Lauren in Washington DC

Hello Class!

I made it to Virginia! Our first day here, we visited Great Falls National Park.  This is the Potomac River that divides Virginia and Maryland.  It also goes through Washington DC.

We also visited one of the Japanese Immersion schools here:

This is my Dad's work:

This is me on the Metro train riding into DC:

This is the Washington Monument.  It's really tall when you stand right next to it!

 

This is the Reflecting Pool between the Washington Monument and the Lincoln Memorial:

This is Eleanor and me in front of the Lincoln Memorial:

Inside the Lincoln Memorial (the statue is bigger than you think):

Me with the White House in the background:

Here's the White House up close:

On Saturday, we visited the Smithsonian Air and Space Museum.  This is a NASA jet hanging from the ceiling.

This is the Capitol of the United States.  They are already setting up the stage for the presidential inauguration in January!

There is a farm near our apartment and these are some of the animals we saw.

Pigs can sometimes seem to be really ugly, but it turns out they can be super cute!

These pigs live in Hogwarts (ha, ha)!

 

  

Today we started school at our neighborhood school.  We walked and got to cross this river on the way to school!

I miss you a lot! If you want to be a pen pal, you can write me at:

Lauren Johnson

2323 Dulles Station Blvd #427

Herndon, VA 20171

See you soon!

Highlights of the week for Atticus

These are the fixed mindset and growth mindset ideas such as:

fixed                                           growth

                                        I'm a natural                                 I can get better

This is Kam, Ollie, Kai, and Lauren in Japanese class.

We are giving complements to Lauren before she leaves

these posters are for small group work. They are how to start, grow, and sustain a discussion.

These are the small groups.

A Video of discussion from Lion, Witch, etc. Group.  They were discussing what game is better Minecraft or Animal jam.  Minecraft won!!!!!

Bruno and Gracie hoping for a human treat.

Bruno and Gracie hoping for a treat.

These are our adventure in revision packets

and here is some more!!!

This is Bohdi, Amara, Tess, and Mia working on their packets.

Leo is sharing his poem.   (very funny)

This is Elsa sharing hers

The End!!1

Highlights of the week for Kam

We were finishing up our poems.  The chart on the whiteboard tells us how much we finished.

These are our small learning targets.  In our small group, we complimented each other's poems.

This is Tess and Ella.

We started a draft review of the corn maze field trip using our graphic organizer.

The Persuasive Review Dance...It shows what goes into a persuasive review.  The top has the introduction, under the introduction goes the context or summary, the middle part is the largest part and has the reasons and details.  Lastly, the bottom has the conclusion.

Interpretive Persuasive Review Dance...

We had a tech party.  The tech party was very very fun.  In the tech party, we got to get iPads and laptops and you can use them to do things that didn't have to be school work. 

These are our teddy bears we are going to send to Taiwan and Pakistan.  We made a video about our school at McDonald International so Taiwan and Pakistan will learn about our school.

Highlights of the week for Lauren

I had fun making the rules and I liked doing the small group assessments. 

I liked doing the video taping for the schools in Taiwan and Pakistan.

This is the Point of View team and their introduction footage. My group is bare bones and we video taped all around the school.

This is Bruno staring at Ms. Kathleen's lunch and hope for some of it.

This is me with the Teddy Bears. 

Highlights of the week for Tess

                             this is a bike in bruge.
                                       the bikes down below are from bruge to.

Many people ride bikes here instead of driving cars!  Here are some fun pictures of how people get around.- Maija (Tess' mom) from bruge.

                                               This is Bruno after he dug all of Gracies' bones out of hiding.
 

                                                   this is tess (me) doing a spelling test.
                                                                      yippee !!!!!!

                                          these are some examples of bare bones and add details poems.

                                                         this is our revision booklet.

                                             this and the ones down below are 4 sqaer posters.