Saturday, April 14, 2018

This Week in Review - April 9 - 13

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

We started one of my favorite units in math this week - probability, sampling, and estimation. Children have started with pretty simple whole-group exercises of drawing colored chips from bags, collecting data, and making predictions about what is in the bag after a number of draws. Wendy’s 5th/6th math class visited on Tuesday to give a mini-lesson on ratios, which actually worked in pretty nicely with what we’ve been talking about!



Children in both Grace’s class and our class are working separately yet collaboratively in important project work this week. We are coming close to finishing our buildings in cardboard city (Ant Arbor?) and may soon be ready to put it all together. Signs, decorations, and painting happened this week - very exciting! We also started our pen pal project - our city characters (puppets) are drafting letters to Grace’s city characters. In the next week or so, mailboxes will pop up and correspondences will begin! Students are also working on their maps.

On Friday, we took over 100 items to The Back Door Food Pantry on Packard Road. Children loaded the buses with all of the bags, and then loaded them into the pantry. While there, they learned about the important work the volunteers there do, and other ways they can help. Most importantly, we learned that it is never “bad” to need help or a hand up sometimes - it can happen to anyone. We are all here to help each other.






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