First Second News Week 37

by Sarah Segall | Jun 17, 2017 | In The Loop

Spanish Language Arts

This week we finished reading Molly la valiente y yo and prepared to read out last story of the year Dragones y gigantes.Our objectives were:

• recognize present tense verb inflections ending in -er and -ir
• create a synonyms poster from words in Molly la valiente y yo
• review correct capitalization of proper nouns
• use the comprehension strategies making connections making predictions and visualizing during our first read
• review and use the comprehension skill point of view during our second read

There is no spelling test!

Social studies with Ms. Marci

This week we continued our new unit on Frontier Explorers.  On Thursday we read about how Lewis and Clark discovered that they may not be able to accomplish one of their three tasks;  to find a direct water route to the Pacific Ocean.

How tall is a Grizzly Bear? About the length of two first graders stacked on to of each other.

Our objectives were to:

•  locate the Louisiana Territory, St. Louis, Missouri River, and the Rocky Mountains on a map

•  explain the reasons that Lewis and Clark went on their expedition

•  understand that there were many, many Native American tribes living in Louisiana Territory before the Lewis and Clark expedition

•  recall basic facts about Lewis and Clark’s encounters with Native Americans

•  explain why and how Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark

Ms. Laura’s H&G group:

We continued our study of Civil Rights Leaders by learning about Rosa Parks and Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.  Next week, we finish up our unit by learning about Cesar Chavez.  On Tuesday, June 20^th, we will review and have our assessment for this unit.  Just a final word about this year:  I have loved working with these bright and energetic students.  Every day was full of questions and answers and enthusiasm.  Thank you for the experience!

Science

This week we finished our science domain on Simple Machines.  We read about and watched a short film on Elijah McCoy or the “Real McCoy” and how his invention of the Oil Cup revolutionized the locomotive.  We related this to friction and did an experiment with friction and oil.  We will be taking our simple machine assessments on Monday.

Our objectives this week were to:
•  Students will understand the importance of Scientific Technology

•  Identify Elijah McCoy as being instrumental in the invention of a machine to reduce friction

•  Understand that friction is produced when two surfaces are rubbed against one another and lubricants or rollers can reduce friction

Spelling:

We took our spelling test on Friday.  Our activity this week was rhyming words with our sorts.  These were due on Friday.

For handwriting we practiced with shape words.

Our idiom this week: “It’s a piece of cake”

Math

This week in the red group, with Maestra Ivary, we finished out last math chapter! Using bar models in multiplication and division.

Our objectives were:

• use bar models to solve real-world multiplication problems
• write multiplication sentences to solve real-world problems
• use bar models to solve division word problems
• write division sentences to sove word problems

How many squares can you form with 20 sticks?

You can form 5 squares with 20 sticks. Here’s our fact family!

This week in the orange group, with Maestra Sarah, we had a great time in our Multiplication Tables of 2, 5, 10, 3, and 4 units.  Our objectives were:

• skip-count by 2s, 5s, 10s, 3s, and 4s
• solve multiplication word problems
• use dot paper to multiply by 2, 5, 10, 3, and 4
• use known multiplication facts to find new multiplication facts
• identify related multiplication facts

Kindergarten Week 37

by Sarah Segall | Jun 17, 2017 | In The Loop

Spanish Literacy

Last week we started our last literacy unit, En el mar. One of our overarching goals for this unit is to have students learn more about oceans and ocean-related topics through listening to and reading various kinds of printed materials, while building vocabulary and exploring the topic creating hands-on arts and crafts. We have read several different stories this week, both fiction and non-fiction, that explore the plants and animals that live in and around oceans. Some of our favorite stories this week included, Swimmy, El mar, El oceano, El pez arcoiris y la ballena, Humphry y la ballena perdida, amongst others. Students worked on expert groups focusing on one sea animal and sharing their learning with the class. What a fun literacy week!

Spanish Math

This week in math, we finished our last math unit, El dinero, the best way possible: selling and buying toys at our little tiendita! We all had such a great time figuring out the different amounts of money needed to purchase something. We also had a great discussion about the concept of money. It is pretty insightful to hear their interesting comments and ideas! You can most definitely support at home by playing store, playing a trading coin game, or picking a handful of coins and estimating how many!

“Learning to count coins also implements what children already know about sorting, likeness, and differences, counting, adding, subtracting, using numbers sentences, and so on.” -Math in Focus

English Social Studies

This week we began a unit on Stories.  The class will be hearing several stories through out this unit, some familiar and some new, such as Chicken Little, Three Billy Goats Gruff, and Momotaro: Peach Boy to name a few.

