Back in the Swing of Things

After starting out the month at Islandwood, it felt really wonderful to be back in the swing of things.

​Here is an overview of all the things going on in Turquesa:

• We finished up our historical period of the Roman empire with lessons on the rise of Christianity and Emperor Constantine of Rome. We also started talking about religions of the world and the role they play in history. This week, students chose a religion to do some basic research on. They learned about the history and development of the religion as well as the basic belief structure and holidays.
  
  
• Our hearts warmed with a special campfire-like glow this week. We felt the sweet sound of beautiful story leads dance into our ears this week during Informal Writing. We are moving students to go beyond "Once Upon A Time" to instead start a story off with sensations and descriptive words.
• We had a Science lesson on an introduction to the Biosphere
• In Grammar, 4th grade students had a lesson on common and proper nouns; ask them about the bill/Bill story! 5th Graders are working on compound predicates and compound direct objects.
• Geography was a fun and popular lesson this week that involved hands on creations of mini-islands to model and label land and water forms they've been studying. They used Sculpey to create mini-islands and have been creating a map key and outline on paper to accomodate the island. This was a fun way to apply concepts that students have been learning about this year.
• The 6th Years have decided to have daily meetings at 10 AM to work together on their Island Projects. They are currently working on their Nearest Neighbor reports and have been working on creating a ceramic model of their island. Many geography components will be emerging next week!
• We have finished our Lesson 3 test in Wordly Wise today. Next Thursday we will meet and correct Lesson 4 activities A-D.
• Ms. Nicole has been giving Geometry lessons on either Nomenclature of Polygons, Area of a Triangle and/or Equivalence with triangles.
• Scholastic packets went out today and the children had fun choosing which catalogs they wanted to bring home. Scholastic orders are due back 10/31 (Halloween!). 
• Picture day is October 30th, 2017 for Turquesa. 
• Just a friendly reminder that there are no costumes allowed at school on Halloween, but we fully encourage costumes at Harvest Fest!
• Harvest Fest is October 28th! This is one our favorite events of the year at MCH. It's always a ton of fun and there are SO many activities, games, and things to do. 

Keep an eye out on Bloomz for photos soon!

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