Room 6 Week 24

Hello parents,

Happy Valentine’s Day weekend! I hope you had a great week 🙂

  • On Monday we picked up our conversation about fossils and everyone shared what they had learned at home. We learned about the different ways that organisms fossilize. Students then wrote in their journals about if they thought Khamba’s body could have possibly fossilized or not. This was a great way to bring our investigation full circle — from what made us question fossils in the first place to applying what we had learned.
  • Throughout the week we have been adding to our new map of Africa! As different places are mentioned in The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind, we are finding where they belong on our map. We are also adding various locations or notes based on our other classroom experiences — for example, we read a book titled, Goal!, about boys playing soccer in South Africa so we labeled South Africa on the map and made a note about the book. We will continue to utilize the map (and each student has an individual map they are working on labeling as well!) throughout our study of The Boy Who Harnessed The Wind. By using our novel to guide our geography studies (and cultural studies too), we can make authentic connections to the various map features we label.

  • Also throughout the week, we have been working through various ways to understand fractions — measuring water, fraction circles, fraction bars, and measuring distances.

  • On Friday we learned about the world’s cutest animals (paying extra attention to those in Africa, of course!), made beautiful Valentine’s crafts (including some festive decorations for Cornflake!), built with blocks, played a game called Ha!, and painted rocks…all in our pajamas!

More fun from the week!

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