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font-family: Georgia, “Times New Roman”, serif;
max-width: 1000px;
margin: 0 auto;
color: #24352b;
}
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box-sizing: border-box;
}
.kigelia-header {
background: #f3efe3;
border: 1px solid #d7d0be;
border-radius: 22px;
padding: 30px;
margin-bottom: 24px;
text-align: center;
}
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margin: 0 0 8px;
font-size: 34px;
color: #294936;
}
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margin: 0;
color: #657064;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}
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display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(5, 1fr);
gap: 10px;
margin-bottom: 28px;
}
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display: block;
padding: 16px 8px;
background: #dce7d9;
border: 1px solid #aebea9;
border-radius: 14px;
text-align: center;
text-decoration: none !important;
color: #294936 !important;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-weight: 700;
}
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background: #cbdac7;
}
.kigelia-day-button span {
display: block;
font-size: 24px;
margin-top: 4px;
}
.kigelia-section {
scroll-margin-top: 30px;
margin-bottom: 28px;
border: 1px solid #d7d0be;
border-radius: 20px;
overflow: hidden;
background: #fbfaf6;
}
.kigelia-day-header {
background: #e7ede2;
padding: 20px 24px;
}
.kigelia-day-header h3 {
margin: 0;
color: #294936;
font-size: 26px;
}
.kigelia-day-header p {
margin: 5px 0 0;
color: #657064;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
}
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padding: 20px;
display: grid;
grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
gap: 14px;
}
.kigelia-card {
background: white;
border: 1px solid #e1ddd1;
border-radius: 14px;
padding: 17px;
}
.kigelia-card h4 {
margin: 0 0 7px;
color: #365940;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 17px;
}
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margin: 0;
line-height: 1.55;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
color: #4d574f;
}
.kigelia-wide {
grid-column: 1 / -1;
}
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display: block;
padding: 0 20px 18px;
text-align: right;
font-family: Arial, sans-serif;
font-size: 13px;
color: #5b735e !important;
text-decoration: none !important;
}
@media (max-width: 700px) {
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grid-template-columns: repeat(2, 1fr);
}
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grid-template-columns: 1fr;
}
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grid-column: auto;
}
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font-size: 28px;
}
}
🌿 Kigelia Village — Week 3
September 7–11, 2026 • Click a day to explore our learning
Monday, September 7
Explore • Create • Build
🌿 Forest Walk
We’ll begin the week with a forest scavenger hunt, looking closely for patterns, textures, shapes, colors, and surprises in nature.
🎙️ ASE
Students will be introduced to our podcast unit and the novel connected to our upcoming work.
🎭 Social Studies
We’ll continue creating our masks, read The Mask and the Mountain’s Secret, and write about the symbolism behind our designs.
✍️ Literacy
We’ll begin cursive writing and continue reading, discussing, and responding in our book clubs.
🧊 Math
We’ll play a volume Kahoot, begin exploring composite rectangular prisms, and build our own figures with blocks to visualize cubic units.
Tuesday, September 8
Observe • Read • Build • Create
🍂 Forest Walk
We’ll visit our tree friends and create leaf rubbings while noticing shape, texture, veins, and patterns.
📖 ASE
We’ll begin reading Wonder and start discussing our upcoming podcast unit.
🧱 Math
Students will continue exploring composite rectangular prisms through IXL games and hands-on building.
✏️ Literacy
We’ll continue developing our protagonists, begin writing our stories, and continue with book clubs.
Wednesday, September 9
Sense • Investigate • Grow
👂 Forest Sensory Walk
We’ll slow down and experience the forest through sound, smell, touch, movement, temperature, and close observation.
🪴 Science
Students will conduct soil experiments and investigate how soil, water, light, and nutrients influence plant growth.
Thursday, September 10
Measure • Analyze • Create • Connect
🌲 Forest Walk
We’ll bring math outdoors by estimating cubic units and thinking about the volume of objects in our environment.
🎙️ ASE
We’ll continue character work and begin thinking about the different roles involved in creating a podcast.
🎯 Math
We’ll continue finding the volume of composite figures with Volume Bingo, problem solving, and hands-on building.
📝 Literacy
Students will continue developing their creative writing while also reading and discussing in book clubs.
🍄 Science
We’ll investigate decomposers and explore how matter flows through ecosystems and returns nutrients to the soil.
Friday, September 11
Reflect • Prepare • Review • Launch
Forest Walk
We’ll walk out toward the tea fields and spend time observing the landscape together.
ASE
Students will prepare to record by drafting podcast scripts, organizing ideas, and preparing for their roles.
Literacy
Book clubs continue alongside a discussion of common and proper nouns and a review of the major parts of speech.
Project Block
We’ll launch a new community creation project and begin thinking about what makes a community work.
Math
Students will find the volume of combined prismatic figures by breaking complex shapes into smaller rectangular prisms.