Week in Review by the Weekly Bloggers

On Tuesday we had a trip to Inwood Park.  It started by hiking over the Henry Hudson Bridge to a part of the forest so we could play and be creative.  A lot of people built bows and arrows and John, our gym teacher came along and helped us climb a tree with a parent named James.  Later on we went to a rock by the water and sat there for lunch.  It was so cool because you literally saw the water wash up on the rock.  The rest of the day we saw caves, tulip trees, held shells (Native American trash) and onion grass.  Look at what our favorite parts of our trip to Inwood Park were by clicking on this link.

This is the cave in Inwood Park.

This is the bridge that we walked on and we took this picture on the rock where we ate lunch.

In Science we measured the circumference of the tree and the crown spread of tree that we are studying.  Last week we each made a list of trees that we wanted to learn about and with those results, Jessica and Alexa made groups for us.  There are two groups with Alexa, two groups with Michael, and two groups with Jessica.  Yesterday was the first day of our tree study.

In Ethics we are learning about stereotypes.  We are collecting pictures of Native Americans and how people sometimes disrespect them by showing Native Americans in funny cartoon pictures.  They do a “play on words” to say things that didn’t actually happen like, “Are you going to do the rain dance when you aren’t camping?”. They also dress the people in ways that aren’t true (like with feathers) or make the people look really strong and fierce.  They also show their homes as teepees but in this area they lived in longhouses and wigwams.  If you see any images of Native Americans, please bring them to our classroom (303). Here are some examples of images we found.

Make sure your Halloween's a scare! See y'all later!

CF and MT