In and around testing this spring, we have celebrated Poetry Month by doing poetry readings nearly every morning. Students are gaining confidence and speaking with more animation and use of natural gestures. In addition, we are reading a wide variety of poems together in class. I hope the students are sharing the poems with you at home. Look in the reading section of your child's 3-ring binder! Finally, this week we started writing some poetry inspired by images created by a local artist, Yoshiko Yamamoto.
Our social studies unit on the colonial period continues with students using colonial manners and the simulation progressing with all four groups surviving so far. The students read the relevant chapters in the text and take OPEN-BOOK TESTS.
Meanwhile they are doing the Science a Closer Look OPEN-BOOK TESTS at home. To get them all done in a reasonable time--and before the SBA science test--I said they should have chapter one turned in last Friday (April 27),
Our social studies unit on the colonial period continues with students using colonial manners and the simulation progressing with all four groups surviving so far. The students read the relevant chapters in the text and take OPEN-BOOK TESTS.
Meanwhile they are doing the Science a Closer Look OPEN-BOOK TESTS at home. To get them all done in a reasonable time--and before the SBA science test--I said they should have chapter one turned in last Friday (April 27),
- chapter 2 on May 4,
- chapter 3 on May 11,
- and chapter 4 on May 18.
