It's June!!!! We are in great shape as we head into the final weeks of the year. Students will begin ERB testing this week, and we will be wrapping up various units and projects across all subject areas. Here are some photos highlighting what we've been up to the last few weeks.
We analyzed and shared our immigration interviews. We've read many books as a class looking at the immigrant experience from multiple viewpoints at various points in time. Students have taken notes comparing and contrasting the books, have gotten to know the characters and created poignant two voice poems relating the immigrant experience of the person they interviewed in their own family to a person in one of our readings. This showed a multi-faceted knowledge of U.S. immigrant history as well as an ability to connect history to modern times.
In math, we have been highly focused on geometry, while reviewing concepts from earlier in the year to refresh our minds for ERB testing.
In science we completed our unit on Space, tying our research into creative writing, art, math, and storytelling. We kicked off our Life Science unit with a bug hunt in the schoolyard, and took detailed field notes on our discoveries. Students were excited to view a familiar territory from a new perspective.
Students all wrote and revised excellent final narrative pieces and have been experimenting with different kinds of poetry, including haiku, personification poems, bio poems, and two voice poems.
We finished reading and analyzing The Mixed Up Files. Students will be working on book reviews, and we have one more class read aloud to fit in before the last day!
Enjoy the photo gallery and stay tuned!
We analyzed and shared our immigration interviews. We've read many books as a class looking at the immigrant experience from multiple viewpoints at various points in time. Students have taken notes comparing and contrasting the books, have gotten to know the characters and created poignant two voice poems relating the immigrant experience of the person they interviewed in their own family to a person in one of our readings. This showed a multi-faceted knowledge of U.S. immigrant history as well as an ability to connect history to modern times.
In math, we have been highly focused on geometry, while reviewing concepts from earlier in the year to refresh our minds for ERB testing.
In science we completed our unit on Space, tying our research into creative writing, art, math, and storytelling. We kicked off our Life Science unit with a bug hunt in the schoolyard, and took detailed field notes on our discoveries. Students were excited to view a familiar territory from a new perspective.
Students all wrote and revised excellent final narrative pieces and have been experimenting with different kinds of poetry, including haiku, personification poems, bio poems, and two voice poems.
We finished reading and analyzing The Mixed Up Files. Students will be working on book reviews, and we have one more class read aloud to fit in before the last day!
Enjoy the photo gallery and stay tuned!