Week 31 - Decimal Art and Map-Making
/The week of April 25-28 was a bit of a short school week because we had our field trip to Fort Clatsop and then there was no school on Friday. In our studies of the Corps of Discovery, we used the iPads to explore interactive timelines of their journey across the Great Plains, through the Rockies, and over to the Pacific Ocean. We took another expedition across campus and practiced drawing our own maps in our journals. It was much more challenging than we expected, which made it so impressive that Clark was able to create such accurate maps on the Expedition. We enjoyed a fantastic field trip to Fort Clatsop where the Corps of Discovery set up their winter camp after reaching the Pacific. Then we wrote reflections about our experience in our journals the next day.
We finished our class read-aloud of The Birchbark House and began a new book called The Wizards of Once. The Sea Lions worked hard learning about decimals, so we got to create some fun pixel art on a hundred grid. Then we made decimals and fractions to represent the amount of each color that was included in our pixel art.
Pacific University held a recycled clothing swap and fashion show on Friday. A few of our students joined in on the fun!
