Time has been our math focus and now the Tigers can tell time. They are pretty excited about this new development! We have been learning our lines and creating the blocking for our Matinee play, "The Native Species Pet Shop." It emerged from our money math unit where we created a pet shop in our classroom. It also features our dandelion recipes, another theme from this semester.
April is poetry month and we have begun writing and listening to poems. We started with trees and moved on to native species animal subjects...(lots of snakes eating cakes and drinking milkshakes), but we will be working to exhibit our nature science knowledge as we become more comfortable with rhyming word patterns and families. April is also for April fools...here are a couple of ours.
The students have selected and read a short biography with a partner and are now writing book reports on their important person.
Much of our time is spent now on independent study projects. Many of the students have finished the research, and are on to the demo projects.