Autumn reading Gone with the Wind |
Delaney helping a guest (Katie) get acclimated |
Part of our class enjoying an added music class to help out in music teacher interviews. |
Aly wearing the 100 year old hand-knit dress. |
Yarn Bombing |
Grandma Jeri introduced us to 'Yarn Bombing'. We are interested in doing this in our woods as well! |
Fabric (from long ago) cut and used to make scarves. |
Emma holding both very old and more 'modern' types of needles. |
Grandma Jeri and Alex sharing hand-spun silk yarn that is being made into a scarf. |
Hand-spun banana fiber yarn. We learned that the silk is very strong compared to banana fiber. |
Grandma Jeri showing us a dress her great (might need to add another great here) grandma knit 100 years ago! |
Christopher and Emma choosing fluency read alouds. |
Nikki and Garrett - Ready for fluency! |
Aly G and Delaney - Shortcuts |
Mr. Risch - Clownin' Around |
The weather FINALLY permits us to take advantage of our 'backyard' |
Students discovered that other people are using the woods as a dumping ground. :( |
Aly G and Cole partner writing. (Aly discovered how mood/environment affects her writing) |
Delaney and Christopher partner writing |
Emma and Ethan partner writing in the loft. |
Nikki, Hudson, and Austin writing in 'the round'. |
We'll show you some April snow!!!! |
Near the beginning |
Getting started |
Shaping our styrofoam to resemble our maquettes made from clay |
Delaney: "This is the easiest job in the world!" (Holding the styrofoam together:) |
Lessons from Mrs. Purney |
The very beginning (pics not in order). Notice the clean floor and defined edges of the sculptures in waiting. |
Before we began. Mrs. Purney came with the styrofoam arranged to semi-resemble the maquettes students made. |
Discussing figurative language |
Figurative language |
Max...Making sense of figurative language in his own way |
Yep. Pretty much how we all looked at the end! |
Kaiyli and Emma hard at work! |
The after shot. Looks like icebergs and ice chunks in a mucky sea. |
Hudson, right after our practice tornado drill. (Notice the styrofoam on his eyelashes.) |
A little extra fun right before we cleaned up. |
Lookin' good. Takin' shape. |
The AFTER picture. Can you believe it?!?!? While we expect to see tiny little styrofoam balls for weeks to come, the kids and adults did a marvelous job cleaning up.....until the CEMENT tomorrow! |