Hey Everyone!

Posted on December 10, 2013

Hey guys, I know it’s been a long time. Things have been crazy busy around here as usual. It was nice seeing everyone at conferences.

Storyline
We are in full swing in our storyline exploring the things the book this are important. Travel to far away places, come home to live by the sea and make the world more beautiful. We are currently traveling to far away places and they have had the opportunity to think of cool far away places they would like to visit. Now we will bring it closer to home and explore Oregon and how we have a forest, a mountain, a desert and a sea. They will be in groups and create a group presentation about their part of Oregon. I will let you now when we plan to present. It will be after the break. We will then spend the rest of our time focusing on how to make the world more beautiful. We will think about the people in our lives and how thankful we are to have people to do nice things for us. We will also spend some time thinking about Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and his contributions to our world and this year I am also inspired to include Nelson Mandela in that conversation. We will make a decision about something we want to do to make our world a more beautiful place. We will end with a shadow puppet show, more about that below.

Math we are finishing a short geometry unit exploring shapes, geometry vocabulary, perimeter, area and mathematical observations. We will be moving on to multiplication just before the break. Science will be creating Math Machines IF YOU CAN COME BY FRIDAY, DECEMBER 13th at 10:15 Matt would love some assistance in building these machines. They are very cool contraptions that they can race to solve math problems. That doesn’t quite do it justice you will have to see it to understand.

Artist in Residence We are going to use our Creative Arts Run money this year on a shadow puppet artist. She is going to come in and create puppets with us and create some shows based around our Ms. Rumphias storyline. I am very excited and I have always wanted to learn how to do shadow puppets. We have this schedule for the first week of March.