Creating Characters

Sketch of created character for Thursday's Lewis and Clark expedition at Tilden park

So far this has been such a busy week and it's already (well...Wednesday morning by the time I'm getting to it)...We completed the Geography Bee, and everyone really succeeded!  It's a new type of thing--to line up, have everyone watch you while trying to think of the right answer--but because students learned US geography (including rivers, landforms, etc..) everyone did really well at the beginning rounds.  The final round questions (world geography and culture) were really hard.  In the end everyone experienced what it was like and learned lots of geography in the process.

Example character sketch

Students decided to create "realistic historical" characters and then "become" them for our expedition.  This way, there can be more girls on the expedition (Sacagewea was the only one) in addition to...dogs and babies...(well, a few wanted to be babies, but we had to rule them out--50 pound babies would be too hard to carry).   Their character sketches are really creative!  Click here for a few examples. They also elected two leaders by way of sticky note ballot voting: Lily and Sam are the modern Lewis and Clark.  After school I'm heading to Tilden to put out the clues.

1.  do reading job homework and read for thirty minutes
2.  fourth math
     fifth math
3.  spelling

***remember to sign/return with child the permission slip to Thursday's field trip to Tilden Park