There is no description, no image in any book that is capable of replacing the sight of real trees, and all of the life to be found around them in a real forest.
How often is the soul of man - especially in childhood - deprived because he is not allowed to come in contact with nature.
-quotes by Maria Montessori
Please dress for the weather. A snowstorm is predicted!
The rubric and guidelines for the final copy of the country research report will be discussed with the students on Monday, December 14. The students will write an introduction and a conclusion and proofread their own paper and one other paper in class. The final copy and all work related to the project is due on December 18, 9:00 a.m. See attachment for guidelines and next steps.
The students had a lesson on outlines and wrote the outlines for their country research essay using their fact sheets in class today. The fact sheets, outlines and a rough draft of the essay are due on Monday, December 14. Typed outlines and rough drafts will receive extra credit points. The final copy of the country research report will be due on Friday, December 18. All guidelines for the final copy will be discussed in class on Monday.
We have finished reading Three Cups of Tea by Greg Mortensen and the work folders have been collected for review. We will still be collecting pennies for the Pennies for Peace project to build schools in Pakistan and Afghanistan through the month of January, so please find and send your pennies to school. Mrs. Tichy has volunteered to create penny collectors with the students on December 18; collect water or soda bottles for this craft project.
Mrs. Catania made origami crane ornaments with the students this week. This created a huge interest in origami folding and led the students to the many origami books in the classroom and Ms. Arsenault to Pearl Art Store to purchase a plethora of origami paper. The students decided to read Sadako and the Thousand Cranes and we are all folding origami figures and creating a bulletin board of origami (paper folding) and kirigami (paper cutting) to share with the Clissold community. It is a tradition in Room 206 to try to fold a thousand cranes to send to Hiroshima, Japan for Peace Day.
