11/4

SCIENCE:
We read from Louie Giglio's devotion about the solid Rock that is our God and then Kaden opened the class in prayer. We had a few super helpful parents join us today for our experiment so we jumped right into it. We went over some safety measures and then headed out to the parking lot and broke GEODES! The students did really well with this and were so excited when they finally cracked it! Some cracked quickly (more hollow) and others took a while (more solid), but oh how I loved watching the excitement of as they held their little real life wonders. Parents, thank you SO MUCH for helping out today - we couldn't have done it without you! As we finished, we began to hypothesis about how these geodes were formed. Once back in the class, we watched a video about Geodes and discussed our reading from the week. We paid particular attention to the three different types of rocks: Igneous, Metamorphic, and Sedementary. Then we did a little table team show-and-tell with the rocks that the students brought to class - they were SO COOL! The students were able to identify which type of rock they were showing ...we clearly have a few rock collecting experts in the class and I think we may have made a few new ones too. We read from a book called "Rocks are Lively" to add some fascinating facts to our expertise. I reminded the students to study for their quiz next week & bring their textbooks and then we were off to recess!

GEOGRAPHY:

Kaden led us in the flag salute and then chose a clue card that led us to the Southern Ocean! We read "How to Bake an Apple Pie & See the World" (a personal favorite) and discussed our missionary books - they are looking great! This week our homework will be to read the books other students have made. I really hope you all get a chance to see these. I can tell the students worked hard on them and the stories of these missionaries are worth telling! The table teams each completed two of our "World" centers today. They all worked really hard on their tasks & it was so fun to see them working together! At the end of class we had a handful of students participate in the children's choir audition.

IEW:

We started our IEW time with our new memory verse. I returned their final drafts and many of them earned an extra punch for getting full credit - way to go! We put on our "editing glasses" and spent some time learning how to revise our rough drafts. We spent some time talking through what why we add these dress-ups and decorations. We ended up creating an impromtu song with different beats to show how the variation made the song interesting and fun to listen to. Then, I passed out the FD checklist so we could remember what we needed to include and we reviewed each piece together. It was clear that they worked hard on these drafts. Everyone who brought one was very eager to participate and the stories themselves were filled with dress-ups! We addressed banned words, dress-ups (strong verbs, adjectives, -ly words), sentence opener (-ly word). The students then read their stories aloud for the TableTeam and gave each other feedback. We finished off by taking some time to dream up our morals and titles. It was a wonderful seeing the students take ownership of their work and dig into their own rough drafts to craft a masterpiece!

We missed you Lily F.!