I was in 1-2nd grade today. They too have a jam-packed schedule with different classes every 30min or so. Whew! This class had finished some of their textbooks already, so we did a bunch of review things and educational games instead of traditional lessons.
Two extra fun things today: I got to be a mystery reader in kindergarten. I brought my class with me and read two books, On Account of the Gum and Sneaky Sheep. Both big hits. Mrs. E particularly enjoyed the first book and took a picture so she could find it later.
That afternoon for science we did STEM challenges with keva blocks. They got 20 blocks only. I let each student (there are six) pick a challenge for them to do: build an animal, build the tallest tower, build the shortest tower, build a maze, build a piece of furniture, and build the outline of a person (we split into two groups and they combined their blocks). They wanted me to pick a challenge, so I picked "write your name in blocks".
It was cool to see the differences in how they approached the challenges. Some of them used the blocks to make outlines of shapes, some set blocks on their sides, some set them on top of each other. All very creative.
Their classroom has a few mice that can be 'programmed' to move certain ways. The girls (I forgot to mention, this is a class entirely made of girls) asked to test their mazes with the mice. You press buttons on the mouse's back to say how many spaces forward, side to side, etc. you want it to go. Most of the time the mice made it straight just fine, but when it came time to turn, it was hard to judge the distance correctly and the mice broke most of the walls.
After school I picked up more t-posts at TSC for our fences and researched gate options for our goat fence. The posts fit in my little red car! While there, I peeked at chick feed (lots of organic options here) and chick prices. The breed we bought were $5.50 a piece! I'm very content with my $1 chicks.
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