Tilly, a squirrel, is not being very nice to Mona when she becomes a maid. Mona doesn’t know why!
Book Report: Missy Piggle-Wiggle and the Sticky-Fingers Cure
The Winter Effluvia (a magical disease that makes people and animals do strange things, like float in the air), has affected the house and the animals. Missy also has to give children cures for their habits: usually magical candies or vitamins or potions.
For example, the Sticky-Fingers Cure (which is the one this book is named after) was given to a boy who liked to take things from other children, and it caused things to cling to him. Eventually he learned to not take things.
Book Report: The Silver Balloon
Gregory ties a index card with his name and address on it to a silver helium balloon and lets it go out of his window. Three weeks later a envelope arrives addressed to Gregory. A person named Pete has found his balloon! Gregory writes back and the two of the become pen pals, Exchanging mystery gifts in their weekly letters. When a mystery gift comes and Gregory can’t figure it out he heads to the Museum of Science and Industry where they put the artifact (Saber Toothed Tiger tooth) on display.
Naturalist Report: Alice’s Trush, also known as Grey-Cheeked Thrush
Name (First Name, Last Initial) Aaron A Age 9 What did you find? Alice’s Trush, also known as Grey-Cheeked Thrush Where did you find it? The Grove Nature Preserve How did you find it? In a class, the teacher was telling
Weekly Summary: Metal Tooling – Quarks – Art
Last week we experimented with metal tooling. Each kiddo created their own design on paper first. We then taped that over a piece of heavy gauge aluminum and used paint brush handles to trace over that design effectively embossing the
Weekly Summary: Nature Story telling – Neutrons – Nature Study
This week we took our story-telling skills from last week and honed in on natural elements to weave into our stories. We attempted to take a hike, but the trail we chose was a bit wet, to say the least,
Weekly Summary: Rocks – Quarks – STEM
We continued our rock discussions this week. We began with a classification activity where they had to cut and paste pictures of rocks and decide if they were igneous, metamorphic or sedimentary. There were some healthy discussions about how how
Weekly Summary: Pi Celebration – Electrons and Neutrons – STEM
In honor of Pi Day (3/14) we spent STEM discussing all things pi. We had a reading of Sir Cumfrence and the Dragon of Pi and then played a dice game based on the digits of pi. I had another
Weekly Summary: Paragraphs Part 1: Evidence! – Muons – Writer’s Workshop
As we’re beginning to draft our essays, I reviewed the basics of evidence and its role in argument (generally) and body paragraphs (specifically). Most students REALLY struggle with finding and explaining evidence, so I tried to normalize that struggle. Indeed,
Weekly Summary: Lunges – Muons and Electrons and Neutrons – Gym
The focus of this week’s class was lunges. We talked a bit about form and what muscles are involved (quadriceps and gluts are the main ones but the core along with some calf muscles are also very important! The muons