Student Bloggers

Each month, we have students add a post to our blog - this month's bloggers have been Willow and Everett:

In the morning, we do morning Circle and we all give each other a greeting. And Charlie taught a game called” honey I love you." Everybody Totally cracked up 😂.We had our first Writers Workshop.And second gardening class!As usual,we did our Specials [Art, PE, drama class] We did reader's workshop, and shared some stuff about our identity!We shared about some things we like, And who we are! And we learned a lot more about each other To help everyone in the class know each other Better! And then our favorite part of the day, lunch!😋I love Lunch on  Thursdays and have the Drumming with Mr. Yingwana, its So fun! On Tuesdays we have library and it's so fun because in 4th grade you can have 4 books .

~ Willow and everett

Global Climate Strike

Our 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade classes participated in the Global Climate Strike on September 20th by marching around the Sunnyside neighborhood.  We received a lot of supportive smiles, thumbs up, and honks. We also had a guest speaker (Charity, Kaya's mom) talk to us about steps we can take at school and at home to reduce our energy use and combat climate change. Learning about climate change will be something with integrate throughout the year.  I am adding a few links to the blog this weekend to support the learning at home.

African Drumming

Our class started African drumming with Mr. Yingwana on Thursday.  I actually shouldn't call it drumming because it will entail so much more: singing, dancing, storytelling, and learning about South African culture.  Mr. Yingwana was born and raised in South Africa.  He was very involved in the anti-apartheid movement in the 1970s and 80s.  The kids enjoyed their first time with Mr. Yingwana by getting their first experience with polyrhythms.

Second Week!

This week, some of the students got to share their Identity Bags.  These bags contain items that help express the unique identities of each student.  As we learn more about our individual identities, we start to see commonalities that give rise to our class identity.

We also spent much of our math time doing math challenges and learning about the ways that math can change our brains.