This week we are finishing
up a lot of projects. In math, that means the end of math books as of Friday.
This week, we also said goodbye to our final unit of the year, probability,
with a super fun activity, egg roulette. It was a smashing good time! (A longer blog post to follow soon, with pictures provided by amazing math parent helper, Jason!)
It was also a week of
performances. In Music class, the children put on their musical twice – on
Tuesday and Friday. They will do one more repeat performance on Tuesday next
week. The French play, Cendrillon,
was performed beautifully on Thursday afternoon immediately following school.
These were the culminating events of two important “specials” the children
enjoy at Summers-Knoll.
Our cardboard city was
dismantled this week, and buildings and blueprints were taken home. The river
and the bridges were rolled up and recycled. All that is left are some
photographs and a lot of memories. The children learned a lot about city
planning and teamwork during this wonderful project. It was Project Based Learning
in the truest sense of the term.
Our final science time with
Shan was enjoyed on Wednesday and Thursday, as we completed our work with
endangered animals in Michigan. In our classroom, every single child now has a
darkling beetle, and has completed their mealworm observation journal. Enjoy
the beetles at home!
We had two special events
this week – Roger Chard came back in to tell us more about the tools used to
make Braille books and materials. He promised the children he would return
after they were so interested in his first visit when he read to us. We finally
made it happen on Thursday. (A longer blog post about this visit is coming soon.)
And, on Friday, we end the week with cheering our
classmates on at the annual S-K 5-K at County Farm Park.
What a week! Next week we will continue to wrap things
up – portfolios coming home on Monday!
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