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The planets are aligned...

All the Planet Inquiry reports and visuals are complete, and we are ready for presentations.  The students have put their reports on note cards and are practicing their public speaking skills: projecting their voices, making eye contact, and standing still while sharing their reports orally. Look for presentation dates and times coming home with your child.

The students have started their Story-Telling Island project.  They enjoy sharing their imaginative stories and creating maps that show the longitude and latitude of their islands.  They have researched the climates of their island location and the crops and animals that would live there.  They also have a variety of people living on their islands, which should make for interesting stories when they write their creation myths.

In math we have been focusing on decimal addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division.  A few students still need a little practice, which they should get from Mr. Black after school from 2:30 to 3:00 p.m.  The students are also practicing their coordinate plotting and map-making skills.  They have found this to be an interesting activity because they feel they have a better sense of their place on our planet.

Posted on October 26, 2007 12:52 PM | Permalink

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