// Week of October 15: Curriculum Update//

This week, students learned about author’s purpose in historical writing. They also studied the “Building Blocks of Civilization,” and saw the evolution of human civilization as depicted on a familiar Montessori material from Early Childhood, the Pink Tower. Students read through chapters of our Readers’ Workshop book, The Westing Game, and looked more closely at events within the first few chapters while pinpointing new vocabulary in context. In Collaborative Math, students took turns enacting the role of “convincer” and “skeptic” as they folded sheets of paper and either defended that they had successfully created a given shape or challenged their partner. This is part of a larger, year-long conversation about communicating our ideas to one another in Math, and every subject area.