It's been a while, and so much has happened! Last week we went on our field trip to the Marie Hitchcock Puppet Theater, where we watched "The Year of the Dragon" and we also had the opportunity to visit the Air and Space Museum! Thank you to everyone who helped make our trip a safe one!
The 100 Day Party also happened last week. It was a great success! Here is a snap shot of some of the things we did....
The excitement of this day lives on during our Open Choice Time. Friends are still finding different ways to count to 100 as well as different ways to organize their work. We are constantly getting feedback from friends to make sure our work is clear to others.
Liam is working on counting to 100 by one.
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After checking our work, we agreed that 125 was the correct way to write the answer!
In other news, there has been a new topic of discussion in our class that many friends are torn about. We have been wondering about ghosts and whether or not they exist. If they do exist, how do ghosts happen? What are they made of? Where do they come from? What do they do?
There were many interesting theories and anecdotes shared by different friends about how they feel about ghosts.
Liam: Did you know ghosts are real?...
Avery: Yeah, they're dead humans.
Natalie: You could even walk through a ghost.
Brice: Ghosts are not real.... Because they're not around in San Diego.
David: If there were dead humans, how would dead humans come back alive?
Justice: Ghosts are not real. Ghosts are white and they have black eyes... If they were real, people would see [them]
Liam: No, they're invisible.
Avery: Ghosts are real because my great aunt told me a story that happened to her, and there's a magic word that makes ghosts appear in the dark...
Friends: What is it?
Avery: Kapoot.
Kyle: And ghosts live in graveyards. Ghosts are souls... they take them to graveyards and they just bury them and they turn into a zombie and the ghost will come because my cousin says ghosts are not real.
Isa: Once at night, I came downstairs in the kitchen and I turned the lights on, and when I turned off the lights, it turned back on.
Natalie: Maybe it was a ghost.
Skye: Last night with my dad, we were driving to my mom's house, and sometimes he turns the gas on and the light on with a switch, but then, sometimes, the light turns on by itself, and there were no doors that were opened.
Demetrius: Ghosts are real, because I went to my grandma's house, and I went in the forest, and a ghost whispered something in my ear.
Gaby: Not everybody agrees that ghosts exists; If you do think ghosts exist, how does a ghost happen?
Avery: You die and then sometimes if you come out of your gravestone, you're a ghost.
Kyle: No, because there are some ghosts that come out of the graveyard, they just go into people's houses and they just lock the door from people and they just take over their bodies.
Gaby: So you think ghosts go into houses and go into their bodies?
Kyle: Yeah and then they turn into zombies.
Gaby: Ghosts turn people into zombies?
Justice: No, they don't go into people's bodies. You can't survive from ghosts. They just kill you.
David: Ghosts can go through your bodies.
Matthew: Ghosts are mean.
David: Ghosts can go through doors because they're not actually real people.
Isa: You can go through ghosts. And ghosts can turn flat and go through doors... through the cracks.
Noah: How do ghosts come out of graveyards when they already died?
Maximus: They can go through the box.
Gaby: Through the coffin?
Maximus: Yeah.
David: If they could go through the door, they could go through everything.
Maximus: And they blend... you can't see them when it's light out, you can only see them when it's dark.
Maya: They come out because they could go through the metal signs that they leave for the people that die, and if they can't go through, they have to go around.
Kyle: Ghosts are like water.
Liam: ...Tv's and cameras can see ghosts.
Gaby: Do you mean the infared cameras?
Liam: Yeah because ghosts are made from electric, they eat electric to make them.
Gaby: They consume energy?
Liam: Yeah, they consume energy.
This was a very exciting conversation and we decided that we were going to journal about their ideas. Here is the brainstorm of some key words in relation to ghosts.
It is interesting looking through their journals and seeing how so many of our friends had the same idea of a ghosts' features. Though everyone worked independently, many friends work looked very similar...
Today we followed up with our discussion because many of us were still confused about ghosts and what they were and whether or not they were real. Everyone agreed that we needed to understand this concept more, so we decided to dissect what a ghost could be made of and how they compare and contrast from living people. We used a Venn diagram to organize our thoughts.
This discussion had given us a great opportunity to create and hear different theories. I am impressed at how the friends have been able to respect each others different points of views and ideas. No one was trying to convince other friends to believe their personal feelings, but mostly enjoying the chance to speak their voice! Some of us are planning to write stories and plays about our ideas! I look forward to seeing how they choose to portray their theories!!
Have a great night!
Love, Gaby
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