We have 3 ducklings, 2 baby goats, a new parakeet mate for Lola, and a classroom/house rabbit. We will be learning a lot this semester about caring for our animal friends and how Great Humans take responsibility for living things that depend on us.
In our first week of school, we have decorated our science journals with adaptation photos....
decorated our math journals with tessellation art (using our logical/mathematical skills along with our visual/spatial skills)...
and decorated our literacy notebooks with illuminated lettering of our first name initial.
We began our first read aloud, Flora and Ulysses. It has amazing vocabulary opportunities.
We've done 2 math trail adventures so far. Today the students were able to navigate the trail with a partner. Last week there were 153 eggs, but today only 20. What happened?
answer: the Friday egg sale.
answer: the Friday egg sale.
Each student wrote a letter of encouragement to themselves to place in their literacy notebook this week. This was a practice for the letter of encouragement they will write for the students of the coastal classroom we adopt. We will gather classroom supplies to send once we know what is needed in the classroom we get matched with.
We moved our 3 ducklings out to the farmyard today, but first we had to create an enclosure area for them around their new coop. The baby goats were both trying to help.
Our latest venture has been to survey our multiple intelligences and graph our unique profile. This information can help us understand our strengths and give us ideas for leveraging them to assist us in areas that are more challenging for us. We are talking about which of the intelligences we use most to succeed at the tasks we are undertaking. This is just the tip of it all, of course, because a lot more happened than can be covered in one posting. We are having fun, we are learning, we are enjoying each other, and new friendships are hatching in a peaceful environment...hallelujah.
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