See the full gallery on Posterous Oh, my. I discovered that I prefer worms when they are not enmasse, but rather in my garden. This was especially true with our night crawlers, which can grow to 14 inches in length. Thankfully, our kindergarten students were able to appreciate these creatures on a much more...
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We have been enjoying our Yoga Class on Thursdays. The kids are getting very good at following the flow of the postures. It has been a wonderful experience. We will continue with Yoga until the end of the year. See the full gallery on Posterous
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See the full gallery on Posterous This week’s focus has been a chilly one! We are studying a non-fiction book entitled, “If You Could Go To Antarctica”, by Fay Robinson. We were amazed to learn that there are 17 different varieties of penguins in Antarctica, which inspired our whole-group art lesson.
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Art Night is just a week away! My how this year has flown by. All 4 before/after school musical groups have been asked to perform at Art Night this year. This year’s musical schedule looks like this: 6:30 4th Grade Strings, 6:45 5th Grade Band, 7:20 3rd Grade Recorder Club, and 7:30 Boomin Beats....
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On Thursday we will be attending the Ballet. We will be going on Tri-Met and with the weather so unpredictable I need the children to dress for a rainy day. We will be leaving at 10:30 and will return around 1:45. We will eat lunch when we return to school. Therefore, I’m asking the...
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As the springtime sunshine warms Room 34, ironically, we have begun exploring the icy environment of Antarctica. We sing a cute little ditty about the continents; see if your child is brave enough to share it with you! For additional highlights about the week, please visit http://mskennedy.posterous.com/earth-day-april-22-2011 Among all the academics, we are revisiting...
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What a spectacular day for a Garden Fair! On Saturday the sky was blue with not a cloud. The Lewis community was in a festive mood as they shopped for plants to add to their gardens. The profits will go to the Garden Learning Center. This Thursday I will be going with the fourth...
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—-Big week! We are going to the Oregon Ballet Theater’s Performance of Song and Dance this Thursday! Please don’t forget to send your second grader with a bit of extra food in their sack lunches and a raincoat. We will eat a snack before we leave, then eat our full lunches upon return, so...
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What do a grapefruit and the earth have in common? Did you think they are both spheres? We did. When beginning our thinking about the earth, geometry, language, geography, and social sciences were all part of our learning. Each April we celebrate Earth Day. Here are some of your child’s ideas about the earth. ...
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We went to Rice Rock Museum on Monday and what a great way to kick off the week! The Children were thrilled by what they saw and learned so much. I especially want to thank our awesome Chaperons for coming with us and the assistance you gave us in making the trip a safe...
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Miss Lisa has really enjoyed being your children’s main classroom teacher for the past four weeks. She will be the main teacher for two more weeks, and then she will be team teaching with Teacher Dana. It has been an amazing opportunity to work closely with your children and see their development. She has...
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This week marks the end of our multiplication unit and the beginning of our fraction investigations. After completing our multiplication post-test, we will explore different shapes and objects and compare them by using common fractions ranging from halves to eighths to decide whether a fraction of one shape is always equal to the same...
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And the steam ship keeps chugging along… We are knee-deep in spring wonderment! This week brings two very different but amazing field trips to the Kids’ Clean Water Festival and Philip Foster Farms. I want to thank the chaperones for being so flexible with me. What am I learning from planning so many field...
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We’re in field trip mode this week. The Clean Water Festival on Tuesday and Philip Foster Farm on Thursday are going to keep us busy getting ready for and then assessing what we learned at the two very different places. Please make sure your child dresses for the weather on both of these trips....
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This week we will wrap up our work with Goldilocks and the Three Bears and begin work on the book, If You Could go to Antarctica. This non-fiction book will be the center of our work-time activities. Students will learn factual information about the continent such as climate, plants, and animals, as well as...
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We really enjoyed our walking field trip to Reed College Cooley Gallery last Friday. The students particularly enjoyed writing calligraphy with real nibs and ink. We also made weathergrams in our calligraphy experience. We are using the same attention to detail in our cursive handwriting lessons now. Our science unit involves using microscopes. Students...
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Last week we continued to do activities on community places and helpers. In preparation for Art Night, we have been adding more places to our community map-mural in the hallway, and will continue to work on it this week too. For writing, students are inputting their community poems into MS Word docs and Google...
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