Due to PASS testing there is not much of interest to share from our week. The kids spent Tuesday, Wednesday, and Thursday mornings testing and the afternoons reviewing for the next day's test. Certainly not a typical week. The kids did a great job with all this and are happy to be finished. Next week we'll move back to our normal routines. Here's what the rest of the year has in store...
Reading - Novel study of Charlotte's Web; Final book clubs
Writing - Study of songwriting (I hope to have everyone create a song to record on the class CD)
Math - The kids are going to suggest topics they are interested in knowing more about (and some review)
Social Studies - Civil Rights Movement and its impact on life today for people of color
Science - various demonstrations, observing and inferencing, and perhaps a final opportunity to develop and conduct an experiment.
Also, in a few weeks a group of high schoolers are coming from Westwood HS to help us build garden boxes for the playground. This is the first stage of our plans for the CFI Nature Garden. We;ll be measuring, sanding, drilling, and much more. We'll leave the cutting to the high school kids, though. I don't have the exact date just yet but I'll let you know when I find out. If anyone would like to come help us with this project we'd love to have you. Just bring along an electric drill/screwdriver if you have one!
Thanks,
Chris
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