2/3 teacher

04-22-2010, 03:23 PM
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Every other year we have machines has our theme. One year, we cut out gear shapes, put the students pictures on them, and arranged them linked together for for the idea of "Working Together to Learn." On another wall, we created pulley's with circles and yarn with the idea of "Helping Each Other by Being a Friend". The circles were student generated ideas of how to help each other be on our best behavior all day.
Another year we did robots as the theme (the year Wallie" came out).
Next year, (when the theme comes up again) we are actually thinking of going to a garden theme, because plants are a machine in the way the way they generate their own food, they are the beginning of most food cycles, and farming is important in the surrounding community (which is a part of our machines theme - communities working together).
Hopefully these help you (and by the way, we are a technology based charter school, also).
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