5th grade has turned out to be project after project for Ka'iulani. I think she enjoys the work (for sure the artistic presentation of her posters has been fun!) and it has been good for her to learn how to balance daily assignments with more long term projects. At any given time she has at least two projects coming up that she knows she needs to be thinking about. As she spoke with Dave's parents earlier today she was telling them about her project, and I thought they might like to see pictures of what she was working on :-)
This is her project due tomorrow. She read a novel,
Circle of Gold. The book was assigned to her, and the topic was a little heavy. But overall, once she got involved in the story, I think she liked it. She just kept mentioning how sad it was. The story revolves around this pin that the main character wants to buy for her mother but she doesn't have the money. Alyssa insisted that there needed to be a three dimensional aspect to her poster, so we used adhesive magnet strips to allow the special pin to actually come on and off the poster board. The envelopes each have a letter inside written from one of the characters to another, I loved hearing her ideas for this project.
This is her previous project that she turned in during early October. They did a Social Studies unit on the states in the South East, and they had to pick a topic to do a report on. She chose Gettysburg, and almost all the photos seen here on her board were taken during our trip in June.
Emma gets a lot of writing assignments this year, and she loves it! The yellow book in her left hand is a story that she was working on illustrating. The title says something like:
Kleiner Bruder, Grose Wirbel. Without looking up any of those words, I'm pretty sure it translates to
Little Brother, Big Problem. The larger book she is holding is a monthly reading log where the kids keep track of how much they read each day. There are mini book report assignments in the back of the book and so far this year they have been asked to complete three of them. Emma has done seven, she is so proud to turn it in each month.
Earlier this month some firemen came to teach fire safety to all the kindergarten classes. It's not super easy to see, but Rebekah is the one wearing a pink t-shirt and being held by a teacher in the back of the photo. She appears to be looking at something very interesting on the ground.
Rebekah has adopted this old Clancy's Pretzels box from Aldi's as a little desk. When I fix dinner each night she wants to sit there with a snack and do homework. She doesn't get any real homework, but she loves to pretend she has work to do while her big girls are busy with homework. She looks so cute sitting there coloring or practicing her writing.
This is her project due tomorrow. She read a novel, Circle of Gold. The book was assigned to her, and the topic was a little heavy. But overall, once she got involved in the story, I think she liked it. She just kept mentioning how sad it was. The story revolves around this pin that the main character wants to buy for her mother but she doesn't have the money. Alyssa insisted that there needed to be a three dimensional aspect to her poster, so we used adhesive magnet strips to allow the special pin to actually come on and off the poster board. The envelopes each have a letter inside written from one of the characters to another, I loved hearing her ideas for this project. 
This is her previous project that she turned in during early October. They did a Social Studies unit on the states in the South East, and they had to pick a topic to do a report on. She chose Gettysburg, and almost all the photos seen here on her board were taken during our trip in June.
Emma gets a lot of writing assignments this year, and she loves it! The yellow book in her left hand is a story that she was working on illustrating. The title says something like: Kleiner Bruder, Grose Wirbel. Without looking up any of those words, I'm pretty sure it translates to Little Brother, Big Problem. The larger book she is holding is a monthly reading log where the kids keep track of how much they read each day. There are mini book report assignments in the back of the book and so far this year they have been asked to complete three of them. Emma has done seven, she is so proud to turn it in each month.
Earlier this month some firemen came to teach fire safety to all the kindergarten classes. It's not super easy to see, but Rebekah is the one wearing a pink t-shirt and being held by a teacher in the back of the photo. She appears to be looking at something very interesting on the ground.
Rebekah has adopted this old Clancy's Pretzels box from Aldi's as a little desk. When I fix dinner each night she wants to sit there with a snack and do homework. She doesn't get any real homework, but she loves to pretend she has work to do while her big girls are busy with homework. She looks so cute sitting there coloring or practicing her writing.
1 comment:
Alyssa did a great job on her projects, and that's so neat that most of those photos were from your family trip! makes doing a report that much more interesting and real!
That's a great picture of Emma! she looks a lot like you in that particular photo.
So cute that Rebekah likes to do "homework" too. Both Ava and Carter request to do "homework" while Cristian is working on his. Ava even does her "reading time" and records her minutes in her journal. So cute :)
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