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Growing Good People Through Service & Relationships
The third grade at Tuxedo Park School has long carried on a tradition of service learning. Throughout the school year, each class visits the Promenade at Tuxedo, an assisted living facility. Together with residents they work on a service project that provides for an identified need in the local community. As we introduced this to […]
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GarageBand Class Creates Mini-Soundtracks
Students in the GarageBand App class at Tuxedo Park School were busy this past trimester creating exciting sound projects. For their final project, each student selected an excerpt from a literary work that they have read at Tuxedo Park School, recorded a voice narrating the passage (which serves as the voiceover), and then created a […]
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Would Working With Wood Change your Working?
Though the Tuxedo Park School Art Program has always incorporated a wide variety of materials, with the expansion of our tools and materials Mrs. Sweeney is taking the students’ knowledge of and experience with wood to new heights. In Upper School, students work together to build a bench out of reclaimed pallet wood. In Middle […]
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Reenacting and Recreating a Revolution in Second Grade
How can a teacher effectively cover a unit on the American Revolution in four months without lulling a classroom of young students sleep? For those who are willing to boldly employ the types of things 8 year-olds appreciate, the answers to these questions are clear and can be applied to social studies themes, especially the […]
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Paving the Road to Revolutionary Understanding
To meet second graders at the developmental crossroads of their imaginative enthusiasm and their deepening awareness of events from long ago, “making history” in the classroom (and sometimes outside of the classroom) is crucial for students to grasp historical material. Children at this age and stage thrive when captivated by a social studies curriculum that […]
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The Power of Home Made Play Dough
Play dough is a staple in a preschool classroom. The opportunity to roll, smush, pinch, pat, mold, mush, and make with it provides endless possibilities for young children. It also provides valuable learning opportunities related to fine and gross motor skills, creativity, language, and social development. But making play dough? Well, that takes the whole […]
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Everything I Need To Know I Learned in Kindergarten
On Tuesday, after morning work was complete, students were offered some choice activities. All thirteen students chose to explore trains together. With interest and curiosity I watched and listened as they began playing together. Would they be able to make this work with all thirteen of them? Would I need to intervene? How would they […]
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Deconstructing the box – a third grade investigation of how computers work
Recently, third grade tech class has become a hands on adventure as we’ve tackled the big questions of, “how do computers work,” “what’s inside a computer,” and “can I take a computer apart?” Fortunately, the answer to all three questions is, “yes!” In pairs, the third graders have been using screwdrivers to carefully dismantle our […]
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Constructing Communities of Paper & Growing Communities of Learners
Our Community Construction Project is causing a lot of excitement this week during first grade social studies. Before spring vacation, the class learned about the concepts of needs and wants within the context of a community. The children listed everything they thought should be in a community. During another class session everyone worked together to […]