Manoa Mountains News for November 15, 2007
The Manoa Mountains have been busy selecting work samples to place in their portfolios and writing reflections about what each shows about them as learners. We will continue this process until all of the portfolios are ready for conferences.
Tomorrow we will attend the Honolulu Theater for Youth's production of "Obake" at Tenney Theater. It should be an interesting and exciting show!
On Monday the Manoa Mountains will share their Math Adventures beginning at 10:00 AM. There should be parking in the Wilcox Circle for any parents or grandparents who can attend the presentations. We are looking forward to some very challenging math problems and creative solutions.
Yesterday we were treated to a visit by Graham Salisbury, who wrote the book Under the Blood Red Sun, which we are reading and discussing as a class. The Manoa Mountains made posters about his writing style to decorate the dining hall, where he spoke. Many were inspired by his stories about growing up on this island, and several asked questions about his writing.
The children are continuing to work on their Thanksgiving stories and poems during Writer's Workshop. They are enjoying writing about their memories of past celebrations and expressing their feelings in their writing.
Our Literature Circle groups are doing a great job of helping each other understand the stories we have been reading. By discussing the stories, they have helped each other to answer the comprehension questions correctly and to create their plot picture stories and reports. Today they selected one set of papers to place in their portfolios and wrote a reflection about their work.
Our Reading Logs have been quite well done, and the Manoa Mountains are including more specific details from the stories they have been reading in their summaries and response choices. They have selected an example of a summary and a response page to place in their portfolios already.
The math work continues to move along nicely, and the third graders are still working on number combinations of three-digit numbers which add to 1,000. Many story problems have challenged them to use their understanding of their computational skills and conceptual understanding to solve the problems.
Our next excursion will be to see another Honolulu Theater for Youth production, Christmas Talk Story, at Tenney Theater on November 29.
Then we will begin preparations for the Christmas Program, which will be on December 19th at 6:00 PM in Bakken Auditorium. Details about clothing requirements will be sent home by Mrs. Koshi.
Posted on November 15, 2007 6:06 AM | Permalink