The scene on the playground was festive! What a great evening for Grant School! I want to thank all the staff and family volunteers who organized this special event. The kids have been practicing all week for their performance this weekend at the Roots n Blues BBQ festival. Arts N Blues night helps support the fine arts at local schools and allows Ms. Sission to provide authentic arts experiences and learning opportunities for our All Stars. Way to go, kids! Way to go families! Thanks TJ Wheeler! We will see you this Saturday at Stephens Lake Park.
Our Blues Corps students also kept up with our academic load this week. In reading, we practiced clarifying questions using short magazine articles supporting our community experience. Articles included a piece on closing post offices, and forest firefighters. Next week, we will have more time for reading our fiction books.
For writing/ss, students primarily focused on drafting ideas for their Island Travel Brochure. They used examples of past student brochures to help them brainstorm ideas. Next week, we will create final copies of our Travel Brochures as we prepare to display our island work during the Travel Show next Friday afternoon, October 3. At the Travel Show, we will also reveal our landform quilt from Art class with Ms. Christiansen. Some students will also help edit websites from our Garden Ecosystem display so the display is ready to use at the annual CCUA Harvest Hootenanny. Students also addressed letters to our tour guides for all these field trips. We are sending our helpers a thank you and an invitation to tour the Ecoschoolhouse!
During math, we practiced our large number and decimal subtraction and addition. Most of our numbers and tasks during lessons came from measurements from our bird feeder science experiment or were related to our community experiences. For example, we rounded times from the bus map and compared zip codes the day of the USPS trip. We also had authentic task of subtracting decimals as we figured the weight of bird seed birds were eating out of our feeders. There will be a test over this unit next week.
Science this week consisted of four community field trips. Photos of trips from this "Government Week" are on the CPBL link to the right. This is our last week of trips! We finish with time in the City Council room. In one week, students have stood atop an ancient, immense limestone bluff and viewed historic limestone buildings downtown. We viewed history of the city through art and relics. Next week, we will finish our notes and reflect upon our observations. We will also continue our bird feeder science experiment by looking at results, graphing and conclusions.
Part of my focus next week will also be settling into a classroom routine of all day focused classroom learning. It will be great for our class to enjoy some more class learning time together as we close out a couple projects and look to the rest of the year. I also will be preparing them for a substitute to take over as guest teacher for a time when my new baby daughter is born!
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