1. Students used vocabulary words in sentences.
Example: "A carpenter is a person who carps wood."
2. We had picture day.
One girl's flip-flop broke. (I'm ready to buy extra pairs of flip-flops for the whole school!) When it happened in class, I told her it wasn't a good time to deal with it, and then I promptly forgot about it. After I led the class outside, through the parking lot and nature center and grass to get our class picture taken, I saw her standing on the riser with one flip-flop. Oops.
About 10 minutes after we were back inside, one sweet boy raised his hand, and when I went to him, he calmly told me he got stung by a bee on the back while we were out there. Sure enough, there was a big, red bump!
3. One morning a centipede ran over my hand, which, in my opinion, is one of the worst things ever. But thankfully a few students had just arrived, and one brave girl cheerfully volunteered to kill it and remove it from my vicinity.
4. They took a Social Studies test on Ancient Greece. The most interesting answer for "Tell how Ancient Greece and modern life are different:"
“Greeks used horses for war and we use jeeps for war.”
5. Lastly, and most importantly, we took a field trip to Oregon Dairy yesterday.
In previous years we’ve left behind sweatshirts and jackets on field trips, but yesterday was a first for almost leaving behind socks.
Students wrote what they learned in their journals after we returned to school:
“They put a diaper on the bottom of the meat.”
“That they make the best chocolate milk.”
“Cows have tots.”
“I learned what the otter is. I learned that the teess are the things that hang from the otter.”
Lots of students learned that they use the cow's manure to make electricity. But "electricity" has not been a spelling word in their three years and two months of school so far, so they used some creative spelling: (And in all fairness, I did tell them to just spell words the best they could.)
Elextrisity
Elekvik
Elextrisode
Eletrisudy
Elkticeity
Lectricity
We also had the opportunity to complete the corn maze in small groups; I asked them to share with me if it was easy or hard, if they would like to do it again, and how they worked together as a team to figure out where to go.
“We went on a trail and saw where it took us.” (I’m pretty sure her mom would disagree, because I'm pretty sure her mom was actually reading the map.)
“I am never doing that again!”
“I would not like to do it again because it was hard and muddy.”
“The corn maze was hard because none of us knowed how to read maps.”
“We worked together by working together.”
“The corn maze was hard because we could not find our way out.”
“We worked together to figure out the maps but well, we took the wrong paths sometimes.” (I find it interesting that this was a member from my group, and he's the one who didn't want to bother with the map. "Let's just walk and see where it takes us.")
“I wanted to do it again and get more ice cream.”
All in all, a good week, I'd say. :)