Our objectives were to :

•  Demonstrate familiarity with these stories

•  Understand that stories can be a kind of fiction, or a narrative that comes from a writer’s imagination

•  Understand fiction can be in many different forms, including folktales

•  Identify the beginning, middle, and end of a story

•  identify the characters and setting in a story

Our new sorts this week were the diagraph “st” and “s” and “t” sounds we also worked on recognizing vowels and their sounds.  Our songs for the week was “Magnets” and “Old MacDonald Had Some Vowels”.

For handwriting we practiced writing our vowels.

English Science

This week we began a short unit on magnets.  Some students shared magnets from home.  The class listened to read -alouds about magnets and had a great time experimenting with them.

Sharing my magnets!

Our objectives were to :

•  Understand that magnets got their name from an area of the world that was once called Magnesia and that sailors used Lodestones from this area as navigational tools.

•  Identify the North and South poles of a magnet

•  Recognize that like poles repel and opposite poles attract

•  Understand that magnets are attracted to iron

•  Understand that the Earth’s core is made of mostly iron

Third / Fourth News Week 37

by Sarah Segall | Jun 15, 2017 | In The Loop

Language Arts

This week we worked on wrapping up many things for the end of the school year. The students each chose a chapter book to read throughout the summer, in Spanish.  They will receive a packet to go along with their book.  This isn’t mean to be seen as summer work but more to keep them on task with their Spanish reading and writing.  Each week there will be one short task to complete using their summer Spanish book.

This week we also worked on finishing our Communications unit.  We have SO enjoyed this unit!  We talked about our experiences with people who have lost one of their senses and how that affected their life.  During this last story we talked about Braille and how it came to be invented.  This story was a great example of perseverance, showing that a 12-year old boy set his mind to inventing something and didn’t let anyone or anything stand in his way.

Math

This week we finished out last chapter Symmetry. Our objectives were:

• relate rotational symmetry to turns
• trace a figure to determine whether it has rotational symmetry
• draw a shape or pattern about a line of symmetry and check for rotational symmetry
• complete a symmetric shape or pattern
• create symmetric patterns on grid paper

I am also collecting empty toilet paper and paper towel tubes for an activity on Tuesday. If you have any please send them with your kiddo!

History and Geography

This week we finished our last unit, The American Revolution. Our objectives were:

• describe battles in the southern colonies
• identify George Rogers Clark and describe his role in the war in the West
• identify John Paul Jones and describe his role in the American Revolution
• Identify Benedict Arnold and explain how and why he betrayed his country
• describe the final major battle at Yorktown
• explain how the Americans defeated the British

We will be having our Wax Museum on Monday at 9:15 am! Please stop by and see the awesome work and costumes.

Science

Students visiting the Third/Fourth grade science fair.

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3/4 grade Week 36

by Sarah Segall | Jun 11, 2017 | In The Loop

Language Arts

Time sure is flying by!  We continued working on our persuasive writing process this week.  The students completed their posters, put them on display, and then participated in a peer-evaluation and a self-evaluation. Students also worked on typing their persuasive essays, editing them, having two peers edit them, then making their final corrections again on the computer.

We also continued reading in our very fun communications unit.  In this unit, students have the opportunity to investigate the various ways information is communicated. They deepen their understanding of the forms and functions of communication by investigating the various ways people and animals transmit and receive messages. The students explore the big idea “The ability to communicate is a basic need that continues to evolve and change” while taking into consideration the essential questions:

History and Geography

This week we continued learning about the American Revolution. Our objectives were:

• compare and contrast the British and Continental armies
• understand the challenges facing George Washington as commander in chief
• understand the roles that women and African Americans played in the war effort
• understand Washington’s plan for winning the war
• understand the battles of Trenton and Princeton and their significance
• understand the course of the war in New York State
• identify Generals Burgoyne and Howe and understand their roles in the British campaign
• describe the conditions at Valley Forge
• describe the character of George Washington and how it affected the outcome of the Revolutionary War
• identify Fredrick von Steuben and discuss his contribution to the Revolutionary War

Students took home their background paper for their final step of the Wax Museum Project. I am also changing the date of the Max Museum to Monday June 19 because of the Father’s Day car wash on Friday.

Math

This week we finished our chapter on Area and Perimeter. We also started our last chapter Symmetry! Our objectives were:

• review for the chapter test by playing Math Jeopardy
• demonstrate understanding and mastery on the Chapter 12 test
• identify a line of symmetry of a figure

Students also took the SBAC-Math this Wednesday and Thursday, they flew through it and felt very confident. Great job! Students also took home their tests on Friday so that they could do test corrections.

