Week of January 27th

We started reading new books this week in Language Arts.  The students are reading one of three nonfiction books on an ancient civilization.  Instead of writing summaries for their book, with which the students have become experts, they are working in a small group to write skits for small sections of their book that will educate others who aren't reading their books.  They created and presented their first skits this week, and what a great job they did in such a short amount of time.  The students are very excited about their books and the skits.  Below are some pictures of the teams with some of their props from their first skit.  We expect to present some of their skits in Gathering on our next sharing day.  We will keep you posted about that. 

 

The Groovy Greeks!

The Rotten Romans!

Julius Caesar from the front (with a knife tip)

Julius Caesar from behind with the hilt of the knife!

The Awesome Egyptians!

 

Students in the "green" math group have been very successful multiplying multi-digit numbers (problems like 368x37). They have been so successful, in fact, that we had to celebrate. At the end of math class, we had a quick dance party! Here are some pictures from that! Excitement about math...I LOVE IT!