Tales Of A 4-5 Something

Two weeks ago we found out our K-1 buddies! We do a lot of stuff with our buddies. We go to Pachanga together, we read to our buddies, and maybe even go on a field trip with them. On the first day we played a game called Shoe Stew. It`s a game where everybody takes off one shoe and throws it into the middle and creates a “shoe stew.” Someone starts by going into the middle and picks a shoe and tries to find the owner of the shoe.  After that we read to our buddies for about a half an hour. On normal days we usually just read. That is what we do with our buddies and we think we will have lots of fun with out buddies for the rest of the year. Tobias and Seth 

On October 5, 2015 Lou came to 4-5 to explain about primitive skills in the wilderness. He also took us to the Fore River Campus to demonstrate fire making, atlatl, and useful plants! Before he showed us the demo fire we pulled the string fibers apart for him to demonstrate with..At the FRC we played quiet games and learned the fox walk. (It is where you feel the ground before putting your feet down.) One of the games was “Oh Deer.” Each person had a leaf and put it near the person in the pickle jar and got back to their spot in the circle. Charlie D. and Cole

Today on October 7, 2015 the 4-5 went to Tortilleria Pachanga on a field trip for our local food study. Nancy’s friend Lynne Rowe is the owner of the business. One of the things we did was wash the corn after it had soaked with limestone powder, to get the husk off. After the corn was washed we ground the wet soaked and cooked corn. We pressed the dough called masa into balls and pressed it with a tortilla press into tortilla shape. Then we cooked it on a griddle. We put salsa and cheese on it and ate it. We got to make and eat our own tortillas and they were soft and delicious. Lynne uses dried dent field corn for her tortillas. She only gets corn from Maine and Vermont and she is the only tortilla factory in Maine. She sells her tortillas to local stores and farmer’s markets like Rosemont. We learned that there are green, blue, yellow, white and red corn. Corn has been domesticated since 10,000 BC. It was a great trip! by Nancy’s homestation On October 7th, we traveled to the To...

️In the beginning of the year we always do community games in P.E. The first game that we did was the river challenge. The river challenge is where you place down 13 carpet squares on the gym and try to get across with a group of 14 people without stepping on the ground. Another game that we did was the countdown challenge. In the countdown challenge you have to countdown from the number of people that you have to 1, you can not have a predetermined pattern. We did one more challenge that is called toxic waste. In that game ropes are attached to bucket with small balls inside that you have to pour into a crate with only the ropes. It is harder than it seems. by Elijah and Alden

Today we went to the Farmer’s Market.First we walked to the Farmer’s market from Waynflete and we did a scavenger hunt .The scavenger hunt had interviews, drawings and questions. Then we got apples and then we had to walk back to school . On the way back to the school we walked past the Portland Art Museum and Riechie School and the Cross Insurance Arena. It was a fun thing to spend 2 hours on this Wednesday. by Liam and Ty

On September 3rd 2015, 4-5 did an art project with Riki. We painted different lines on a canvas without talking while music was playing. We put Nancy’s ipad on the  projector. Everyone made a time-lapse of their painting then we put all of them together. We painted for 35 to 40 minutes. It was really fun and the time lapse was really cool!! by Morgan and Rosie

We had convocation this Thursday September 17, 2015. There was music, readings, and a gong and an interlude. Convocation  was about 30 minutes, it started with students arriving for the event. When we came there was music. Then Geoff Wagg welcomed us to the event and said some words about the school and then some students read some comments written by students about the topic of perseverance. Then we had an interlude with music and then there was a gong where the oldest student held the gong and the youngest student hits the gong 3 times that represent the 3 divisions of the school. Then Geoff Wagg said some more words, then we left with music. It was a good way to spend  30 minutes of the day. by Ty and Liam