Peregrine Press
February 23-27
Schedule
Monday: Running Club; Please return Treasure Book Order Forms ASAP (I passed them all out last week.)
Tuesday: Out and About to Ash St. Field or B Street Farm
Wednesday: PE at Pacific University
Thursday: Art
Friday: Homework Due
*If anyone can volunteer by helping walk the students over to Pacific University on Wednesdays until April 15th we would greatly appreciate it. The students have this great opportunity to have PE at Pacific, but it means that us teachers have to forfeit our prep/planning time in order to get those students over there. The role of the volunteers would be to simply walk our class over to Pacific University's Athletic Center right after lunch and then walk them back to school after PE is over. Volunteers would not be required to teach any part of PE. Please let me know if you have any questions or if you will be able to help. All Level 2 and 3 Classes will be walking over at the same time so the sidewalks will get a bit hectic. J The time required would be 12:35-2:15 give or take a few minutes.
Last Week:
Last week the students were incredibly productive! The main activities continued to be the Treasure Book rough drafts and the World Fair group work time. I was pleased every day to see the majority of students managing their time properly and working hard to do their best work. The tri-folds they are making are looking really beautiful and I can't wait for them to show off all their hard work at the World Fair. They spent several days in the computer lab typing their research to make professional looking boards. They are really computer savvy!
On Tuesday we headed out for a quick tour of some local restaurants that serve foods from different parts of the world. The students asked interesting questions and were very well behaved!
We also had to say goodbye to Beth. She returns to Korea on Monday. She taught us a Korean game called Gongi that was a really fun way to end the week, and her stay here. The month she was here flew by but it was a great experience for everyone and she will really be missed.
This Week:
The students will start the final draft of their Treasure Books finally! This is the last step of this project and it will be due on March 6th. They will have 3 days this week and 3 days the following week to finish. If they want to type it, they may, but they will have to do that at home which means they will have alternative writing activities to do at school during Treasure Book time.
They will have some more time to work on their World Fair projects as well, however, more of the focus will be on teaching more geographic concepts. They will learn about different kinds of regions and human-environmental interactions. The interactions will also be tied into our Out and About on Tuesday. We are hopefully going to become site stewards for Ash St. Field, but there are some complications this week, which means we might practice what being a site steward would look like at B St. Permaculture Farm.
After looking at their weekly goal reflections it appears that some students are ready to start new goals so we may spend a bit of time working on our goal reflections and selection of new goals. As we get ready for Independent Project starting March 9th I would like the students to start thinking about a project they may want to do that would incorporate a goal they made for the year.
It has also become evident that several students need to practice their spelling more. We will start doing an additional day of spelling activities.
Celebrations of Learning March 4th
This will be an opportunity for students to show their World Fair Projects and the almost finished Treasure Books! Like the celebration in December, we invite you to bring a treat to share. Please bring your own mug. The theme for this month is "A Green Forest Grove."
March 6th will be the official World Fair. You are invited to attend between 11:30 and 12:30. All students will be there presenting their information.
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