Peregrine Press

March 9-13

 

Schedule

Monday:  Running Club

Tuesday:  Out and About to Beal Pond (Nature Study)

Wednesday:  PE at Pacific

Thursday: Art

       

                                                                                                                          

Last Week

Wow.  What a week!  The Treasure Books were completed and turned in and we held our first ever World Fair.  The students presented their World Fair Projects to the class on Wednesday and Thursday.  It was a more formal presentation in the sense that each group took 5-15 minutes to present to the whole class, one group at a time.  I was very pleased with the effort that most of the groups put forth to ensure they were prepared and organized.  Friday's World Fair was a great success.  Every class from the school attended and many parents were able to come as well!  We had a few minutes to debrief after we cleaned up and the majority of the students felt very positive about the project.  Some complained that I wouldn't let them sit during the fair and some didn't like it when people would just come and eat the food but not ask about the country they studied. J  Other than those complaints though the overwhelming majority loved it and they should all be very proud of themselves.

 

Our Out and About to Old College Hall on Tuesday was very interesting and engaging.  The students learned a great deal about our local history and the geographic themes of place and movement.  We heard a great story about Tabitha Brown who is known as the mother of Oregon and the students learned about the Kalapuya Native Americans that lived in this area before the Oregon Trail brought many Europeans.

 

This Week

This coming week we are shifting into Independent Projects.  Most of the students already turned in their proposals to me for the project they would like to do but I am still missing 7.  Please have your child fill out the form I sent home last week titled "Independent Project Proposal."  On one side it explains the project and has deadlines so I will give the form back to you all so you will know what is expected, but I do need to have the proposal turned into me so I can approve the project they want to do.  This is one of the highlights of the year for students because they get to research and present on something they personally are very interested in.  They will be responsible for writing a thorough report (expository essay) creating a model/poster/book (some sort of physical product) and then delivering a speech.  They will have time in class to research on the computers but they may have additional work they will do at home if they want to make their project even better, or if they don't use their time wisely in class.

 

Our Out and About will be a nature study at Beal Pond.  We will look at what a wetland is and compare it to Ash Street Field, which Metro is turning into a wetland.  We will do some bird identification and make some observations about changes we have seen since last year's visit (for returning students) or just some observations we find interesting.

We will also be starting another round of literacy circles.