Friday, April 28, 2023

What's Happening in May

With only a few weeks left in the school year, it's time for some decisions. We have had several goal-setting meetings this week, as the children and I decide which unfinished projects to complete and which topics we want to focus on, and what -- if anything -- we want to shift to another school year.

Here is the plan for May:

Art History - finish up Dale Chihuly with one more art project and a field trip to the Missouri Botanical Garden (Thu, May 4)


Morning Math - do Puddle Questions


Handwork - as children finish up their final knitting and embroidery projects for this school year, they will be helping out by weaving on our tapestry loom (the current collaborative tapestry is The Nine Norse Worlds)


Norse Mythology - the Plastic Utensils voted to do a double block (2 months) on Norse Mythology, to take the time to finish their MLBs beautifully, and to put their requested PPI topics into the Specials schedule


Foods of the World (KW) - this has been a 2 year long PPI Project for KW, and she is finishing it in May by making recipes from the continent of Asia


International Phonetic Alphabet (AH, CR) - the Pterodactyls have finished booklet #1 of The hfw Project and will have their last spelling test on Monday; they will continue to do review and reinforcement by playing games for their sight words; the IPA Word of the Day (a fun morning routine) will shift to more difficult words that the older children can try to figure out


Native American Legends - the Pterodactyls are taking one more week for this block, and then will have a two week block on the Stories of the Saints


Read Aloud Story - we will finish Carry On Mr. Bowditch by Jean Lee Latham and read Abba Moses: Notorious Robber, Desert Father by Andrew Votipka as our last book of the year (this is one of my favorite Saint stories)


Canterbury Tales (KLL) - the oldest student had two ideas for a PPI project and because we spent a double block on The Canterbury Tales (2 months), there's not enough time left to do both of them; he is going to do Chinese Mythology in class and make a MLB; he is going to do Psychology as an independent research project at home and present two reports to classmates


Nature Study (AG) - we have bees in the swarm trap, chicken eggs in the incubator, and plenty of green growing things ready to go into the garden and yard... and AG is planning on doing Carnivorous Plants as his PPI project


Science Club - three more sessions of Mycology in Science Club, and our Fungi Fun Day on the last day of school!


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