We started the week with a field trip to Reed College to release our salmon fry into Johnson Creek. Back in October our Reed students gave us about 100 salmon eggs. The class has thoroughly enjoyed watching them hatch, mature into alevin, and develop into fry. The fry now are capable of forraging for their own food. This concludes our lessons with this group of Reedies. We have had wonderful hands-on science activities provided by them this fall, and our students have learned a great deal. I especially appreciate the enthusiasm for science that they always bring to each experience they present. Thank you very much for going on the field trip with us Jay, Don, Tim, Alice and Mike.
Our Oregon Cities Project is well underway and students this week are taking the notes they’ve made on their city or town and turning them into well-edited paragraphs. These individual topic paragraphs are due on Monday, Dec. 15.
In math we are taking a” time-out” to study and strengthen each student’s skills in the basic math facts. Problem solving is an important part of any math program, and I found that most of my students were struggling in basic addition and subtraction skills, which kept them from doing more difficult problems. Hopefully, this review will benefit each one and boost their mathematical confidence, as well. For those students who are strong in their basic skills already, they are enjoying applying these skills to all kinds of real-life problems, and solving for the answers.

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