Yesterday (Friday), we went out to Peppi's Woods with one of the forest stewards, Jana, who led us through planting some native plants in Peppi's. Thank you to the families who came out to help make this happen in an organized fashion. It is so wonderful to be able to spend time outside to learn more about our backyard, Peppi's Woods!
Something different this week was that we had several guests come to observe our classroom! Ms. Trapp (our Resident Teacher) was spending time going to different schools, and other STR Residents came to see how Room 307 works! Students enjoyed having new teachers in the classroom and getting to know some of them. Ms. Trapp will be back with us next week!
This upcoming week, 5th graders will be going to camp from Wednesday-Friday! If you are a 5th grade family, please make sure that your child is packed up and ready to go days in advance. I would spend this weekend packing together, learning how to roll up/pack the sleeping bag, and making sure that everything they need is packed. If you need a packing list, please ask me! If you are a 4th grade family, your child will be with other 4th graders in our school with several substitute teachers. Those three days may look a bit different from our normal schedule in 307, but it should be a good time getting to know other 4th graders at Leschi.
Highlights:
-Writing: we have just a couple more weeks to draft and finish up our realistic fiction stories. Students have been really engaged in this unit and getting to make up many conflicts/struggles for the character in their story to make it really interesting for the reader. This was one of the tips that our guest author gave up when she came to visit on Tuesday. More about that in the Reading section!
-Math: students in Stanford/Princeton groups are working on their chapter review/study guides to prep for our Unit 2 test! Harvard students are working on long division and multiplication - please continue to practice these skills and concepts at home!
-Reading: we had a special guest author come in on Tuesday for a presentation! It was extra special for me because this guest is not only the author of our current read aloud: Something to Hold, but because she was my literacy professor in my graduate program for teaching at Seattle University! Katherine Schlick Noe came to read from her book and share about her life as she wrote about it in her novel. Students were SO excited to be able to meet her and ask her questions about how much of her novel was true. Our class bloggers/journalists took notes during the Q & A session as well as interview her privately. Please look forward to that post coming up! Katherine Schlick Noe is also the author of many teaching books on Literature Circles (book clubs, which I am a huge fan of)! Here is a link to her personal website if you would like to know more about her work: Katherine's website.
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