Liz's Senior Learners

     The Senior Learners are busy working on their Senior Learner Projects - here is a short video about their projects - https://drive.google.com/file/d/1GC4kM10XeqTz1bbwBv_lu7CDgPLy5jaY/view?usp=sharing In addition to their research, the students are directing their efforts towards developing presentations, making choices about the best way to present to the panel, and choosing the best platforms for their presentations. The kids are incredibly supportive of one another's work, offering feedback and suggestions during the school day. More about the projects soon.

    We launched our student-led reading groups. The kids meet to discuss the reading, share connections that they make with their novels, resolve questions that emerge while reading, make inferences, and decide as a group, the number of pages to read before their next meeting. The groups are self-directed, engaged, and the kids appreciate freedom and independence afforded by student-led reading groups.

     We are spending lots of time thinking about commas. We are delving into the language of grammar, such as clauses, conjunctions, independent and dependent clauses. The words that we use to organize and classify phrases such as "independent and dependent clauses" can seem a bit abstract to the kids at first. However, by having repeated experiences in thinking about how these clauses are already part of how they communicate orally and in writing, what may seem abstract at first,  becomes more concrete and accessible.