Week 30 Highlights

Monday, April 18

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• read chapter 6 "F" of The Wise Enchanter: A Journey Through the Alphabet by Shelley Davidow
• notice words that start with F (the Fire on my birthday candles, the Forest in Enchanted Forest, the Fairies in the fairy game outside)
• discuss the Shepherd and read The Passover Lamb by Linda Elovitz Marshall




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• recall Passover and read A Sweet Meeting on Mimouna Night by Allison Ofanansky
• look at "Matzah Mania" recipes from PJ Library
• discuss Ramadan and read Lailah's Lunchbox: A Ramadan Story by Reem Faruqi
• note that it is both Passover and Ramadan right now




Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• recall the Hundred Years War and read Joan of Arc by Demi

Tuesday, April 19

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• whole school field trip to Rolling Oak Alpaca Ranch
• discuss the jobs that children have in taking care of their pets
• read A Ball for Daisy by Chris Raschka
• form drawing lesson 12 from Beginning with Form Drawing by Live Education!
• MLB - add illustration and sentence for either alpaca farm field trip or caring for your pet
• read The Work People Do: Farmer by Betsy Imershein




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• recall 10 Plagues by looking at illustration in Exodus by Brian Wildsmith
• MLB - rough draft of Moses




Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• recall the invention of the printing press and read From the Good Mountain: How Gutenberg Changed the World by James Rumford

Wednesday, April 20

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• do Farmer tasks: water milkweed seedlings, check on praying mantis egg case, refresh paths in vegetable garden by laying down sheets of brown paper saved from parcels and covering them with wood mulch
• notice that Farmer starts with F
• read chapter 7 "G" and chapter 8 "H" of The Wise Enchanter
• Circle Time - Opening Verse, begin to memorize "The Kind Mousie" by Natalie Joan from page 71 of A Child's Seasonal Treasury by Betty Jones, sing "Row Row Row Your Boat" and skip counts of 3, toss a soft knitted ball and chant the 3 times table (up to "36 is 12 times 3")
• add illustration and sentence for Farmer to MLB
• read Jason and the Bees by Brom Hoban
• add illustration and sentence for Beekeeper to MLB (choose between tracing honeycomb stencil, drawing a picture from the story, or making a sketch of the swarm trap currently up in our cypress tree)






Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• get caught up on MLB
• discuss why Harriet Tubman was nicknamed "Grandma Moses"
• read remainder of Exodus by Brian Wildsmith

Thursday, April 21

Grade 1 Archetypal Professions block
• read chapter 9 "I" and chapter 10 "J" of The Wise Enchanter
• Circle Time & Recitation
• look at the Tools of the Trade for healer
• take a walk outside to visit the stinging nettle patch and read Stinging Nettle information from Walking the World in Wonder: A Children's Herbal by Ellen Evert Hopman
• come inside and look up healing plants from the Tools of the Trade display which interested them (Raspberry, Red Clover, Rose, Pine)
• work in pollinator garden




Grade 3 Old Testament Stories block

• recall the Hebrews wandering in the desert of the Sinai Peninsula (which is between Egypt and Canaan) for 40 years

  one student read Night Lights: A Sukkot Story by Barbara Diamond Goldin

  one student read The Shadow of a Flying Bird by Mordicai Gerstein

  


Grade 7 Age of Exploration / Renaissance & Reformation block

• add the Hundred Years War and the Printing Press to MLB
• read chapter 59, "A Sailor Who Found a New World" from A Child's History of the World by V.M. Hillyer (1951)
• discuss the conclusion of this chapter and the time period in which the book was written, how Christopher Columbus is regarded now, and the holiday of Columbus Day
• whose land are we are standing on?

  share that many of the Zoom prof dev conferences I've attended lately have begun with the adults sharing whose land they are on; here is an example from a presenter at the recent SWI conference

  "I acknowledge the Ngunnawal people whose land I am standing on and pay my respect to Ngunnawal elders past, present, and emerging."

  Rose Lee stated that at her school the children begin each day with an acknowledgement,

  "Hello. This is Ngunnawal country. Today we are meeting on Ngunnawal country. We always respect elders. We always respect Ngunnawal country."

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