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Step 1: Sketch a playground. Step 2: Edit plans to make it accessible. Step 3: Build it. Step 4: Label parts of the playground that demonstrate push & pull. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers @WHESIBPYP

Just a little telling time spring egg hunt the other day! 💕 #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

Tried out these new stamping tools for our final Artist Club masterpieces. We ♥️ any type of collage work. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

These turned out so cute! More to come for our Mother’s Day cards…. #growHere

I am in love with how these turned out! IB unit How We Organize Ourselves: we learned about goods and services. Instead of making horizontal roads for our store examples, I taught my 1st graders an art technique-vanishing point, & how to use rulers! @WHE_Whiskers #groWHere

3rd quarter student showcase! Families interviewed students for their career choice & hired them with a Whiskers paycheck. Kids came up with funny paycheck amounts. Then students asked adults about their jobs. We ended with a song, of course. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

Heritage Night success! We mimicked the process of Malaysian batik textile art in a condensed activity: Draw designs on paper with wax crayons, add colors with washable markers on a whiteboard, then spray the whiteboard with water to stamp the paper. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

I was blessed to witness families bond through the Heritage Night craft. The big reveal at the end when I peeled the paper off the whiteboard got many gasps. They saw the connection in the batik making process as the wax blocked colors from dyeing the paper. @WHE_Whiskers

Conducted a combination of art techniques at Heritage Night with wax crayons, washable markers, and water to mimic Malaysian batik making. Stay tuned for results! #growHere @WHE_Whiskers

I shared a bit of my Chinese-Malaysian culture at a booth at our school’s Heritage Night. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

In Letterland, we learned about how the suffix -ed made 3 different sounds. We went back to the basics to stretch our sounds in front of the mirror to identify mouth shapes. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

Yay for Lucky Charms cereal as sweet bookends on this “long” week coming back from spring break! Kids snacked on St. Patty’s Day/Monday during independent reading activities & then had leftovers on Friday during their Letterland test. Yum! 🍀🌈#groWHere @WHE_Whiskers

Cat Connections! A high school volunteer & 3rd grade friends helped my Firsties prep for our upcoming IB market day. Together, they made flowers out of pipe cleaners & wrapping tissue paper to “sell” at our farmers’ market. These turned out so cute! 💐 @WHE_Whiskers @WHESIBPYP

In science, we inquired about how something balances. Kids loved the special bird! The next morning during soft start, kids voluntarily built towers out of various blocks & cups to test out their stability. #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers @WHESIBPYP

Tested out our inquiry using the scientific method. Predicted how a tall vs short ramp affected how the marble moves. Then we tested for speed & distance on each ramp 3x. After reflecting, kids wanted to make their own ramps during dismissal! @WHE_Whiskers @WHESIBPYP

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Day 2 of exploring shapes. Firsties made shapes on geoboards & solved an inquiry on what attributes make a square, a rectangle, & a triangle (closed shapes, number of corners & sides, measured length by counting units of each side, etc). #groWHere @WHE_Whiskers