Hello, Parents!
A couple of highlights from today:
Ask
your child about what we did after Read-Aloud to simulate Timothy
Frisby's walk to Thorn Valley. (A: we walked through the thick grass
instead of taking the bike path -- about 200 yards -- to understand how
difficult it must have been for a teenage field mouse to set off on his
own and walk 30 miles to get to Thorn Valley to attend the rats' school
-- all the while needing to keep an eye out for hawks and weasels and
foxes. I then had the kids turn around and run back to the playground
while I ran after them flapping and crying out like a hawk.
We also had Morning Meeting in our classroom garden to
take full advantage of the autumn sun. We will be planting spinach and
brussel sprouts with the help of our school gardener, Andrew. We'll be
doing all the math involved with counting out the days we have left to
grow something (about 55) -- talking about tens and ones and days
elapsed and days still to go.
Have a good night. Mr. B.
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