This week was a lot of fun! We watched a 30 minute film called "Binta and the Great Idea" to learn about social justice issues. Although it was in a different language, there were sub titles at the bottom so that we could understand what the characters were saying. As we watched the movie, we passed notes to our reading partners saying questions, comments and social justice issues that are involved in the film.
We are also starting a new read aloud book called "Crash" which is written by Jerry Spinelli. So far, we have read two chapters of it. It is about a boy named John Coogan. (Everybody calls him Crash). The first two chapters talked about a flashback of when he first met his new neighbor, Penn Webb.
On Thursday, we met with our kindergarten learning buddies. We shared a poem that we wrote and read it to them and they read us a poem that they wrote for us.
In Science, we are learning about force and motion. We also conducted experiments using spheres of different sizes, a ramp and a runway. We are talking about momentum, potential energy, and kinetic energy as well. We tested experiments with corks too. In this experiment, we made a small hill with a pencil under a ramp. Then, we placed the cork on the 30 centimeter mark. We tested what sphere and release point pushed the cork over the hill.
Today the Clayton High school band and Cheerleaders came to get up pepped up for Homecoming this weekend. All of the students at Glenridge sat on the blacktop and the band circled around us while the cheerleaders did their routines in the front. It was a lot of fun to hear the music and watch the cheerleaders dance. Hopefully Clayton can win this weekend!
We can't wait until next week.
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