June 6-9

This week we played a new drama game, in which one person begins to make a tableau by declaring what they are (i.e. "I am a tree.") Then a second person adds to the scene ("I am a squirrel under the tree.") and then a third person adds to it ("I am a nut the squirrel is eating."). Then the first and second person leave the scene and the tableau is built again starting from the last person ("I am a nut.")

In Daily 5, we talked about blending consonants with the letters s, l and r. We did our martian word game again, with words that contained these blends. We also had a visit from a librarian from Lillian Smith library.

We began a mapping project as part of our exploration of urban communities. The project asks each student to make a map of an imaginary community, with roads, parks, homes and businesses. These components are added as paper cut-outs, and explained in a legend. The collage maps offer a chance to think about how the different places in an urban community relate to one another.

In math we continued to focus on "tens" and "ones". We did individual and partnered problem-solving with questions involving boxes of 10 markers, which asked the students to switch back and forth between groups of ten and single units.