Week Ten Notes

Monday, Nov 7

Morning Work Time - individualized math MLBs (KW reading an analog clock, CR comparing and ordering fractions with the Cut-Out Labeled Fraction Circles, AH adding fractions with unlike denominators & simplifying answers to lowest terms, AG subtracting decimals with the Decimal Stamp Game, ZCS Subtraction Secrets)

Equivalent Fractions in Recipes Task Cards

Subtraction Secrets #10

Fable at Snack - "The Fox and the Grapes" from page 114 of The Waldorf Book of Poetry edited by David Kennedy, read "Aesop" entry from The Young Children's Encyclopedia, volume 1, pp.8-11 which includes "The Dog and His Reflection" and "The Fox and the Grapes"



after I read the poem version of "The Fox and the Grapes," Zac went running off to his bedroom and proudly came back with volume A of his encyclopedia to share that book's illustration of the fable

Read Aloud at Lunch - Peter Pan by J.M. Barrie, chapter 1, Peter Breaks Through (read or listen to this book for free at etc.usf.edu)

Nature Study - find and sketch Autumn leaves, set up a Track Trap with acorns, magnolia seed pods, birdseed, and a mini pumpkin (hoping to capture a squirrel print)

Board Games - dominoes, Clumsy Thief in the Candy Shop

Tuesday, Nov 8

Nature Study - check on results of Track Trap, reset with a tray and smoothed flour to better catch the animal tracks

Morning Work Time - individualized math MLBs (KW reading an analog clock, CR adding fractions with unlike denominators & simplifying answers to lowest terms, AH multiplying & dividing fractions, ZCS finding missing addends with the Mortensen material)

Baking with Fractions - Holiday Edition

Addition Adventures #4

Fable at Snack - tell the story of The North Wind and the Sun, discuss different possible morals, consider whether we will want to include the morals for our fables in the Class Play or leave them unspoken

Read Aloud at Lunch - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, chapter 3, "A Caucas-Race and a Long Tale"



Board Games - Pictionary

Wednesday, Nov 9

Morning Meeting - look at voter registration card and specimen ballot, review the Home Rule referendum for the City of Carbondale and look at some of the results of the election

Nature Study - sketch new Autumn leaves (ginkgo, Japanese maple)

Fable at Snack - "The Country Mouse and the City Mouse" from page 116 of The Waldorf Book of Poetry (retold by Richard S. Sharpe)

Morning Work Time: Plastic Utensils - individualized math MLBs
(KW & AZ counting coins, CR & AH fractions cont., AG decimals cont., KLL NOAA Data in the Classroom: Sea Level Rise module)

Supercharged Science sample lesson (Marine Biology: Sea Creatures Great and Small)

Circle Time: Pterodactyls - "Opening Verse," "The Squirrel" movement verse, "Five Little Leaves" song and finger play, "Fire, Fire" beanbag verse, skip counting by 5s up to 100 and back down to 0

Recitation: Pterodactyls - "The Mist and All" by Dixie Wilson

Afternoon Work Time: Pterodactyls - recall The Hundred-Year Barn by Patricia MacLachlan and read The Firehouse Light by Janet Nolan, do Gem Walk activity for Place Value (100 green glass gems lining the sidewalk with a small blue organza bag placed at each skip count of 10 and a red woven basket placed at the end of the line... make 10 sets of 10 gems and place them in the basket to show 100)



Science Club: Weather - design-your-own thermometer experiment with four temperatures of water, food coloring, eyedroppers, and coffee filters; Layers of the Earth / Layers of the Atmosphere activity (one tickmark = 100 km = 1 hour of driving)

Thursday, Nov 10

Morning Work Time: Plastic Utensils - individualized math MLBs
(KW counting coins and Minute 1, CH adding and subtracting fractions with common denominators, CR finding lowest common denominator, AH reducing fractions to simplest terms, AG decimals, KLL NOAA)

Minute 1

What Did the Ocean Say to the Seashore?, p.12

Why Did the Sword Swallower Swallow an Umbrella?, p.13

Did You Hear? Riddles, p.14

Circle Time & Recitation

Morning Work Time: Pterodactyls - reading The 500 Hats of Bartholomew Cubbins by Dr. Seuss, introduction to Montessori math with the Golden Bead Material, making numbers from the story with the Large Number Cards and GBM, writing numbers in colored pencil with the digits correctly identified (1s - green, 10s - blue, 100s - red)



Fable at Snack - "The Fox and the Stork" from page 118 of The Waldorf Book of Poetry (retold by Jean de la Fontaine)

Read Aloud at Lunch - Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll, chapter 4, "The Rabbit Sends in a Little Bill"

Foods of the World: North America - make Chia Fresca (Mexican Lemonade With Chia Seeds)

Art History: Mary Blair - read Walt Disney's Peter Pan illustrated with concept art by Mary Blair, discuss Elements of Art (Space, Contrast, Pattern, Form, Color, Texture) and do Art Analysis of some of Mary's concept art (Small World Concept, Alice Concept, Cinderella Concept), do Concept Art assignment with colored pencils

The photos to go with this week are here.

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