What a beautiful week of weather we just had! We took full advantage of the warm weather, sunshine and smaller class size to go out and walk around the school yard and community garden with Ms. Rowland's class. During our walk we stopped and took a few moments to work on sketching what we saw to the North, East, South, and West.
I Can Use Construct an Object Using a Variety of Materials
Students were challenged to build a representation of a groundhog popping out of the ground as an intro to our Building Things unit in science.
I Can Represent One Half
As part of our wrap up into our exploration of halves, students were asked to create a work of art using strips of paper that were cut into halves or quarters. This was a great chance to see who understood that fractions had to be equal pieces but could be represented in different ways (a square could be cut in half making either two rectangles or two triangles).
I Can Tell a Story with a Beginning, Middle, and End
This week we had a chance to work on our oral language skills by creating a story with the loose parts. Students were asked to listen to another group and to also share their own story. This allowed students to ask clarifying questions of the story tellers to help the storytellers ensure they didn't leave out important information. We also worked on drawing out the story with labels and many students have moved into writing the story with their own inventive spellings.
I Can Communicate Through Art
As a group, students were working on literally communicating through art. We have made a banner to share our message at our upcoming assembly (more details to come). Students used crayons and watercolors to create a watercolor resist of their letter.
Reminders:
Tuesday, February 14 -
Valentine's Day
- Students can choose to bring in cards to exchange with their classmates.
- Wear red and/or pink today!
