TCS Summer Bridge session 3!

Session 3 TCS Summer Bridge Our second/third grade Friday’s project was to create a travel brochure of a place they visited this summer. Alan Pickens thought the project was awesome because "we can draw, write and let our minds go wild." Lily Brown and Joseph Smith enjoyed it because they remembered all the fun times they had.

Rising second graders spent the week practicing adding three 1-digit numbers and utilized mathematical language such as "4 threes" and "2 groups of 5" to describe equal groups of numbers. Students also played "Addition Top-It" to reinforce addition skills. In Language Arts, students worked on short and long vowel sounds and practiced grade-level sight words.

During Session 3 of TCS Summer Bridge, the kindergarten and first students shared their ideas and thoughts of what Friday’s project should encompass. Several students decided they wanted to make banks for saving money. They made a plan of what materials were needed and they had a clear creative acumen of how to proceed. When asked, “Why do you want to create banks?” The answers were filled with selflessness compassion. “To help other children who are not happy be happy,” “To help homeless people” and “To buy my friends a birthday gift if they had a birthday” are a few of the amazing responses. It was only fitting for these progressive learners, who expanded their thinking to the community, to listen to the story "The Tooth" written by Avi Slodovnick. What an amazing thought provoking read for youngsters. Enjoy!