Year 4 - Session 7 - Week 2

Birds and More Birds

This week we welcomed a nest of baby birds to our patio. The eggs we had watched the parents busily prepare for hatched with four littles. We learned a lot about these chirping creatures this week. Some did not make it through the hot days but became food for neighborhood animals. This was a beautiful discussion about the circle of life. They placed pillows and beanbags outside under the nest in case the littles ones tried to fly a little too early. They found birdseed from a past quest to place outside for the mom and dad. And the birdbath was filled up each afternoon to offer a cool refresher for the working parents.

Vibrant-colored vision boards were developed throughout the week as they explore their passions more and more. Emails were sent to their passion field expert with questions they carefully and thoughtfully developed.

This session we are reading the book Holes for snack and storytime on Tuesdays and Thursdays. The heroes look forward to the down time where they relax and enjoy listening to Mrs. EB read.

 
 

Spark heroes had a beautiful art exhibit on Friday that parents, grandparents and heroes were invited to visit. This was a wonderful way to support the younger heroes and offer positive feedback and

Highlights

  • Making Father’s Day presents -Avery and Grayson

  • Spark’s exhibit-Halle

  • Athletics, Spark lunch collab, and 4 square-Sawyer

Successes

  • Getting 4% in Reflex-Sawyer

  • Getting 22.6% in Reflex-Grayson

  • Starting Frax-Avery

  • Getting 5% in Reflex-Bray

  • Gained 30% in Reflex-Lydia

  • Completing 27 activities in Frax-Paul


Quest

  • Challenges: Researching and Choosing Passions, Gathering Notes and Crafting an Email

  • Create a vision board

Communication

  • Challenges: Creative Writing - Practicing writing complete sentences and capitalization

  • `Grammar songs and sentence games

Athletics

  • Dog Catchers with the dodge balls-Paul

  • Winning in dodgeball-Sawyer

  • Getting Mr. Trevor out in dodgeball-Paul

  • Playing red-light green-light-Lydia

Major Lessons Learned

  • It takes a long time to write an email-Sawyer

  • You shouldn’t play with other people things because it is disrespectful-Finlee

  • It is fun to get the sillies out, but then you have to get serious when needed-Grayson

  • Sometime stuff starts out easy and then gets harder-Paul



 

Enjoy some pictures from this week. Have a wonderful weekend!

Erin-Beth Carter