Highlights from Week 5 in Room 2

Some highlights from week 2 are...

We got to meet Paul's sister Andrea! Andrea came to visit from Washington, D.C., and shared about her time as a nurse in India. Thanks for the great visit, Andrea!!

Two Stanford Trees sported their Stanford hoodies on the same day. I love it! Future Stanford students!!!

Ms. S taught us a super fun tune to remember the parts of a plant, and played it for us on the guitar! We got to sing along, act it out, and LEARN more about plants all the while! Thanks, Ms. S!! 

We grew our schema even more about penguins. We read March of the Penguins, and listened for facts.  Check out how much new learning we collected!

Scholars hard at work

One of my favorite thing about learning through thematic units is how rich our content, vocabulary, and student engagement is! Students are completely engrossed in their literacy workstations, and are producing such amazing work! 

One reason why Literacy Workstations have been such a fruitful time of learning is that we have begun each workstation session setting goals about our learning. Here are some journal entries from workshop scholars!

We learned more about some of our classmates this week during Share time in Morning Meeting! 

Joczan shared a picture of his dad, who we learned is a police officer. Stanford Trees were curious and interested in how Joczan's dad earned his badge.

Joel shared a special photo of him with his brother Jaime, who he cares a lot about!

Eduardo had a fantastic week of growing as a mathematician! He practiced becoming an accurate counter by double-checking, counting one to one, and adding two numbers together. Way to go, Eduardo! Keep up the hard work!

Penguin Dramas

This past Friday, Room 2 transformed into Antarctica when water froze over and ice bergs formed right in the middle of the room.  The Stanford Trees made their own penguins for dramatic play, and acted out caring for their fragile eggs, and making the long trek to the icy sea for krill, squid and fish to feed their young. 

 During the trek, the eggs hatched, and the dads took good care of the baby chicks covered in downy feathers. When the exhausted mothers finally got back, they fed their young and traded spots with the dads!