The Hispanic Heritage celebration went really well. Our table on Ecaudor looked great, and the students had the opportunity to walk around with their buddies and explore artifacts from other countries, like Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Chile and Columbia. In other classroom news, the class has finished their first stories that we've taken all the way through the writing process, beginning with exploring ideas in writer's notebooks, to drafting, revising, editing, and finally publishing and sharing with the class. Students wrote about a range of things, from summer vacations to birthday parties to ghost stories to sea slugs. I've also seen some great writing in the Beverly Cleary books we made. Miya and Alicia used a great simile, saying a bike was "as red as a strawberry," and George and Javier set their story up like a journal, skipping weeks or months in between chapters. The class has also been learning about the up-coming elections. We talked about the electoral college today and a mock election between Halloween and Christmas. Christmas won the popular vote, but whe I divided the students up into "states," Halloween was the winner.
The class had a lot of fun this past week experimenting with mealworms. Above, we are conducting an experiment to see whether they like white or blue paper better. We went through most of the steps of a scientific experiment: writing out a question, hypothesis, variables, observations, and conclusions. This even inspired Andy to conduct his own experiment on whether mealwoms liked lettuce or apples better when he took them home for the night!
The Hispanic Heritage celebration went really well. Our table on Ecaudor looked great, and the students had the opportunity to walk around with their buddies and explore artifacts from other countries, like Mexico, Puerto Rico, Spain, Chile and Columbia. In other classroom news, the class has finished their first stories that we've taken all the way through the writing process, beginning with exploring ideas in writer's notebooks, to drafting, revising, editing, and finally publishing and sharing with the class. Students wrote about a range of things, from summer vacations to birthday parties to ghost stories to sea slugs. I've also seen some great writing in the Beverly Cleary books we made. Miya and Alicia used a great simile, saying a bike was "as red as a strawberry," and George and Javier set their story up like a journal, skipping weeks or months in between chapters. The class has also been learning about the up-coming elections. We talked about the electoral college today and a mock election between Halloween and Christmas. Christmas won the popular vote, but whe I divided the students up into "states," Halloween was the winner. 
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