This Week in Review - October 2 - 5

                                          This information is also found in Walter's weekly email:

Although this was a shorter week, we managed to pack in a lot of learning and fun. In Susan's math group, we continued playing our favorite place value game, and have reached the hundred-millions place - next week, the billions! We are all making really good progress in learning to read really high numbers, and being able to tell the value of a digit by its position in a number. Besides working in the Singapore Math Books, we are also reading The Grapes of Math, as a way to think flexibly about solving number problems. 

We wrote a few more pages in our memory books, recited and illustrated another poem in our anthologies, and are still enjoying our chapter book, Matilda. August and Jackson did an excellent job this week as our Special Readers. We also had fun making "word clouds" as part of our big Identity Project - thinking of nouns and adjectives that describe ourselves, and then using a computer generator to make a sort of art piece until it pleased our artistic eye - fun! 

Science happened both in Science Lab and in the classroom this week. In the classroom, we continued learning about germs and the importance of washing our hands, especially when handling food. We are carefully documenting what happens to a piece of bread over time that has been exposed to unwashed hands (and comparing it to a "control" and to a piece of bread that has been handled by washed hands).