The children learned a card trick and the secrets of using playing cards to create large structures. Here is a video of the Guinness Book of World Records card stacker, Bryan Berg:
https://youtu.be/ivgKaQanz5k
The students worked in groups to create movies starring the sock monkeys that they made. These videos can be seen in a separate posting.
The children learned about palindromes. These are words, groups of words and sentences that have the same letters forwards and backwards. For example, racecar and tacocat.
The class organized their portfolios to take home. It was fun to look back on samples of the work that each student did over the past school year. We even opened up our class "time capsule" and reflected on what has changed and what hasn't changed in the last 10 months.
The children took time to thank the people that helped them this year and each child wrote individual notes to put on "thank you posters", which were delivered by the students.
The students also created "birthday" cards and sang "Happy Birthday" to the children who have birthdays in the summer.
We had a Speed Stacking Contest on the last day! The children have been practising to get the fastest time possible for the various competition stacks and had a chance to show their skills.
Ms. Judy from Monkey Minds Mindfulness came to our class on Wednesday to teach the children a bit about how to breathe to help to quiet our minds. She also taught us some games to help calm down when our minds get too busy.
Finally, the students cleaned out the insides of their desks. They also cleaned the tops of their desks by using...shaving foam! It's a messy but fun way to clean up!
Books read aloud this week:
The Boy With Square Eyes by Juliet and Charles Snape
Palindromania! by Jon Agee
MOM and DAD are Palindromes by Mark Schulman
Millions, Billions, Trillions - Understanding Big Numbers by David A. Adler
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