Highlights of the Weeks of September 6th and September 16

We talked about our daily planner and expectations of the school day.
We started the school year off with field trips to the York Fair 9/7 to see the livestock and birthing animals and poultry.
Field Trip to Clyde Peeling Reptile Land.
Chapters 1 In Beast Academy we learned about pirate numbers (Place Value). Practice pages 7-11 online and in the practice book.
We have started reading out loud “Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets” by JK Rowling.
We started a review of the Ancient World with why we study history and the first nomads. Chapter 1 in the Story of the World.
We started our Sea Monkey experiment Artemia Salina and are waiting for them to hatch in 5 days.
In our math story in the Life of Fred, we learn about concurrent lines, squares, rectangles and parallelograms, what a billion looks like and ordinal and cardinal numbers.
We are digging out a T-rex (plaster) and talking about palentology.
In our reading instruction All about Reading, we start on Level 1; Chapter 30 and 31, we discuss the three leap words or, for and no and did a reading and matching activity.
We kicked off HWT Cursive Kickoff writing with a pre-test and same as capitals, pages 7-8.
We have started collecting acorns falling from the trees and have started sketching them in our sketchbook.
We have practiced sentences in our journal.
Group movement class on Mondays from 5-6.
In practical life Cecelia walks dogs and walks between 4-5 miles a week.
Created a rune alphabet and we decoded sentences.
Read aloud “Ramona and Beezus” by Beverly Cleary, Chapter1.
In Social and Emotional Learning, we talked about thinking thoughts and feeling feelings We Thinkers Social Explorers and introduced some of the concepts in a series of books we will be reading.