May 18 - 22

This week was a busy week! Our favorite activities were:
--seeing the storyteller, Eshu, perform. He told old folktales, including one from South Africa that was about a bird that made amasi. Two children lost the bird and went into the woods to find it but they almost got eaten by the zim, instead. He also taught us a fun game that we've been playing in class!
--performing in our poetry cafe today. We recited poems we memorized.
--reading to our k-1 buddies. We went outside to read today and had fun.

Our question to wonder about is:
How hot do you think it was this past week?

May 15, 2009

We haven't been able to write here for a long time because last week most of our class was away at Nature's Classroom! We missed the kids who couldn't come.
We had the GARP award ceremonies this week on Thursday.
In music we played a game where we were blindfolded and had to move through a maze with musical guidance. In gym, we played a similar game, called "Dark Destroyer", except instead of using musical guidance, we used our bodies and voices.
This week we chose a science fair topic and are starting to get ready for the science fair. Some people have already started their experiments and some people are still figuring out their experiments.
Today, when we got together with our buddies, we wrote poetry with them, after we read some of our own poems to them. We tried to make our voices sound more enthusiastic than the recording of the poet Billy Collins that we heard.

Our question to wonder about is:
Do you enjoy writing poetry?