Snow

Today you could tell the students were excited about the first measurable snowfall.  I know our kids were so excited this morning that both put on their snow boots before they went to Nana's house.  I don't think the boots were needed but still they crunched around in the snow when we got home tonight.  

In class we kept talking about the Paleo-Indians and sharing Native American stories.  The story we shared today came from the book The Earth Under Sky Bear's Feet.  It was a poem that explained one belief about how the stars were put into the sky.

When we were done reading the poem the class compared the poem to the book we read How the Stars Fell into the Sky.

The two stories both tell of how the stars were put into the sky but the stories are very different.  The class created a Venn Diagram to show the similarities and the differences between the two versions. 

We also kept talking about the first Native American tribe in Ohio the Clovis Paleo-Indians.  We have learned a lot about this first tribe.  We have talked about why they are called the Clovis Paleo-Indians, how they gathered and hunted food, what they used for shelter, and much more.  In the class today the groups shared with each other what they had learned by reading a section of text about the Paleo-Indians.  

Each group focused on sharing three important words to remember with the tribe, two facts about the tribe, and finally the thing they found most interesting.  I was thoroughly impressed with the words that the groups picked.  Each group was able to focus on three words that perfectly described the section that we read.  

The class was still excited to look at some new cartoons.  We looked at four new cartoons today that dealt with new technology.  I think our favorite was a cartoon depicting a family vacation.  

We talked about what we saw in the cartoon:  

• a car
• a sign (scenic route)
• the mountains
• the trees
• child texting
• child watching videos
• mom checking emails and reading on Kindle
• dad checking in at the office

After we talked about what we saw, the groups talked about what they though the claim was of the cartoon.  We all seemed to come up with different answers, but most of our answers centered around the idea that we need to put technology down every once in awhile or we might miss other things.  

Hope you are all having a great week.