Farnsworth House Blog

I enjoyed the first week of school at Big Dalton even though it is different than Little Dalton. During our first week of school we had math everyday and we reviewed our multiplication tables. Art is on Mondays and Wednesdays and we made black and white collages. I enjoyed that very much, I always have loved art. We have LASS every day, LASS stands for Language Arts Social Studies.  We either worked on our net books, (small computers)  which are very useful even though they’re small, or we made maps of our journeys from Little Dalton to Big Dalton. We have science every Monday, Tuesday, and Friday and we’re studying minerals. I enjoy that because I collect rocks and minerals and I like seeing other minerals that I don’t have in my collection. We have Law/LASS every Monday, and I the class because we didn’t get Law at Little Dalton.  I have learned a lot of ways that we are connected to the Law without even knowing it. Every Tuesday and Thursday we have Music and my group is trying out the violin right now. I have learned a lot about the violin. I never knew about pizzicato which means plucking the strings with our fingers. We have Writing Skills every Wednesday where we are learning better script. Lab is every day and if you don’t finish some of your work you can finish it during lab. If you have finished everything you can draw or read. We have PE/Dance every day. We also have playstreet which is when you go out onto the street and play with balls, jump ropes, footballs, and run around. When a car comes down the street a teacher yells, “Sidewalk!”, and everyone runs onto the sidewalk and squats. We also have Library every Friday, (the Big Dalton Library is much bigger than the Little Dalton Library). Finally we have Citizenship  every other Friday, and Assembly the alternate Fridays. During assembly everyone at Big Dalton gathers in the theater and sometimes people preform something on stage or give a speech. Also there are usually announcements. I can’t wait to find out more about Big Dalton!

-sd