Mindful Seeing, Art, Movement and Fun!
/The Sea Lions continued their study of the brain this week, learning about our sense of sight and how messages travel from our optic nerves to our cortex. Dr. Mari Fujimoto from Pacific’s College of Optometry took us through various activities and hands-on experiments that helped us think about the way that our sense of sight helps us function and learn. We talked about the way that mindful seeing (looking deeply at our work and our world) helps us to be more attentive to things going on around us.
We continue to work hard in our small math groups, focusing on the multiple ways of seeing numbers, exploring the commutative and associative properties of multiplication and addition. We are experimenting using open number lines, ratio tables, tiles arrays and area arrays to show our mathematical thinking.
Our Writing Interactive Notebooks are taking shape as we explore complete sentences, compound sentences, the structure of a paragraph (including topic sentences, key details, rockin’ beginnings and more). We’re using what we know to continue to edit our Personal Autobiographies this week.
Our week concluded with a Freakishly Fun Friday. We finished our 3/4 view self portraits in the style of Van Gogh, and they are magnificent. We put the final coat of glaze on our pencil cups and we can’t wait to see the finished product. And we’re learning learning a new song with rhythm sticks. Sarasponda is so much fun!
