{"id":2396,"date":"2018-05-24T15:23:34","date_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:23:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/?p=2396"},"modified":"2018-05-24T15:23:34","modified_gmt":"2018-05-24T19:23:34","slug":"thursday-may-24-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/2018\/05\/24\/thursday-may-24-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"Thursday, May 24, 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, we had a great trip yesterday!!\u00a0 The weather cooperated and the students were quite engaged.\u00a0 They reported facts and discoveries back to me and just beamed with excitement.\u00a0 Gotta love that kind of learning.\u00a0 Here is a glimpse into my class&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>All week I have been showing them pictures of the houses, some of the people that lived there (Henry Ford, Noah Webster, Mr. Firestone, Daggat Family, etc) and the farmers working in the farm fields.\u00a0 They noticed how the workers wore long sleeves and hats, even discussed the color of the clothing (why white sleeves, rather than dark colors).\u00a0 They noticed that the farmers were holding\/steering a plow through the thick soil and how difficult it was for the farmer to till the soil.\u00a0 After a few minutes, one of my darlings said, &#8220;I wish we could all go and help them because that&#8217;s such hard work in the hot sun.&#8221;\u00a0 I have such compassionate and caring souls in here.\u00a0 Isn&#8217;t that beautiful?\u00a0 Ahhh\u00a0 lucky me!<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This week I read\u00a0<strong>A House For Hermit Crab<\/strong> by Eric Carle<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/05\/crab.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-2397\" src=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/05\/crab-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/05\/crab-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/398\/2018\/05\/crab.jpg 480w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>If you haven&#8217;t read it, read it.\u00a0 \u00a0Today we made our own CRAB shells and decorated them with paint, a sea anemone, and coral.\u00a0 We had a great time creating our shells.\u00a0 Warning:some paint might still be wet!<\/p>\n<p>Have a great weekend.\u00a0 Maybe I&#8217;ll see you at the parade!<\/p>\n<p>Be safe.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Mrs. Smith<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First of all, we had a great trip yesterday!!\u00a0 The weather cooperated and the students were quite engaged.\u00a0 They reported facts and discoveries back to me and just beamed with excitement.\u00a0 Gotta love that kind of learning.\u00a0 Here is a glimpse into my class&#8230; All week I have been showing them pictures of the houses, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":497,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2396","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/497"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2396"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2396\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2396"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2396"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/smiths\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2396"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}