Bridges Blog Archive for February 2010

Singing and Measuring with the Inchworm

Allyn Fisher   |   February 16, 2010

Kathy Richard, who teaches second grade at Gilbert Heights Elementary in Portland, is a former music teacher. When she started teaching the new lessons from Bridges Supplement Set D2, Measuring Length in U.S. Customary Units, she couldn't help herself from singing the old Inchworm song in class. Soon, her students joined in, and the whole class fell in love with the song. Kathy decided it would be fun and motivational to have the kids record their own rendition of this classic.

Read more »
Tags:

Communities of Learning

Frazer Boergadine   |   February 10, 2010

As you know, Bridges in Mathematics advocates building a safe, positive community of learners in every classroom. Students are more apt to share their thinking, listen carefully to others, disagree with an idea not a person, and collaborate in positive and productive ways when they feel part of something bigger than themselves that they view as beneficial and good. Jefferson County Public Schools has taken buillding learning communities to a different level as described in a recent Edutopia article at www.edutopia.org/louisville-sel-social-emotional-learning.

Read more »
Tags: