Tuesday, December 6, 2016

Weekly Post 9-30-16

This week was a very magical and mythological week on Team Spencer.  We had a great debate on what is magic versus what is science.  Is magic real?  Is magic just unexplained science?  We also took a very normal everyday story that happened to Zoey and turned it into a larger than life epic adventure with beautiful winged cheetah rubies, guinea pigs that turn into dragons, and a peacock miner archeologist explorer girl! Crazy times!  We also looked at how some stories use metaphor to describe everyday personal journeys in very magical ways.  We began electives this week.  Our class is either in Karl's choir or Jason's creative writing elective.  My Forensics elective is off to an engaging start as many of the participants got their first crack at debating the pros and cons of an impromptu topic.

In math, we are beginning to use our understanding of measurement, inches, feet, and yards, to build drawers for our storage space. We are reviewing what the different lengths are and their notations, as well as how geometry and spatial reasoning factors into woodworking.

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