This past Tuesday we took a field trip to the Seattle Children’s Theatre to see “The Borrowers.” The play was excellent! Afterwards we ate our lunches and caught a beautiful rainbow over the fountain before heading back to Seabury.
This year our theme is Transitions and our first unit focuses on explorers and animals. In Social Studies this week we finished studying about John & Sebastian Cabot. John Cabot enjoyed fishing in shoals while he explored Newfoundland. We finished up our watercolor shoals with a variety of sea life. We then began researching Hernando Cortes, who traveled to what is now Mexico City. We discussed his choices and his relationship to the Aztecs living in Tenochtitlan at that time. We created sea chests and made a list of modern day items that we would want to bring with us on a voyage across the ocean. We came up with a long list of iphones, ipads and i-somethings that would certainly make a great advertisement for Apple. One of my favorite things we came up with was to be sure to bring our Seabury sweatshirts!
