Happy, happy Friday! I hope you all have a great weekend with the beautiful weather headed our way. 🌻 We had an awesome and productive week in the classroom. Read below for what your child learned and upcoming events/announcements.
April 11th 10:00 AM: Artist in Me Gallery Crawl. The students will perform a song about each artist that we studied and then you will go on a scavenger hunt with your child to find all of their artwork. You do not want to miss this so put it on your calendar! This event will be in our classroom.
April 15th-22nd: Spring Break
May 7th: Field trip to Emerald Hollow Mine. Go ahead and put this on your calendar if you would like to chaperone. It will be an all day field trip (it is in Hiddenite, NC) and I will send more information as we get closer to the date.
Math:
We continued learning about telling time this week and students learned how to read and write time to the half hour. The trickiest part is them trying to figure out which hour it is when the hour hand is halfway between two numbers. We are still working on this skill! Encourage your child at home to practice this skill by noticing the clocks around them (both analog and digital) and attempting to figure out the time! If it is not exactly at an hour or half hour mark, they could at least determine what hour of the day it is by looking just at the hour hand. Incorporating this into their everyday life will really help them progress with this math concept.
Literacy:
Our literacy schedule for the rest of the year is the following:
Monday: 10 new spelling words and daily 5
Tuesday: guided reading groups and daily 5
Wednesday: passion projects
Thursday: passion projects
Friday: spell check, daily 5, and finish any passion project writing from Wed. and Thurs.
This week during our passion project time, students learned how to label pictures. We talked about what "labeling" is and why we use it in life. I showed them many examples around the classroom of things that I have labeled. Each student chose one thing that had to do with their topic, they drew a picture of it, and labeled all of the parts. They had to label at least 8 things on the picture. For example if they drew a picture of a dog they would label ear, mouth, tongue, whiskers, tail, body, head, paws, etc. They created a rough draft, we helped them edit their picture and spelling, and they created a final copy.
Thematic:
We finished studying Henri Matisse this week and moved onto Edgar Degas today. Students rotated through three stations this week:
1. Matisse bowls: Students learned how to paper mâché this week. They used modge podge to glue Matisse styled shapes onto a balloon. Once the glue dried, they got to pop the balloon and it left a beautiful bowl! These are definitely a class favorite.
2. Matisse paper people cut-outs: We learned that Matisse loves scissors and cutting paper. Students got some body-like shapes and had to cut them out and into smaller pieces and create their own person.
3. How-to Spot a Matisse mini-book: To review each artist, the students illustrate a book about "how to spot a..." This reviews the key characteristics and art styles of each artist so if they walked into an art gallery, they would know an artist by their painting.
Thank you to our mystery readers this week...Carolyn Sink (Anna's grandmother) and Gloria McGlamery (Hudson's gigi)!
Have a great weekend!
Love,
Mrs. James
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