Students watching the Championships Match up on Friday!
Mr. Cherry Bio
Ryan Cherry is from Brooklyn, Michigan and attended Wheaton College in Wheaton, Illinois. He is a highly qualified educator who spent the last 15 years working in various educational settings around the Midwest. After seeing his high school soccer coach be an influential role model in the lives of his elementary students, he studied elementary education in college as he sought to also positively impact the lives of students. This is his 8th year at Decatur. He did his student teaching in 5th grade at Cleveland School in Chicago. He taught Language Arts and Math in a 5th grade classroom in Brookfield, IL, all subjects in a 4th through 6th grade room at a public Montessori school in Indiana and at Hibbard Elementary in CPS before coming to Decatur in 2017.
Mr. Cherry is inquisitive and curious about the people and world around him. He enjoys reading as it a great avenue to better understand people and our world. He agrees with Dr. Seuss that "the more you read, the more things you will know. The more you learn, the more places you'll go." Mr. Cherry is filled with immense excitement about the chance to teach physical education, as it combines his passion for physical activity and sports with the joy of engaging with students and supporting them enthusiastically. He is fascinated by neuroscience and its intersection with physical activity and is grateful for the chance to have students four days each week to encourage their physical activity.
He is passionate about seeing students gain confidence in their abilities to be successful in both the classroom and the world and become well rounded individuals who care for others as they care for themselves. In his free time, Mr. Cherry enjoys playing sports, spending time with friends and family and enjoying a delicious slice of pie with some strong coffee.
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Here is a slide from our lesson on how Non fiction texts can be organized by categories using the model text Eye to Eye.
One of our March Madness Book Championship Matchups
Here is the road trip project we are working on for social studies!
Here is the SEL book we read this week about 5 different voice levels that would be a great book to check out from your local library and read with your child.
2021 Decatur March Madness Book Championship Bracket
Here is a list of the things we need as a class to make our community a place where all students can be successful and feel valued
This week in Social Studies, we learned about the West Region and created flap books about what we learned.
More student flap book examples
Check out some of our work on the West Region in the form of a flap book
Students learned this week about the TPCASTT method for poetry analysis
This week the 3rd graders listened to the story The Invisible Boy by Trudy Ludwig and discussed how it is easy to feel invisible during remote learning. Then students worked on finding ways to feel their classmates or friends feel less invisible.
Students created awards Oscar or Academy Awards style about the main characters in Tuck Everlasting based on what they were most known for in the story.
Students worked on their Fantastic Mr. Fox final project choice board this week. They could choose between projects like making an invitation to the feast Mr. Fox put on; creating trading cards for each of the main characters, or creating a fake Instagram account of the character of their choosing with images the character would have posted to their account.
