History & Geography
Our class was full of spirit this week. We had some wonderful hairdos, crazy socks , and terrific book characters .
We began our new social studies unit on colonial America we read about the beginning of the English colonies and reviewed our kwl chart that we made last week. On Fridays we read about the founding of Jamestown and began working on a lapbook for the unit. The class was so excited to be doing a lap book this year.
Science
Student spent several days doing research for their ecosystem papers. They spent time on the computers looking for information as well as signing books in our library that can help support their research. For our read aloud this week we read about human changes to the environment and the impact these changes have. We also read about protecting the environment and brainstorm ideas that we could do ourselves. We ended the week with an excited crew ready for their adventures at the Portland Zoo Snooze.
Our parents were great too!!
The parents who survived the Zoo Snooze sleepover!
English Spelling
We had fun with grammar this week. On Tuesday we watch Schoolhouse Rock’s “Conjunction Junction” and “Interjection!”.
The clouds love the music and it was a great way to review both of those Concepts. On Thursday and Friday we did practice worksheets identifying different types of conjunctions and interjections. In our journals we wrote about what it would be like to be in a New Colony as one entry and we also hypothesized what happened to the lost colony of Roanoke Island. For our sort words, we continue to work with homophones, compounds, and prefixes and suffixes.
Art
In both 2/3 and 4/5 art this week, we read a book about Picasso and looked at a variety of his amazing artwork. It is always interesting to hear the students’ insights about Picasso’s different styles! Then the students worked on a still life drawing of the musical instruments that Señor Kit brought back from Cuba. We’ll continue working on both a realistic and a cubist rendition of the same still life.
Music
This week pairs of students composed, practiced and performed original songs in Spanish with topics ranging from space rockets to dogs.