Sewing Book Bags
/Each day our morning starts with project time. This time is important for students to be able to pursue projects of interest, collaborate with peers, and solidify their literacy and numeracy skills. During project time students are also introduced to new activities and potential hobbies. This week on Wednesday Mr. Evan showed us how to use a sewing machine to sew our book bags. For many of us, it was our first time using a sewing machine- what fun! Our books bags are nearing completion. We can’t wait to start using them to bring our books to and from school. This week during project time student engineers worked with Mr. Adam to learn how to draw coding instructions for the Ozobot robot. Several other engineers worked on designing a jail out of Rigamig blocks. In addition, students spent time practicing reading and writing their “ar” words and playing a Dinotracks game that involves building numbers and solving math problems in the thousands.
Each afternoon Ms. Julie visits our class for half an hour to lead us in meditation, music and movement activities, or to help us with classroom projects. This week with Ms. Julie we continued our plans for our winter garden. Students did math to calculate how much tubing we would need for our garden hoops. Last week we wrote a letter to a local company asking for the tubing. Landon’s family company was kind enough to donate the tubing and this week we got to measure and cut the tubing to the correct sizes. We will be discussing as a class what to do with the extra tubing.
We continue to spend time outside every day for whole group work, collaborative projects, investigations, and free choice time. This week we went on a campus walk to admire the beautiful fall trees. We collected the most gorgeous leaves we could find to use for a class art project next week. Yesterday Mr. Mark showed us the inside of the Cedar Classroom gazebo and answered several of our questions. The Cedar Classroom gazebo is beautiful and almost ready to be used on a daily basis! We ended our week together outside at the Plumpers Pumpkin Patch. It was great to see so many parents, grandparents, and siblings there.
