It was fun day today! And guess what!... we had fun!! But the fun wasn't just reserved for Friday. There have been lots of great experiences this week! A special ocean dome came to the school on Monday and we got our own little private iMax experience! The group who brought the dome also had loads to teach us about local animals and tropical animals. We were thrilled with the hands-on learning and had so many great questions! In Math, we deepened our knowledge of shapes this week by learning about the differences between 2D and 3D shapes. We created all kinds of different shapes out of toothpicks and marshmallows, and even realized that we could combine shapes to create various structures. "Look, Madame! It's a house!" "I made a fire pit for roasting marshmallows!" "Mine's a car!" "I made a chair!" So many great ideas... A couple of weeks ago, we did some drawings and sent them off to the high school for one of the art classes to replicate with clay. The results were way better than we could have expected! So, so cool!! A huge "mercy" to Carla, the art teacher, for spearheading this project and to the high schoolers for doing such an amazing job! Some of them were even former PME students! The high schoolers came to us on Wednesday with their gifts and then we enjoyed learning some origami techniques with them, as well. It has been an art-filled week, as we are also making backgrounds/sets for our upcoming play performances, and have been prepping obstacles for the annual "Guinea Pig Olympics" next week. And we tried out a new playground! The jury's still out on whether it's as good as the other one we've been going to, but we definitely had a fun time! We also learned to play a new game this week!... Pokèmon! Ok, so it's not really a "new" game, but most of us who collect cards don't actually know how to play the game by its true rules. Madame invited some special guest speakers - her two sons - to walk us through how to play. A game board isn't really needed, but it gives us a visual for organizing the cards. It turns out that this is an amazing game for practicing our reading and math skills! Extra photos...
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