Developing a growth mindset never ends. Lately I’ve been hearing my students say having a growth mindset means you never stop working. It is on-going. Jedi from all over the galaxy know the importance of a growth mindset too. With that being said, Brufftopians learned having a fixed mindset leads you down the path of the Dark …
Students are reading a number of books in their Historical Fiction books clubs. One group in particular is reading Inside Out and Back Again byThanhha Lai. Many of the students are familiar with the Chinese calendar. When asked, “Why isn’t there a year of the cat?” some students shared folk …
Do you estimate or measure using the Metric System or US Customary Units? Most Americans use US Customary Units. If you estimate using the Metric System, you’d have a leg up on the fourth graders in Brufftopia. Students are asking themselves, “Why do we need to learn how to use the Metric System …
Kyle previews Warriors by Erin Hunter. Check out more student book trailers on the class website.
Student Written Blog Post Do you really want these computer to die? We use them a lot. For example we use them in indoor recess and we use them to for Google Classroom! We can lose the computers like we lost the colored pencils and the iPads! (Did we really lose …
Student Written Post Dear Parents, You are probably wondering what a Shelfie Wall is. Well it is a wall with selfies. Not any kind of selfies, but selfies with books that you already read. So, they are really called shelfies. See what we did there!
