Our Week In Review

Last week was a week of review and testing on unit 1 . I decided to make tests for Egypt and the desert using classmarker.com . No testing is "required" but I felt the review was for their benefit after covering a lot of info. & the testing was for my benefit to see how much they were retaining & how I can improve my teaching to meet their learning styles. These will also go in their portfolios since there is little paperwork and mostly hands on projects for science and history.
We also reviewed geography and map skills. The kids individually indentified certain locations on the globe and filled in a blank map of Egypt using a word bank at the bottom of the map. These will also go in their portfolios.

We used board games to review Egypt/Desert
& BINGO for desert vocab.

For the final day of Egypt we had our version of a passover meal to celebrate God leading the Israelites out of Egypt. We had matzah ball soup , potato krugel, roasted turkey and grape juice in our "fancy glasses".

These are 2 more fun projects the kids made for nature enrichment using certain knots they have been learning to tie ;

Carson's spear

Zoe's loofah

And last but not least, we took our last fieldtrip of the unit to the Cleveland Botanical Garden. This is a picture of the kiddos in the the Madagascar Desert Ecosystem.


Tomorrow we move onto Greece :)