Pacific Northern Academy started the week off venturing out into the wilds of Alaska! No PNA school year would be complete without the annual beginning of the year Fall Outing! Students were broken up into groups mixed by grade to mingle with new friends and then treated to several hours of fun, food and games!In the video below, PNA’s Lee Saunders starts the school off with our usual group game!
Can you spot your child?
But That Wasn’t the Only Outing…
This week, after several classes spent generating story ideas, Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade practiced a technique called Flash Drafting — the writing of super quick, fully contained story drafts.
The idea is to flex the storytelling muscles of the brain without the inhibitions imposed by second guessing yoursel and slowing the creative flow down. The faster you get the ideas out, the more original and exciting they will be. (Or so the Lucy Calkins’ theory goes).
In the photos below, Language Arts students sit outside in the sunshine for maximum inspiration…
And, the Third Graders also focused on writing ‘still lifes’, creating prose portraits of the people around them.
In this video, Third Grader Carson reads his to the class… can you guess who he is describing?
And, The Winning Napkins Are…
An Afternoon At The Theater…
And, finally, Third, Fourth and Fifth Grade ended the week with a show, Ramona Quimby, at Alaska Pacific University, starring a fellow PNA student.
Can you spot the PNA star in this picture?
And, Just For Fun…
