Woodbrook Summer Explorers - 2018

Today, we made maps of towns that were responsible with their trash and had lots of ways to reuse and recycle materials. We worked both individually and in groups. Here are some reflections from working in groups: "Katie made the grass and she made the pond too" - Stefiny "The trash in the water and there's a net to catch the trash in the water and there's garbage cans and there's a tree. There's a clean island" - Ozair "I made this because we need a water thing and then I made a door and I made a little fish so he can get out and there's a thing for people to look at him" - London "I made a house and I made a book" - Zion "I made a bus right there on the road and I made a hotel and I made the recycling with a can recycling plastic bottles" - Zy'he "I made a park and a swing and a recycle and a basketball and a tree" - Mihanna "I made a dumpster truck...a recycling truck and a house...

Today our class had a lot of fun! We practiced being independent on computers, listened to stories, built with pattern blocks and practiced writing recipes. We also baked cookies for a friend's birthday! Here are some things we liked about today: "When we made cookies" - Emir "When we made cookies and worked on the computer. I did not have a partner" - Camryn "Making cookies" - Zion "Eating cookies" - Katy "Watching the movie and eating cookies" - Stefiny and Kialyah "Getting the cookies. Making pattern block recipes" - Zy'Darian "Recipes have numbers and words" - Dayana and Zy'Darian

Today Miss Mendez and Miss Wright asked "What was your favorite part of today?" Here is what we said... "The computers" - Emir "The computers. We played on them" - Fernanda "Drawing and making a fish. And going fishing when I was playing on the computer. We played Santa" - Zy'Darian "I liked fish. And I liked my family." - Mihanna "Computers and the fish draw time. I didn't really get to be the line leader today" - Kat "I really liked seeing what people made with pattern blocks during our math talk time. It was interesting to see...people made flowers and castles." Miss Mendez "My favorite part of today was how when the computer and then I played some games." - London "I like playing video games with my friend Zy'Darian" - Zy'he

Our Math Challenge today was to build a map of our classroom using a bird's eye view! Here's what we talked about after! “I put them in one line and it was a pattern. Then I stacked up that line. Then I made another line and stacked that up.” - Zy’Darian “We started out low and then made it bigger.” - London “Me and Denali made a table. We put blocks in my necklace. Then we used two big blocks to make the teacher tables.” - Camryn  “I used 81 cubes.” - Zy’Darian “We used 82 cubes.” - Zion and Katerina  “We used 19 cubes.” - Emir At the end of the day, Miss Mendez and Miss Wright asked "What did we do today?" and we said.... "We did math and we sang Baby Shark" - Kat "Help other people and be everybody's friend" - Zion "We read two stories...it was Bunny (Little White Rabbit) and Polar Bear, Polar Bear" - London "I liked to go outside and play. I liked to sing...I made a pet rock outside and...

Today was a good day! Even more friends were in our class! We played with our new friends and we want to have more fun. We learned how important it was for everyone to be kind to each other. Lots of people talked about how to be a good friend during our Closing Circle. We played outside, listened to a read aloud, looked at stories, working on reading and writing, played with cubes, and had Camp Invention. We colored our boat logs and we put something over them and we tested them to see if they went underwater but some of them got wet and then if not that's ok too. Twelve of our friends tested their boat logs. During lunch we learned about guide dogs and got to see a real guide dog named Spirit practicing his job! Here are some pictures from today!

Today we had lots of fun at our first day of Summer Camp at Woodbrook. We met lots of new friends, learned some new games, heard a story about a little girl who wanted to be an engineer, played outside, and won a contest to learn more about trash in our oceans. We are so excited for tomorrow! I wonder what we will learn on Tuesday.... Here are some things our friends said today: "It was fun and I made new friends" - Zion "I liked playing outside" - Katy "I made new friends" - Camryn