Today we hiked into the “Andes” along the ridge to Marcelle’s house. We are getting ready for our annual hike. It takes an adult about 25 minutes to hike that distance (not quite 2miles), but it is quite the adventure for a peace traveler!
Today we’ve been exploring beginning readers and BOB books. Many of the [...]
Archive for May, 2009
Week 32, Day 64: May 29, 2009
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Week 32, Day 63: May 26, 2009
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Singing and signing preparation continues for our Peace Travelers Sing Along. Finish up passport projects for Kenya.
Continuing with our travels in Peru we read The Llama’s Secret: A Peruvian Legend by Argentina Palacios.
Week 31, Day 62: May 22, 2009
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Today we prepared our songs for the “Peace Travelers Sing Along and Art Exhibit” We will be bringing our passports and taking families and friends on a tour of our world travels through our art projects and songs.
Base 10 continues with our grids and addition—moving down columns to count by 10s and across in counting [...]
Fundraiser Concert and Exibition freaturing
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“The Peace Travelers”
Photo Credit Kate O’Shea
from Mountain View Educational Collaborative
Sat May 3oth 6:00pm
“Donations Welcome”
at Elmer’s Store
396 Main Street
Ashfield, MA 01330
The concert will feature Multi Cultural Peace Oriented Songs, ASL, Poems, Puppets and Around-the-World Art Work
Peace Travelers is a twice-weekly home school program that highlights multicultural studies, geography, and social skill development through “travel” around the [...]
Week 31, Day 61: May 19, 2009
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Today we had a Base 10 treasure hunt. Friends roamed the grounds with a treasure map, looking for ziplock bags that contained small blocks that represented ones, tens, and hundreds. They had to circle the number they found, and draw a small picture of where they found it. Again, they worked in pairs and cooperatively. [...]
Week 30, Day 60: May 15, 2009
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Base 10 math continues. We are currently adding ten to any number on the number grid. We are using our placemats and manipulatives to understand the relationship of numbers that are ten units from each other. (The basic pattern principles are here. One number changes in the tens column; one number remains the same in [...]
Week 30, Day 59: May 12, 2009
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Base 10 math continues. Friends configured numbers with manipulatives in the 10 to 999 range. They worked in pairs taking turns adding to ones, tens, and hundreds. The more confusing numbers tend to be from 11-19 (because their names don’t follow the grammatical rules of other numbers. For example, 21, 22, 23, etc.,) and numbers [...]
Week 29, Day 58: May 8, 2009
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Today we began our study of base 10 numbers and discussed ones, tens Here we go round the Maypole High, Maypole High, Maypole High Here we go round the Maypole High, Hold Colored Ribbons High! Laddies and lassies go skipping by, skipping by, skipping by Laddies and lassies go skipping by, let colored ribbons [...]
Week 29, Day 57: May 5, 2009
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Today we began our Mother’s Day project outdoors. I involved friends in the planning for this activity, and we brainstormed about what we needed for supplies, drying out our watercolors, and clean up. Friends helped with set up and break down, and proved their skills in planning, set up, and breaking down after a project.
We [...]
Week 28, Day 56: May 1, 2009
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Happy May Day!
Today we began our day with a celebration of Sebastian’s birthday with fresh out-of-the-oven blueberry cobbler. (Thank you, Lauren!) We prepared our Maypole, by digging a hole and installing a 18” 1 and 3/4” pipe for our 10 foot Maypole. Friends chose ribbons for our dance, and we decorated the top of the [...]
