2.8: January 26-29
Important dates…
1.30 Teacher Planning Day, No School
2.4 Portland Youth Philharmonic Orchestra Field Trip
Depart from Winterhaven at 9:00 a.m. via Tri-met
2.10 Japan on the Road visits our classroom 8:45-12:00
This week in…
Humanities
-Reading
Watson’s Go to Birmingham, 1963
Chapter 14: Every Bird and Bug in Birmingham Stops and Wonders
Chapter 15: The World-Famous Watson Pet Hospital
Movie: Watson’s Go to Birmingham
Martin Luther King Jr.
• Letter From Birmingham Jail
-Writing
Pechakucha: 20 in 20 (20 slides, 20 seconds per slide)
Prewriting phase- understanding “current reality”
Systems Habit: Successive approximation
-Science
Permaculture
• planning for the calendar year
• preparing for Spring garden beds with sustainable production for cafeteria during the months; April, May, and June.
Goals for Spring 2015
• sustainable production of greens, herbs and vegetables for the cafeteria
• increase spring and fall yields from fruit vines, trees, and bushes by examining plant needs such as sun light, soil pH, companion plants.
• create a seasonal food mandala for Winterhaven’s garden and learn how to provide food during winter months.
Systems Habit: Understanding the “big picture”
-Systems Thinking: student led activity The Day They Parachuted Cats On Borneo
Systems Archetype: Fixes that Backfire
Math
Fraction Concepts:
1. decimal place value
2. converting decimals to fractions and fractions to decimals
3. multiplying and dividing decimals
4. multiplying and dividing fractions
5. adding and subtracting fractions (borrowing and carrying over when necessary)
6. LCM’s or LCD (lowest common denominator)
にほんご
katakana practice reading and writing
アイウエオ
カキクケコ ガギグゲゴ
サシウセソ ザジズゼゾ
タチツテト ダヂヅデド
ナイヌネノ
ハヒフヘホ バビブベボ パピプペポ
マミムメモ
ヤユヨ
NEW
ラリルレロ
ワ
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Thursday’s Quiz
Katakana 2.4
| Hiragana | English/Katakana | Hiragana | English/Katakana |
| じゅーす | juice/ジューす | さっかー | soccer/サッカー |
| とまと | tomato/トマト | こっぷ | cup/コップ |
| ぱん | bread,pan/パン | ぴあの | piano/ピアノ |
| さふぁいあ | sapphire/サファイア | すぷーん | spoon/スポーン |
| よっと | yacht/ヨット | ろ | |
| ふぉーく | fork/フォーク | を | |
| あっぷるさいだー | apple cider/アッルサイダー | ら | |
| あいすくりーむ | ice cream/アイスクリーム | れ | |
| ちきん | chicken/チキン | る | |
| しゃつ | shirt/ シャツ | り |