Highlights of the week from Theo, Mac, and Mia

Theo made a pipe cleaner Turtle.

 Spider cooking pasta with Theo.

 Spider cooking pasta with Theo

 Spider went to a pet store and met a tortoise.  There was also a parrot that spoke to us.

Theo reading about turtles with Spider.

 Spider enjoying sitting by a warm fire.

Spider met peanut, my sisters gerbil.

 Mazu tries an arepa (South American food)

 Mazu went to the farmers' market. She got yogurt and pie.

 Mazu went to the library. She had fun picking out books.

 This is Booker; my family was dog-sitting him

Mazu got to light the menorah during Hanukkah.

Mazu got to try latke!(A latke is a potato pancake commonly eaten as part of a Hanukkah celebration.) Mazu thought it was delicious and was glad to try a new food from a different culture.

Spider was  running around with us at recess.

I was sort of doing Typing and Spider was helping me focus.

We were watching videos from Georgia, Mexico, and New Jersey, USA.

Pinky with Sylvia at recess.

We finished the book Edward Tulane.  We analyzed the story by looking at the problem, summary, character, character change, lesson, setting, and connection to self.

We though of stories and we used a story mountain to help us plan the story.

We thought of a story and were doing the draft of the story.

We just got new books for our book clubs.  This whiteboard shows if we are reading our book club books and taking notes or if we are reading our "just right" books.

In this activity, we thought of things that will help us be less angry.

For the activity, we wrote down the ways we can calm ourselves down.

Music with Ms. Pollema - we were passing the beanbags around and we had to throw them back and forth to a steady beat and if we dropped the beanbag, we had to sit down.  If we were off the steady beat, we had to sit down.

We are cleaning up right now.

Highlights of the week for Evan and Vivi

Link to Introduction to McDonald International Video!!! 

Look at Spider!  He is eating the gingerbread house!

Spider is still eating the gingerbread house!

Look at the Christmas tree!

Spider hanging out with Evan and Liam.

Evan showing Spider the Christmas tree.

We're getting ready to decorate it.

This is me and Spider playing piano.

Here's me eating Pho.  Mazu had some too.  We're about to go to Elsa's concert.

Here's me and my cat.  I'm about to go to bed.

Mazu is trying to be friends with my cat.

Here's me and my dog Mondo.

I'm about to have my soccer practice.

Here's me eating.

Here's me eating breakfast.

Here's me and my sister about to leave to go to her musical concert.

Spider is helping us do our grammar.

Mazu is helping us with our grammar.

This is us at recess with Pinky and Spider.

This is Will choosing his genre bingo prize.

This is us making up our class story using the story mountain.

This is our chart that captured our thinking about lesson of the story,  connection to self.

This is people sharing their writing.

Scholars reading and writing compliments for each other's narrative essays about McDonald International.

This is us having our museum walk where we put compliments for other people's writing.