First Name: Sirius Age: 9 Book Title: The Tyrant’s Tomb Author: Rick Riordan Fiction Genres: Fantasy,Humor,Mythology Write three (3) sentences which describe the Setting of the book. Be sure use descriptive words.: The book takes place in the United States. It’s a book about Greek Mythology.
Book Report: Too Many Carrots by Katy Hudson
First Name: August Age: 6 Book Title: Too Many Carrots Author: Katy Hudson Fiction Genres: Short Story Write three (3) sentences which describe the Setting of the book. Be sure use descriptive words.: The book takes place when rabbit likes carrots. He likes carrots
Book Report: Curious George goes to a Chocolate Factory by Margaret and H.A. Rey
First Name: August Age: 6 Book Title: Curious George goes to a Chocolate Factory Author: Margaret and H.A. Rey Fiction Genres: Short Story Write three (3) sentences which describe the Setting of the book. Be sure use descriptive words.: The book takes place in
Book Reports: Room on the Broom by Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler
First Name: August Age: 6 Book Title: Room on the broom Author: Julia Donaldson and Axel Scheffler Fiction Genres: Fairy Tale,Fantasy,Short Story Write three (3) sentences which describe the Setting of the book. Be sure use descriptive words.: The book is in a world
Sociology
Today we introduced sociology as a formal discipline of the social sciences. Sociology is the study of societies and social institutions and our social and behavioral response to them. The sociological imagination involves our ability to understand the relationship between
Focus and Exposure
This week we talked about how important a foundation is when learning anything. Most of the kids worked on practicing with focus and exposure. A few kids continued working on family portraits for our bulletin board.
Pay Day
We had a lot of fun with our “Life Happens” game today! We learned the basics of tracking our spending and got some practice. Everyone had their first pay day and paid their rent. Some of us had to pay
Webs
Writers made plans for themselves & spent some time writing. Then we had a mini-lesson on making Webs as a pre-writing technique…doing one as a group & trying them on their own. We spent some time sharing our writing and
Symmetry
This week we talked about symmetry. The children made so really cool symmetrical designs that are hanging to dry in the art room. They designed one half of a folded paper and then tried to recreate it on the other
Geo Boards
We had a great first day exploring the Geoboards with colorful rubber bands. We started off by doing some simple command instructions which they did. We then moved on to some complex commands. They handled that really well and when