The children are getting excited to share what they have been working on.  Just a reminder that we will be meeting in our classroom at 5:30.  We will then travel with Ms. Sam’s class.

There will be copies of our schedule available in our classroom Thursday night.

Our color for the night is pink/red, so if your 2nd grader has a red or pink shirt, they are welcome to wear it Thursday night.  If your 2nd grader doesn’t have one that they can wear, don’t worry about it.  It was a last minute decision.  The thought was that it would help our groups stay together, and find our destinations together.

We look forward to sharing some of the students’ classwork, as well as their Artist in Residence experiences with you!

Just a reminder that we are looking forward to sharing our Artist in Residence experience with all of you this Thursday!

See our schedule below!

 

Ms. Sam’s and Mrs. Prive’s classes

Welcome

to the READINESS, FIRST and SECOND grade

Open House and Artist in Residence Celebration

May 18

Starting at 5:30

There is a lot to see and do with your children. In order for you to see everything and enjoy all the work that has gone into the celebration, we have put together a schedule of events. It is important that you follow the schedule and be mindful of the times. We have four events that are happening: music on the stage, dancing outside on the basketball court, viewing the work on the trail behind the swing set for grade 2, viewing the work in the Fairy Village area for Readiness and grade 1, and meeting the artist, Cynthia Robinson – talking about the process of the residency, in the gym.

5:30-5:45 Classrooms are open to view student work

5:50-6:00 Outside

(Ms. Sam’s class in the Fairy Village area, Mrs. Prive’s class on the trail behind the swings)

6:05-6:15 Dance (outside basketball court)

6:20-6:30 Music (on the stage)

6:35-6:45 Meeting artist (gym)

This week in Wonders is an assessment week.  We will be spending the week researching our biomes, and taking a Unit 5 Wonders assessment.  Therefore, there will be no new spelling words this week.  We have been so super busy, I figured the children deserved a break.  I am really proud of all of the work that the children have put in.  The unit assessment is fairly lengthy, therefore, we spread it out over the course of the week, completing a small piece each day.  The children are excited to share some of their hard work with you this Thursday!

 

Today, the children had their last session with our Artist in Residence.  Their last session included an opportunity for the children to make a connection to our “One Book, One Year” theme.  We have connected many things this year, with a red thread, which was a big part of the Grace Lin book we read as a school.  The children were given a white rock with a red line running through it, that they placed somewhere near their animal/insect habitat.  The children also placed red rocks that first graders painted, along the path, to help guide visitors along the path.  This was their last chance to finish up their animal/insect habitats, as well.  The kids are excited to share their experiences and hard work, with you!

We have been working on a biome research project.  The children were given an overview of six different biomes.  They then chose which biomes they were most interested in finding more information on.  Once they selected their biome, they compiled information from two web-based resources.  The first being Pebblego.  The children are very familiar with this resource, as we have used it previously, and the children have had some free time to explored it as well.  On Wednesday, we used a source called Factcite.  This web resource has text that is a little more complex, so we worked with our book buddies to take notes off of this website.  The children have done a great job exploring both these sites.  We have also used some text resources, as well.  I’m proud of the children for being so focused and engaged through this process.

In class, we have been reading and learning all about landforms.  The children have created some pretty great maps, including several landforms.  On Friday, we had some fun with salt dough.  The children created three dimensional landform maps of their islands, including several landforms.  Their maps look pretty great, and they had a lot of fun creating them.

 

We had a wonderful afternoon, getting our bodies moving and our hearts healthy!  Mrs. Moulton set up four stations in the gym, for our Jump Rope for Heart time.  The kids had so much fun rotating through the stations.  Everyone was engaged, smiling, and even sweating a little, by the time we were done.  We raised a great deal of money, for an excellent cause!

   

 

Well, the weather wasn’t exactly warm, but at least we were dry!  The children started building their homes for their insects and animals.  They had some challenges, of slope, erosion potential, and material selection.  I was impressed with the amount of thought that the children put into their builds!  They also did a great job with teamwork!  I’m getting excited to see it all come together!

Although I think we were the luckiest class of the day, for weather, it was still pretty soggy.  Today we did some brainstorming of what animals and insects might live along our playground trail.  We then broke into teams and began to choose characters and generate stories.  Finally, we created natural flags that we placed along the trail, to save our location for the big build, during our next session.