Already a month has passed by from the first day of school. Time flies by so quickly you don’t even know what you got done. Here is the recap of another great week!
In the beginning of the week, we talked about current events such as issues dealing with Syria, Afghanistan etc. We talked about issues in the Middle East, what connections it had with the world. This was then a good lead into our geography part of the week. We studied various terms like isthmus, peninsula, archipelago, gulf and so on. After our geography-illustrated dictionary with definitions and images, we took a quick test just to see how much we understood with geography.
Using all of our geography knowledge, we started a project called Ravali. Ravali is a made up island in the pacific ocean that is 22 km wide at it’s widest, has a lighthouse on the west, airfield on the east etc. There was a list of important locations of different buildings on the island. Using the terms we learned earlier and our drawing abilities, we tried our best to visualize and draw this fictional island.
In our language arts section, we continued with our tradition of one process paper a week, and we really got into the routine of first draft, second draft and final draft. We also read a short story called “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson. We learned how to identify irony, setting, character, tone, theme, vocabulary etc. From The Lottery, we selected another set of vocabulary words to study.
We finished the week off with a nice talk about the LDI trip next week! We already chose all our tent mates, dorm mates and gathered our supplies for a perfect trip. We talked about rules and regulations, expectations with behavior, safety, the itinerary etc.
We look forward to a wonderful bonding time at LDI and another great week ahead of us!
I think you and Sunny both did a great job describing what we had done that week.
ReplyDelete