Thursday, October 4, 2012

Discussion Elements

Reminders:
No school tomorrow,  Friday, October 5 - TBS Professional Development Day
No school on Monday, October 8 - Indigenous People's Day

Science Update:  Due to a lengthy delay in receiving special materials for Electricity and Magnetism, we are changing the order of our science studies.  We will be gin Botany as early as next week, and move Electricity to November.  This affects field trips, which have been rescheduled.

Field Trip Updates: 
The Exploratorium trip (announced at Back to School Night for October 25) has been moved to December 6.  We will need drivers for this trip.

UC Botanic Garden (date not previously announced) is now scheduled for November 13.  We will need drivers for this trip as well.

Today in Strawberry:
Our class meeting today focused on "Discussion Elements."  Our goal for meetings and topical conversations is to develop student led open class discussions.

Meeting topic: Discussion Elements for our class meetings.
 Working on our state maps.

 Students chose themes for their maps and are planning the final stages.
 Choice activites:  modeling clay, oil pastels, sewing & knitting.
 Pneumatic soccer.