Wednesday and Thursday were scheduled as conference days where students spend an hour discussing school work with their parents in the classroom. Ours happened to be on Thursday, so Wednesday we slept in, took a walk around the neighborhood, pet the horses nearby, collected possible craft items from the ground, housed a play date, and took our french lessons.
In case you're wondering about this strange pink outfit, it came from Istanbul and is a little halter top with a skirt and hat. Very cute, but not ideal for such a cold climate here, so she has to layer. She's still into dressing up in princess type attire.
Thursday started bright and early with J's conference time where she showed off her portfolio, discussed the upcoming letter of the week (P), read classroom created stories to me, potato stamped a pattern, and counted money at her local restaurant (right upstairs in the loft of the classroom).
In case you're wondering about this strange pink outfit, it came from Istanbul and is a little halter top with a skirt and hat. Very cute, but not ideal for such a cold climate here, so she has to layer. She's still into dressing up in princess type attire.
Thursday started bright and early with J's conference time where she showed off her portfolio, discussed the upcoming letter of the week (P), read classroom created stories to me, potato stamped a pattern, and counted money at her local restaurant (right upstairs in the loft of the classroom).Only at an international school would you find the letter of the week as 'P' with the picture representations being Pisa's Leaning Tower and Portugal's flag. She did remember the name of the former, however, Portugal is one country we have not yet visited.
During R's conference he articulated information learned from his units of inquiry on senses, Kenya, and explorers, demonstrated math regrouping abilities with numbers in the hundreds, showed me a video presentation of his explorer (Zebulon Pike who is known for Pike's Peak), read and critiqued his short story based on word choice from the 6 Traits of writing, and followed a computer based map program.
Masai village in Kenya created by the class.
A video of music class where he's playing the xylophone. (I know - it's a bad picture, but I had 4 of our daughter, so I felt like I had to put up this one to keep him at 4 too even though the quality is horrible!)
After all of the academics, my kids needed to get their wiggles out. We headed to the ice rink with some other school families where the kids skated the afternoon away. Mesmerized by a young figure skater's leaps and turns, J is now asking for ice skating lessons after trying to mimic the moves.
During R's conference he articulated information learned from his units of inquiry on senses, Kenya, and explorers, demonstrated math regrouping abilities with numbers in the hundreds, showed me a video presentation of his explorer (Zebulon Pike who is known for Pike's Peak), read and critiqued his short story based on word choice from the 6 Traits of writing, and followed a computer based map program.
Masai village in Kenya created by the class.
A video of music class where he's playing the xylophone. (I know - it's a bad picture, but I had 4 of our daughter, so I felt like I had to put up this one to keep him at 4 too even though the quality is horrible!)
After all of the academics, my kids needed to get their wiggles out. We headed to the ice rink with some other school families where the kids skated the afternoon away. Mesmerized by a young figure skater's leaps and turns, J is now asking for ice skating lessons after trying to mimic the moves.
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