Salmon and Tessellation Explorations
/This week we added vegetation and alevin to our salmon mural. We wrote about the fry stage of development in our salmon books and started researching the smolt stage. Yesterday we wrote get well cards to an ELC community member. During our morning meetings this week we made plans for a read-in next Friday and started working on word cloud gifts for classmates. We continued collecting canned food and we read a story called Maddi's Fridge about a young girl who struggles with food scarcity. We learned how to play Mancala this week and continued talking about tessellations. We watched segments of the following videos about tessellations: Geometric Transformation Song, Tessellations in Nature, and Pixar the Math Behind the Movie. Today we talked about International Human Rights day and about what type of world we all want to live in. This led to an interesting discussion about how many countries are in the world, how many countries are part of the UN, how long it would take to drive from Texas to Alaska and all sorts of other interesting questions. We used the internet, books, and Google Earth app to answer some of our questions.
