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Peregrine Press

May 26-29

Schedule

Tuesday: Out and About to Safeway (Healthy Eating on a Budget)

Wednesday: Leave No Trace Presentation;ELC; PE

Thursday: Photography at B Street Farm

Friday: Art

***I am waiting for a few more permission forms for the beach and the camping trip. My plan is to get final info out to everyone this week. Many parents have offered to help with whatever is needed and what I am trying to do right now is determine what is still needed. Thanks so much to everyone that is helping with this!

Last Week

We just completed our last full week of school for the year! Our Out and About to Lincoln Park involved a great deal of math and exercise. We started out by calculating our average stride/gait length. Once each student figured that out by using a measuring stick, taking 10 steps and doing some math calculations we were ready to head out to Lincoln Park. When we arrived we all walked around the "Fun Run" Track and counted our steps. This was then used later in conjunction with the average stride length to calculate the distance around the track. It was quite complicated but many of the students began to get a grasp on it. Once we had all walked around the track once, we had Running Club for 30 minutes to see what we could run in that amount of time because the Fun Run will be 30 minutes long.

Becky introduced a literacy program called the Daily 4. It focuses on the different components of literacy including reading to self, reading to someone, writing and word work. I was really surprised and pleased at how receptive the students were to the program because it is so close to the end of the year. I could see it really being a great component of my literacy program for next year as well.

We spent some time looking at food costs and health in preparation for our Out and About to Safeway. Becky created a really fun "Price is Right" game to play to introduce food item costs.

The Forest Grove Grid Project consisted of some photographing through town on Thursday and then all the pictures were uploaded on Friday. The students wrote their weekly summaries on the blog instead of on paper for the week and many chose to do their goal reflections on the blog as well. If you haven't yet seen the site, ask your child to show you. There are some really fun blog posts.

On Friday we also went to spend time with our ELC buddies. They recently started learning about insects so we joined them in creating insects out of clay, buttons and pipe cleaners. It was another great day with our buddies.

This Week

The activities this week will continue to be focused on the Forest Grove Grid Project and Math Life. Our Out and About to Safeway will focus on purchasing food on a budget that is healthy. Tuesday afternoon students that want to, will share their literacy projects. (Everyone was supposed to have completed a project, but it is not required that they present anything in front of the class.) Wednesday we will have a special presentation on a program called Leave No Trace that Laura introduced us to earlier in the year. Wednesday will also be our last day with our Buddies at the ELC which is very sad, but I do hope to continue that again next year. We will head out to B Street Farm on Thursday to get pictures for the FGGP. Friday will be our LAST HOMEWORK AND SPELLING WEEK.

Monday

Tuesday

Wednesday

Thursday

Friday

Saturday

Sunday

No School

(Memorial Day)

Out and About to Safeway

Healthy Shopping on a Budget

Leave No Trace Presentation