Week of May 27

The push is on to finish creating our secret society and bury our artifacts.  The students had been working furiously on everything.  Here is a little sneak peak of some of our things (we wouldn't want to give away anything to the Serpents, now would we?).  I will reveal the pictures in the next few weeks after the unearthing of the materials. 

 

 

 

We also got the opportunity to work with the PreK students.  We helped them with some work and did feet math with them.  The PreK students taught the 3rd graders what a bird plus a dog would equal.  Do you know?  

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Week of May 12

It is always fun to have grandparents and special friends at school.  The students were able to show off their work from the year, give a bookmark to their visitor, decorate a flower pot and plant seeds, and do some math activities with them in our classroom.  We will do something similar with parents on the last day of school, so plan to be here.  Here are some pictures from our afternoon.

Week of May 5

Did you hear about our gargoyle box?  The kids came into class on Monday to very large boxes sitting under the windows.  There was a sign on the boxes that read, "DANGER! Do not open!  Gargoyles!" There was much excitement and discussion about these gargoyles. 

"When will we open them?"

"Are they real or concrete?"

"Why are they here?"

Much to the students' disappointment, there were in fact, not gargoyles in the box, but we are beginning our big culminating project for the year.  Our class is creating our own culture and will be making a mural and artifacts about this culture.  Once we finish with the art, we will break up the mural and bury everything in the large box in sand.  The Serpent class will be digging up these things (and we will be doing the same thing with their artifacts), and trying to piece together the invented culture.  The students are very excited about this.  Here is a picture of the very large boxes!

 

The students did a great job sharing their poems in Gathering today.  Thank you to the parents who were able to join us!  We spoke in length about public speaking and the best way to do this.  Most of the students were very successful with this. 

 

 

 

 

 



Week of April 28

Our field trip to the Wing Luke Museum last Friday was great.  We went on a walking tour of Seattle's Chinatown, visited the museum, went to the Fortune Cookie Factory, and had lunch at a restaurant in Chinatown.  I am almost positive that the students loved the fortune cookies the most!

 

 

We love sun!  We were lucky enough to have PE at the Centre at Norpoint this week.  Here are some great pictures from the time there.