Awesome Authors

We have been reading our stories to each other in preparation for our Awesome Authors presentation! Please come to our classroom at 2:00 for snacks (made by us) and stories on Friday 6/13!! 

 

Quilt Expert!

Mrs. Palermo, Jackson's grandma, and our school nurse for many years, is also a Quilt Expert! She came into our classroom with a basket full of quilts and shared her expertise with us. We loved looking at her designs, color and patterns. Jackson even helped his grandma work on a very special quilt too! Thank you, Mrs. Palermo for sharing your beautiful art with us:)

Patchwork Quilts!

Our final math unit this school year is all about quilts! What is it about patchwork quilts that make them so universally appealing? Is it their symmetry, design or pattern? Maybe it is the stories they tell or memories they hold. For many reasons, quilts seems to fascinate children as well as adults! Quilts are rich in mathematics as children use a variety of skills, including sorting, patterning, geometry, fractions, ratio, and estimation. We are in the process of creating paper patchwork quilts of growing complexity and beauty. We are also reading a variety of quilt stories and the children have loved looking at our quilting design books many students have brought in to share.

Chick Observations

Time With Chicks!

13 Chicks Hatch!

How excited we were when we arrived to school on Tuesday morning! The previous day we saw a few eggs with cracks and heard peeps coming from the incubator. We are happy to report that we have 13 very adorable chicks. They have made themselves very comfortable in the beautiful brooding box that Maya's dad made for us. Children have a natural sense of curiosity about living things in the world around them. Building on this curiosity, students can develop an understanding of biology concepts through direct experience with living things, their life cycles and habitats. Embryology is the the science of the growth and development of living things. Through this experience, we studied the development of the chicken embryo. We observed and journaled about the growing embryo inside the egg until it hatched into a chick. What an amazing experience we have shared!

Environmental Learning is Fun!

Our E.L.F. parents, Jake's mom and Ellie's mom, taught us all about owls! We watched a puppet show that taught us many cool things about owls- how their wings are designed to fly silently, how their eyes let in a lot of light to help them see and that they can see very far away. We also learned about the foods they eat by dissecting owl pellets! We found many bones and fur from small animals!