Last week students spent a lot of time learning about various countries around the world and challenges some people face when learning and accessing books within those countries. Students will continue to learn more about their countries in hopes of presenting their findings to their peers. In math, we continued our new unit on multiplication. Students are seeing multiplication as repeated addition. We are using skip counting and number lines to show our understanding of this mathematical operation. Students are building arrays to show multiplication in an area model.
On Tuesday afternoon, the Hartford Tree Board joined us at DBS to plant two new maple trees. These trees are a part of a grant I wrote last year in order to purchase new tree tapping and sugaring supplies so DBS could continue to make our own maple syrup each spring. I'm so grateful for this tradition to continue for years to come.
This year has felt like we have been working really hard all of the time. On Friday, we took a moment to reconnect with the forest and slow down our pace a little bit. It was exactly what everyone needed. We started our morning with a fire and time in our hammocks. Students spent time writing within their hammocks and writing poetry. In the afternoon, we spent time in the field and were gifted with sighting a special visitor, a blue heron! It was such a beautiful ending to our day.
Here are some pictures from the week:
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| Unclogging the bridge which was full of leaves |
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| Learning about our new trees |
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| Clearing the dirt of any extra rocks |
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| Each student added new soil to the trees |
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| Building quadrilaterals with geoboards |
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| Such a great way to spend our day! |
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| Can you see the Blue Heron? |
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| Blurry picture, but if you look carefully you can see the heron at the top of the hill. |
