Cut and Print 5-25-18

It has been an incredibly productive week in room 3! We’ve had some great times with math, reading, art, and even helped our community.

A lot of our math and science work this week centered around our change exploration, but we did other work that was super fascinating. We worked on sorting our animal cards and had a blast exploring what we knew about animals and symbols to sort them correctly. Yianni was surprised there were so many mammal cards and wondered if there were actually more mammals in the world. Jerome thought that the amoebas and other ‘protozoa’ were by far the weirdest group of animals. Teddy was helping sort the cards and noticed that they needed to make a new pile because there was a new symbol they hadn’t seen before. Sokrates recognized that the symbol for mammal is actually part of a cow (the udder) and I explained why that was a good symbol for mammals. We not only practiced sorting, we learned a lot about animals and did a lot of great comparison work.

Our reading study this week continued to focus on poetry, but this time we studied the form of a poem, not a specific poet. We studied humorous poems, narrative poems, free verse, and rhyming poems. We wrote our own poems and Anja’s rhyming poem about a bat that got fat and lost his hat was probably the most popular, but we really enjoyed making our own rhymes. However, the class favorite, and the one that Paolo said he just couldn’t get out of his head, was The Dance of the 13 Skeletons by Jack Prelutsky. We really loved saying the refrain together and feeling the beat of the syllables. We also continued practicing tongue twisters and feeling how our mouths moved and pronounced the words.

Our art explorations this week focused on making prints, which was a huge hit. We spread paint on the table, first with our hands and then after with brushes and sponges, and then pressed the paper to the table to get the print. Niki realized she could make a copy of the print by pressing the paper to a second piece of paper, although there wasn’t as much paint on the copy. Bisola noticed that, when someone sprayed the table with water, the colors blended even better, so that was cool. Paolo compared the lines in the paint to the wrinkles in his skin, which people thought was a good comparison. This was not only a great way for us to practice blending colors, but we also got to experiment with a new technique to make designs!

We had a great time making bags for Amelia’s friends for children staying at the Ronald McDonald House. Don’t forget to keep practicing for the program on Friday! We have Field Day on Tuesday, so students should wear the white shirts sent home this week along with whatever shorts they’d like. Enjoy Memorial Day and the three day weekend everyone!

2 thoughts on “Cut and Print 5-25-18

  1. Btw, thanks for this week’s update! I love reading these/Anja loves when I read them to her!

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