Last week was full of anticipation as we wrapped up our pieces for the Art Show, as well as our research books for our Celebration of Learning. Thank you parents who came on Thursday night AND Friday morning to appreciate all of the hard work by our artists, scientists, writers, and amazing human beings!
After the Art Show opening, the Temescalians returned Friday morning to take a closer look and to do a See, Think, Wonder thinking routine and sketch. Thank you again, Julianne, for your guidance and hard work!
Writing workshop this week focused on editing, typing, and getting our research into published form. After the main sections were complete, students had the opportunity to write and illustrate “extras” for their non-fictions books including a glossary, index, about the author pages, life cycle diagrams, quizzes, bulleted facts, and more! We started off the week with a Rocket Write, and also sorted and wrote spelling patterns for Words Their Way.
Mike subbed and got to hear our summaries of The Rickshaw Girl before we finished it up!
Drafting questions for Mitali Perkins.
We finished our interactive read aloud, Rickshaw Girl, to prepare for the author visiting TBS next week. As we read we collected vocabulary words, and then we summarized the storyline, brainstormed questions for the author, and visualized. The Temescalians are super excited and prepared to meet author, Mitali Perkins, on Wednesday. For the Read-a-thon we will be exploring and charting genres.
In math we finished our unit on data collection and representation, and will continue to work on how to engage with and draw conclusions from a variety of graphs. Next week we start our study of measurement, area, and perimeter.
Our science has been integrated with writing as we take on the point-of-view of our plant an animals and explore how they are all connected in the food web in our local ecosystems. As a tie in with cultural studies, we are going to have a design-build challenge of making our shelters inspired by the Ohlone from local, abundant, and natural materials like plants and rocks.
This Week . . .
Thursday—Book Swap:
Mindful walking activity in Temescal.
