Dear Families,
Sorry
for being a little behind the scenes lately. It's been a busy time.
Last Wednesday I went to Wolf Lake Fish Hatchery in Mattawan to pick up
the salmon eggs. They are in the tank. The kids have observed them and
we learned about the life cycle of salmon. Stop by outside the office if
you can and check them out. In a week or so they will begin hatch and
become alevins. We'll keep you posted.
Last Thursday and Friday
I went to the "Place-Based Education" conference. Educators from all
over the country, but mostly the Great Lakes region, gathered at this
biannual conference to share and develop strategies for this pedagogy.
To my surprise, Sylvia's mother, Laura Meisler was there, too. She is
the education coordinator for St. Joseph Hospital's The Farm. We will be
working together to plan a trip to The Farm for the class.
The
kids had another good time with Rick Hall, but he had an unexpected
situation on Friday so I called Kito McKenny to sub for Friday. This
Thursday and Friday I will be attending the Intel Math conference and
EMU, so I called Rick and Kito again.
Because I will not be in
class Thursday and Friday, we are postponing the I-Search presentations
to next week (because I don't want to miss them!!) A few I-Searches
will be rescheduled to Monday, November 27. So far we learned about
Pets, Greek Mythology and Ancient Egypt.
This week we selected
our Multicultural Fair topic of study. Through a process of
brainstorming and mutual decision making, the class chose United Kingdom
for our topic.
This Monday was our last day of PLTW, just in
time to put our energies into learning about the many cultures in the
United Kingdom!
I've also been working on report cards, which will come home next Tuesday.
Ta ta,
Bette
