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Science:

Nash opened our day with prayer. We watched a short video from Dr. Binocs reviewing what clouds are and their various forms. Next, we had fun diving into our activity. Using cotton balls, we formed various cloud formations (cumulus, stratus, and cirrrus) adding them to our blue sky paper with labels. Then we used cotton balls and gray paint to create our precipitating cloud formations (nimbus, cumulonimbus, and stratonimbus) before labeling them on our sky paper. As the students took turns finishing up their painting, they also worked on a sheet with 4 types of clouds attempting to label them all correctly. When we reviewed at the end of class, everyone who tried got them correct! Way to go! At recess we used our big bright sky outside to do some more cloud identificatinos. Prepare to hear some scientific commentary of clouds this week :)

Geography:

It’s my favorite day of the month for Geography: presentation day! The students let me know they share my enthusiasm, which makes me love it x2. The students each presented their Africa country today with such professionalism. They even brought in their own additions like Moroccan Tea, Egyptian alphabet handouts, and prayer cards for Uganda. I sent the videos out this evening, so if you didn’t received your student’s videos just let me know before next week and I’ll try it again. I can’t tell you what a joy it is to see the students grow by leaps and bounds each time they present!

IEW:

Nash and Kaden read their Animal Homes final draft before we all turned them in. I introduced our new unit: Writing from Pictures. Again, the students will have two options this week, so be sure to check those out on the homework. We came up with the “Central fact” for our first picture together and then spent the rest of the class recording our own observations/imaginations in our KWO to use in our story this week. This unit will utilize a bit more creativity of which the students have plenty. As I walked around the class to assist, I noticed the students one by one move from locked gears trying to figure out how to start into smooth moving story machines. I can’t wait to see what they come up with! If your student is struggling to get going, encourage them to use their outline and pictures to narrate the story orally to you before they begin writing. Often this opens the floodgates of ideas before reeling it in through written form.