March 20, 2017

Last week students started new biography books for their Lit Circles and met with their groups to talk about knowledge they already have about their person. They have also been working on their Greek Gods and Goddesses Family Tree as well as Mediterranean maps in their cultural studies. They had a lesson about the Oracle of Delphi last week. This will lead into studies about famous people of Ancient Greece and Rome and studies of Spartan vs Athens.

Students have been doubling down on math lessons to prepare for our annual Math Day coming up on March 23rd. Math Day is always a wonderful celebration where students love to give parents lessons using Montessori Material.

Last Tuesday was Pi day and we had a parent come in and give a lesson about why Pi is so special. The students ate pizza to celebrate and had fun measure circumferences and diameters of various circular objects and figuring out how close they could get to 3.14.

A couple weeks ago we also held a fun eral for Morado's class guinea pig pet, Spike, who died at the age of 7. It was a beautiful and nice ceremony and students shared stories of their experience with Spike.

We also have two field trips next week that we could use a few more volunteer drivers. We are going to Seattle Children's Theatre to see SeedFolk and to Seattle Art Museum to see the Jacob Lawrence Exhibit. Check out Bloomz sign ups for more information. 

Ms. Nicole & Ms. Alyx