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In Upper West, one of our class pets is the Madagascar hissing cockroaches. Like all animals, they reproduce. When Mr. Dave ordered them, he put a little note on the bottom of the paper that they should all be one gender. But they gave him one male and three females. So, of course, they reproduced....
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In upper west, for collaborative science, we have been working with stream tables, which is when you use models filled with earth materials. This week we studied a mountain model of Mt. Shasta to study topographic maps. We have been learning a lot of things. Also, in writers workshop, we started writing a literary essay,...
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This week in Upper West we started literature circles. Each of us chose the novel we wanted to read for the next 5 weeks. Then we determined how many pages to read each week. We chose a role to focus on, such as “Discussion Director,” “Character Captain,” and “Savvy Summarizer.” The book choices were Tales...
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Today is Wednesday, the twenty-first of October. Next week we will be having Camp Willson and parent conferences.  This month in Art we are studying Geometric shapes and Organic shapes. In P.E. we are practicing foot skills with soccer. Lastly, in music we are working on high and low sounds, fast and slow tempos, and...
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     This week we looked at the impact of flooding on our Science: Stream Tables. Our Spanish has been on a zoom call, but will be back face-to-face next week. We are split into two groups for Spanish.      We also have been practicing technology in the classroom.  Technology is when we practice...
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This week in the Upper West classroom we had a very interesting lesson. We went outside to the field and 2 guest speakers explained about how the Great Black Swamp was in our very field! Upper west and Upper East both split their classrooms into groups and we reenacted travelers coming here. We then headed...
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We had a busy week in upper west as we wrapped up the last week of September. The students have been having two math lessons per week, one on Mondays and a second on Wednesdays, with follow-up and independent work to do on the other days. Most of the review is over by now, which...
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This week we had some awesome things happening. Here are a few of them: Science. This week in science we did landforms. To do this we bulldozed (used a wooden angle) to flatten earth material (clay and sand) to make a model of a plateau. Then the fun part! We balanced a cup with a...
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We’ve had a busy week so far in Upper West. On Monday, Mr. Dave gave us a history lesson on finding the closest relatives of humans. After his presentation, we looked at the latest scientific evidence to see which of the apes we are most closely related to. He used charts to tell us about...
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     For science this week we learned about landforms. We went in three separate groups and all the groups  made models of our playground with some sand and cubes. We also drew maps of our landforms on paper.      For writing workshop (writing workshop is where we write.), we did personal narratives and...
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