formed. Are they made of curved lines? Are they made of straight lines? Are they made of both? Rhymes help us remember their formation! For example: "around the tree, around the tree, that's how we write the number three!" and "the bee goes down and around the hive,...

Orange Monarchs with Emily The first few weeks of school have been magical and transformative as we've bonded and built our class community! As a flock, we exercised collaboration as we generated flock name ideas. After voting for the Orange Monarchs, we practiced creativity and came up with a cheer to show our pride! Here we learned and reviewed the lifecycle of a butterfly and incorporated it into our song. While transitioning back to school, we have been building our understanding of...

Yellow Superstars with Emily May was the last month we spent together as Yellow Superstars. As we wrapped up academics and reflected on our super year, we smiled at past memories, laughed at jokes, and reviewed all in which we learned this year. We can't wait to watch these amazing learners blast off into their futures! For Community Day, learners had lots to display to our GAP School families. Their narrative writing on the butterfly life cycle was their debut as authors and illustrators....