Hi Garden Families,
We had a busy week in the Grades and enjoyed meeting some new friends as several children came to try out our school. It was wonderful to watch our current students welcome our guests so effortlessly, willingly helping them navigate our days and readily including them in all our activities.
This week the Lower grades continued in The 13 Clocks, while working on penmanship, summary skills, parts of a story, spelling, sight words and grammar. They are also learning the Vimala alphabet, our chosen form of cursive. We continued working on math facts as well as revisiting reading an analog clock. The Upper grades heard the Norse version of the Creation, and have begun to hear the stories about the gods and goddesses. We had our first spelling evaluation, started lessons in grammar - verbs in the past, present, and future (like the Norns) and heard book reports from several of the students. This coming week they will continue to hear Norse myths, and we will have a spelling evaluation and continue to study grammar. We also worked on mental math using all four processes and also learned some of the number rules for division.
In Social Entrepreneurship, the students made labels for the bug spray, worked out a design for bat houses and made treasure soap. In (clay) modeling, we formed a basic human figure with one hand and then used both hands to add arms. Nature Exploration led us on a study of ants as well as gathering more twigs so we can make picture frames.
Warmly,
Ki Melissa and Ki Kathee
This week during Nature Study, the grades students used the wooden chorus frogs to learn about frogs and toads and create a frog pond chorus.
In the Creature Feature program, Ki Tess from The Amphibian Foundation shared a tree frog, a toad, two geckos, a snake, and a bearded dragon with us.
The houses from around the world that the grades students designed are now on display at Kennesaw Public Library. They will be there until April 8th and then rotate to another library.
