It was our pleasure to celebrate three birthdays this week! We love seeing pictures of our fellow Temescalians for each year of his/her life, share appreciations, and ask questions about him/her as a baby.
We continued our typing intensive with Susan and sent home certificates of completion for the past two weeks’ worth of typing. Temescalians are encouraged to continue their touch typing path with Typing Club over the summer. Please make sure that you watch your Temescalian’s fingers as s/he types to ensure that the “home row” is the resting place for fingers and touch typing is actually being practiced. We heard many comments of, “But my way is easier,” or “Do I have to use touch typing now [when logging into the program]?” Temescalians would practice a lesson on their own first before asking for a teacher check. These checks are paramount for a solid typing foundation that they will build on in the years to come!
Our Celebration of Learning is next Monday, 6/6 and the Temescalians have been fervently preparing for it. We have been typing up our research as well as illustrating and putting our pages in order! We hope that you will be able to join us next Monday! (Please fill out the wiki on the upper right of the blog to sign up for things for the breakfast potluck!)
Our study in math has shifted from measurement to shapes and angles. Temescalians have learned that perimeter means that you add all the sides of the shape together, like a fence. The area, however, is multiplying the length by the width so it’s like you’re finding the inside of something. Shapes can be a confusing thing. Ask your Temescalian to define a polygon (a shape that has straight sides that are connected), quadrilateral (a four sided polygon), and tell you if a square is a rectangle or not (a rectangle has 4 sides and 4 right angles. A square is always a rectangle, but a rectangle is not always a square!) Also, ask your Temescalian about the difference between an acute angle, right angle, and obtuse angle!
Rebecca led us in an encyclopedia scavenger hunt in Information Literacy. Each Temescalian was given a historical person’s name. S/he had to find the volume that would contain that person, find the first entry in that encyclopedia, last entry, first animal. Then write 8 facts about their person and 1 question. Temescalians noticed that as they were searching for their historical person, it was really easy to get distracted by all of the other information in encyclopedias. Another Temescalian made the connection between “Encyclopedia Brown” and why he got that nickname.
Strawberry Creek performed a musical, dramatic, and narrative adaptation of the story of Zaul and Rudabeh from Ferdowsi’s epic Persian poem, the Shahnameh. The performance was an interdisciplinary collaboration between Art and Music, and a guest dance teacher.
A few other snapshots of our week:
