The
students of Mr. Brown and Mr. Hill’s classes have started Shakespeare
and are close to their performance date. Mr. Brown’s class will be
performing on Tuesday, December 3rd, and Mr. Hill’s class will be performing on Thursday, December 5th.
We hope all the families and friends of the cast will be able to make
our evening shows, at 7 pm. Make sure to show up early, for the actors
are required to be at the stage by 6:15. Each class will also be
performing a matinee show for other students at Cascadia on
the same date as their evening show. Your student should have gotten a
list of what items of clothing they are expected to bring to school for
their costumes. Also, a PDF version has been sent to your email. Please
bring your costumes to school as soon as possible because we are
starting dress rehearsals soon. Thank you all so much for your support
and we will see you at the show!
Brown's Homeroom
This
year in homeroom, we are grateful to have Ms. Lee’s class as our buddy
class. The most recent visit from Ms. Lee’s class was, two weeks ago.
The students either collaborated or did separate paintings of pumpkins
with their buddies.
This
activity was inspired by the painting style of Yayoi Kusama. But the
colors were not just brown and yellow, a couple of examples are green,
black and red. For more information, ask your student.
Language arts
This past week, in language arts, we have been working on our stories. We have the choice of doing nanowrimo,
short stories, or graphic novels. We have been focusing on how to write
a good story, learning how to create an interesting character, and how
to create a conflict (so far). We have also learned Stop, Notice &
note, where we can better understand books that we are reading. Stop
notice & note is where we find different kinds of things that come
up in the books we read, such as: Memory moment, Aha moment, Again &
Again, Contrasts and contradictions, words of the wiser, and tough
questions. Using stop notice & note, we have analyzed multiple short
stories.
Science blog
By: Sylvie
Recently
in science, we have been working on how dissolving works. In the
beginning of the unit, we worked on learning how solid objects dissolve
in a liquid. Generally, the liquid was water when we were investigating.
We learned that sugar and citric acid dissolve in water in one of our
experiments. Pepper does dissolve a little, but not very much. We were
doing all of this to find out what ingredients would not leave sediment
in salad dressing for Mrs. Harold, the president of Good Foods
Incorporated.
After
writing a scientific explanation to Mrs. Harold, we moved on to what
happens when you mix a liquid with a liquid. We figured out so far that
liquids do not dissolve in other liquids, they just mix or separate.
We learned that oil and water do not mix, they just separate, while
vinegar and water mix together. This is some of what we have learned in
science in the past unit.
