Martin Luther King, Jr. Day on Monday. No class for 2nd grade.
A reminder that students need to bring some type of earbuds or headphones to use with the NetBooks, iPods, & iPads each week. Students can bring them back and forth in their backpacks if they choose. I also have baggies to keep everyone’s earbuds separated into a larger class baggie. Students have had their noses to the grindstone all week.
I have been reading The Odyssey to grades 2-5. Odysseus finally got to his home island of Ithaca after 19 years of wandering. He is in disguise staying with the pig farmer. The pig farmer is loyal to Odysseus. Athena went to get Telemachus (Odysseus’ son) who was off searching for information about his father. When Telemachus arrived at Ithaca, Athena sent him to the pig farm. There is major trouble brewing at Odysseus’ home. Young suitors are trying to get Penelope to marry them. They are making a mess of the royal house. Not to mention eating up all the food stores and drinking all the wine.
I read Pinduli to 1st grade. It is a story about a young hyena who is made fun of by other animals of the savannah. The overall theme is to accept people who are different than you. Differences are a good thing and not to judge people by how they look.
Grades 3-5 did a Mensa for Kids Poetry Study. We studied the poem “No Man is an Island” John Donne. There is a video of Martin Luther King, Jr. quoting this poem during the Civil Rights Movement.
The app of the week was Glass Towers 2. You have to use logic and problem solving to get rid of the blue glass blocks while retaining the red glass blocks. It sounds simple, but it is not.
Next week we will do a mini lesson on Martin Luther King, Jr.
1st and 2nd grades participated in a symposium. What talented students we have! They were all so respectful of each other.
First grade is only 3 compliments away from a COMPLIMENT PARTY!!!
Here’s where every class stands.
First 12 out of 15
Second 5 out of 15
Third 8 out of 15
Fourth 2 out of 15
Fifth 5 out of 15
