Something Madame says often is how fascinated she is by our sense of curiosity and wonder at this age. Ordinary things are somehow so much more extraordinary through young eyes, and learning feels like an adventure. ...like when a student brought in a combination lock, with an excited twinkle in her eye, just to show Madame how the numbers increase in multiples of 5! ...or the palpable excitement about volcanoes after reading a story in class. Madame had to ask us to sit down because we were jumping out of our seats and just couldn't wait to ask for more information, to see more pictures, to ask more questions... We were especially intrigued by Madame's stories of when she climbed Mt. Vesuvius. We ended up locating it on Google Earth and we decided that we should explore the topic of volcanoes in a little more depth next week, just because there was so much interest. Ryan came up with the helpful idea that should Mt. Baker ever erupt, we could build a wall of ice cream to stop the lava! Our follow-up game of "the floor is lava" was played with a whole new fervor. (Also worth noting, we had a discussion about how, unlike when Mt. Vesuvius erupted, scientists today can give us LOTS of warning before a volcano erupts so that nobody will get hurt). We also wrapped up our inquiry on narwhals and decided to end it off by making narwhals out of clay. We had some very creative models and are excited to bring these home to share with Mom and Dad next week! Our sound of the week this time was "in". We kicked off the lessons with one of our typical Art Hub directed draws. All of these drawings that we have been doing will be made into a book that we will get to bring home in about a month. We also did some more word scavenger hunts and "in" relay races. We've been continuing our work on subtraction in Math and some of us are beginning to subtract with higher and higher numbers each time! This week we also learned about the relationship between addition and subtraction. "It's the opposite!" we yelled excitedly when we figured out the connection. A final big "MERCI!" to everyone for participating so well in student conferences! Having the kids involved in making their own goals helps to make them STRONGER (somewhat like Tyson pictured below) and more involved in their learning.
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