Monday, September 27, 2010

Heart in the Heat

 I hope everyone had a nice weekend.

We enjoyed hearing about soccer games played in hot weather during meeting this morning in addition to all of the exciting and enriching activities you do with your children.

By now Strawberry Creekers are accustomed to the routines and procedures of the day, and today ran particularly smoothly for a hot, hot Monday.  We're continuing our work on making connections while reading.  During reader's workshop, Amy and I listened to students read while others recorded their connections on stickies.  We'll post these new, creative connections in the blog this week.

We also diagramed the heart to kick off our study on circulatory systems.  We watched two movies about the heart and its functionality paying particulary attention to the role of valves, veins and arteries within the entire system.  Below are two student diagrams that were sketched today.












For the rest of the heart diagrams please click here.

Have a good night!

Jed