Three Way Conferences, Enviroschool Arguments and more!

This week -

We got a day off school! (Queens Birthday.)

Our Three Way Conferences began. These involve the student as well as the parent and teacher. Theresa helped us prepare for it by getting us to write down our goals and our accomplishments.

Our sculptures (which you may remember from last week) are now completely dried and ready for painting.

We have Current Events from nearly every continent and have almost reached our goal. Soon we will be tested on our geographical knowledge (locating the places that were reported on).

Nearly everyone has finished writing their arguments about Enviroschools and many are already publishing them.

For our Inquiry this term our Big Question is, 'How has the river Nile been a river of life over time?' We have come up with our Question Categories, have noted our preference of category to research and Theresa has put us into our research groups. (By Theresa.) We are now ready to write our Action Questions in our groups.

We are starting our Art topic for the term, starting with learning to draw the human body. On Friday Theresa got Amira's big sister to come in and draw with us (she is an illustrator). From there we will design a figure in a dance pose and eventually turn this into a 3-D art piece.

On Thursday, we saw a performance in the hall called Ready Steady, Go! which was very funny.

Theresa's French friend Cederic (who helped out with the cross country) made a brief guest appearance on Friday before lunch and we got to sing him happy birthday as he sat in the 'hot seat.'

Reminders:
Interzone is happening on Tuesday next week. Jackson, Asia and Anna from our class are going.

Make sure you get your argument published.