Indigenous Peoples’ Day
Please read:
https://americanindian.si.edu/nk360/informational/columbus-day-myths
Thank you for all of the donations. Our bin is overflowing with donations from you and from teachers as well! We will take it all to Hope House next week.
Religion: Students read about Blessed Pier Giorgio Frassati and his devotion to the poor. Fifth graders studied the Beatitudes and how they can demonstrate them in their own lives.
Math: Students are working on long division with one and two-digit divisors and remainders.
Literacy: Students are reading The Birchbark House, taking notes, and getting used to answering literal and inferential questions. Some are making connections to other books they’ve read. It is quite a large step to go from reading for entertainment to analyzing literature, but we will get there!
Writing: Students are writing the rough draft of their five paragraph Greatest Fear paper. Next week we will get into peer editing.
Social Studies: (OSPI: Since Time Immemorial): Students are in the beginning stages of their Causes of Conflict Unit. They are presented with various problems for which they must find the causes. They will also study the civic, geographical, historical, and economic impacts of those problems. We will be working on this for quite a while. The three subjects they chose from were the Navajo Code Talkers, Dr. Susan LaFlesche Picotte, and the low salmon population and its impact on the Lummi.
STEAM: Students put their finishing touches on their shadow projects and worked on a problem solving, team building activity. Students had a limitation (no verbal communication), a time constraint (10-30 seconds), and one goal for a team of three (put a rubber band around the cup using only yarn). Students did observations to see what tactics worked and afterwards, they discussed why they were able or not able to achieve their goal. Erick said that it wasn’t just a STEAM exercise, but a religion lesson as well!
