Plants, Animals, and a Harp Concert

Last week was full of fun stuff. We started learning animal names in Spanish. And the students now are able to listen to and understand a whole book about animals and colors in another language! We also were very fortunate to have a visit from a harp player, who played a beautiful recital for us on Thursday.

In Literacy, we had several different books being read, including My Friend Rabbit, the Princess and the Pea, and the Clubhouse Mysteries. Our Literacy Circles are moving along smoothly, with everyone being actively engaged in improving their reading skills with books that are challenging for them.

The students also did some excellent writing this week. In anticipation of our Lantern Walk on Thursday, October 25th, we talked about what it means to "bring our light" into the world, and the students wrote stories about people in need receiving help from kind individuals.

In Math, we solidified our addition and subtraction skills, with the whole class helping one another to master the concepts of carrying over and borrowing. Everyone showed improvement over the week in the Quiz that we took on Thursday.

For Science, we have been talking about plants, their characteristics, and how they have adapted to life in the environments where we may find them. Learning about plants is part of a larger project that we will be continuing into the next week. It will involve taking photographs of plants and identifying their different parts.

In the coming week, we will have a professional photographer visiting the class throughout the week to teach us about photographic composition. We also have our second hiking field trip on Wednesday, October 23rd, where we will be going to the Slide Trail. And we will be working with the 8th graders from Ms. Amber's class to build our lanterns for the Lantern Walk.

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