Weekly Update by Alden and Colin

In science we have been very busy measuring our trees. We are seeing how many of “us” would measure the height of the tree. We marked on a piece of paper how tall our tree is and then we measured how tall we are and found out how many “me’s” fit in the tree using multiplication or addition. Then we estimated how tall the tree is by knowing how tall we are in centimeters. There are numbers all over the place! Click on the play buttons below to hear about how we figured out the height of our trees.

In Social Studies Workshop, we are starting to make designs for our tunics. We brought our iPads to class and used a website that let us bead different colors of our wampum. We liked using the technology in SSW and put the design we created on our iPads onto a piece of a paper.  We’re not sure if we’re going to put this design onto our tunics or if we are going to do  something else.

In art we are painting pots we made out of clay. We are making large coil pots and we glazed them last week. We will be able to take them home after the winter break. We used red clay to make the pots. We like making things with our hands and getting messy!

Today we performed Native American dances and songs at the Winter Assembly. It was really fun.

Happy holidays! Have a great vacation!

CBB and APH

Weekly Update of ALR and HAK

On the fifth of December we figured out how to develop good sportsmanship by having a class kickball game.  The way we made teams was by making kids with even numbers on their mailboxes/iPads on one team and all kids with odd numbers were on the other team.  It was fun and people showed good sportsmanship.  We learned to develop sportsmanship by playing one game, which is crazy.  Everyone said, “Great job!” and shook each others hands.  We also didn't bring up the subject of who won the game.  For the most part, we all had fun and supported each other.

In the middle of December, all three math groups (Jessica and Harry, Jamie and George, and Alexa and Rosemarie) had our first assessment of the year.  This was our first assessment and it was new to us.  Some people were nervous at the start, but while they were doing it they felt a little better.  The math assessment was about place value and what we did during the year so it was a reminder for us.

In science with Michael, our tree study this week has partly been about Latin names for the trees and partly about what uses of the trees there are.  One example of a tree’s use is that the Native Americans used Tulip trees to make dugout canoes.  We used an app called Popplet to brainstorm uses of the trees that our groups are studying. Henry's popplet is of the Redbud and Annika's popplet is of the Tulip Tree. You can see them below.

These are the trees we are studying:

Tree 1: Norway Maple

Tree 2: Sweetgum

Tree 3: Tulip Tree

Tree 4: Eastern White Pine

Tree 5: Eastern Redbud

Tree 6: Northern Red Oak

In Social Studies Workshop we made dessert dumplings out of all natural ingredients and just a little bit of sugar.  When we were making the ingredients everyone had two things to do.

Have a good winter break!

  

THIS WEEK’S NEWS

• WINTER BREAK IS COMING UP...BE READY!

• THIS FRIDAY IS A HALF DAY

• REMIND YOUR CHILD TO BRING SNOW BOOTS AND SNOW PANTS FOR RECESS.

• PRACTICE YOUR RECORDER!

• STAY WARM :)

• BRING YOUR BOOKS FOR LIBRARY!

Weekly Update from the week of December 1st by AG and JS