Student Guest Blog, Week 1
Hello, Philomath community! Today we have something a little different in store for you: as part of our ELA class’ examination of nonfiction and journalistic writing, students have been writing and editing blog posts about what’s going on in our virtual classroom. Each week until the end of the third quarter, a different student author will be reporting on what’s new for Philomath students.
Without any further ado, here’s our first guest blog!
Philomath Sum
Hello Philomath family, this is Jake, one of our students that is separated in 4th grade and 6th grade. I am a 4th grader and I am here to tell you what we are doing here in Philomath Microschool.
First off the schedule we have Math taught by Teacher Erin Smith or Ms. Smith. For 4th grade we are working on area and perimeter though it is a review because I learned it in 3rd grade where Ms. Smith was also my teacher, however not in Philomath Microschool.
Now let's move into Social Studies: I will not be going over Science in this post. Maybe in the future I will because we are not doing science at the time I’m writing this and the time that it should be posted. The reason we are not doing science is because we are on a 3 week rotation for Social studies and Science, Science is also taught by Ms. Smith. First off Social Studies is taught by Sylvie Althoff or Ms. Althoff. We all work together (4th Grade and 6th). We are working on a sad topic but I think it's important to learn it. We are learning about Us history, slavery(Mostly US slavery) and west africa. The way we are now starting Social Studies classes as of 2/4/2023 is where Ms. Althoff reads a short picture book about west african history.
“I think what we're studying in Social Studies is pretty heavy stuff, but it's very important history to learn, and all of our students are showing a lot of compassion and critical thinking during our discussions.” Said by Ms. Althoff
Now in ELA (English Language Arts) also taught by Ms. Althoff. We start off the day by doing Daily Oral language where we have a sentence or two and we have errors to correct some days it’s graded and at max you can get a whole 5 extra points towards your grade! And then we’ve been working on a february story contest, every month we have a different story contest where everyone writes an entry and the winner after the vote gets a prize.
“I am really interested in the family interview project we are doing. I want to get to the interview part now but I understand we need preparation.” a quote said by Jake.
And that's what we are doing in all our classes and I hope to write for you again philomath family see ya!