Science

This week students dedicated their time to finalize all the details before their biography reports and presentations

Will be wrapping up our science module, Magnetism and Electricity with a mini science fair. Students have selected an area of investigation done during this trimester and will be sharing and demonstrating during our mini science fair!

First Second News Week 36

by Sarah Segall | Jun 10, 2017 | In The Loop

Spanish Language Arts

This week we finished our unit on Fossils and began our new unit Courage! We read Molly la valiente y yo. Our objectives were:

• use the comprehension skill Main Idea and Details during our second read
• review antonyms and synonyms
• complete a unit review adjectives, adverbs, contractions, words that tell us time and order, and singular and plural nouns
• develop understanding of spelling patterns of words ending in -ado, -ido, ando, and iendo
• understand the capitalization of proper nouns
• use the comprehension strategies Making Connections, Making Predictions, and Visualizing during our first read

New Spelling test on Thursday June 15- this is our LAST spelling test of the year! :

1. estado (state)
2. ilustrado (illustrated)
3. recogido (picked up)
4. andando (walking)
5. iluminando (illuminating)
6. arreglado (arranged)
7. dormido (slept)
8. comiendo (eating)
9. cantando (singing)
10. corriendo (running)

English Social Studies and Science

Social studies with Ms. Marci

This week We continued our new unit on Frontier Explorers.  On Tuesday we wrote a letter from the point of view of John Adams to Thomas Jefferson asking permission to purchase the Louisiana Territory.  This week we also began learning about Lewis and Clark and their Corps of Discovery expedition.

Our objectives were to:

•  locate the Louisiana Territory, St. Louis, Missouri River, and the Rocky Mountains on a map

•  explain the reasons that Lewis and Clark went on their expedition

•  understand that there were many, many Native American tribes living in Louisiana Territory before the Lewis and Clark expedition

•  recall basic facts about Lewis and Clark’s encounters with Native Americans

•  explain why and how Sacagawea helped Lewis and Clark

Ms. Laura’s H&G group:

We started our final unit, Civil Rights Leaders, by learning about Susan B. Anthony, Mary McLeod Bethune, Eleanor Roosevelt and Jackie Robinson.  We learned how these people worked hard to promote equality.  They lived in different times and had different passions, but all were successful in helping people.

Science

This week we continued our science domain on Simple Machines.  We had a wonderful invention fair in class on Monday.  The students did great on presenting their very creative compound machines.  We are focusing on compound/ complex                                                                                                                                          machines all week.

Our objectives this week were to:
•  develop an understanding of quantities associated with energy, movement, and change

•  understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world

•  explain that simple machines can be combined together to make a complex machine

•  examine and name the types of simple machines that are found in a complex machine

•  recognize and name complex machines that we use in everyday life

Spelling:

We took our spelling test on Friday.  Our activity this week was word scrabble, (finding new words out of our sort words).These were due on Friday.  For our handwriting we practiced number words.  In phonics this week we looked at adding -ed to words and when we have to double the consonants or drop an e.  We also worked on capitalizing “I” and proper nouns.

Our idiom this week:  “I’m green with an envy”

Math

This week in the red group, with Maestra Ivary, we finished our unit on Shapes and Patterns!

Our objectives were:

• identify, describe, extend, and create patterns using different sizes, shapes, colors, and positions (turning)
• review the chapter by playing Math Train and experimenting with Tan-grams
• demonstrate understanding and mastery of the chapter on the unit test

Students took home a review packet of the last two chapters that is great practice and reinforcement!

Multiples of 5 game

• skip-count by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s
• solve multiplication word problems
• use dot paper to multiply
• use known multiplication facts to find new multiplication and division facts
• solve division word problems

Kindergarten Week 36

by Sarah Segall | Jun 10, 2017 | In The Loop

Spanish Literacy

What a wonderful way to finalize our unit En equipo! Our kindergarteners did such a fantastic job performing the play La gallinita roja. We have very talented children!

This week we dedicated our literacy time to continue to explore Elementos Literarios, in detail. We focused on every area, describing it, analyzing it, giving examples of and acting ! You all  will be  able to see, very soon, the product of all of this hard work. After our literacy studies student will be able to:

• Identify the setting of a story
• Name the characters of a story
• Identify the problem and the solution of a story
• Retell the events of a story (sequencing) using transitions words
• Identify and explain character’s traits
• Explain a cause and effect situation

Spanish Math

Mathematical situations can be represented in many ways. Addition and subtraction can be shown with objects, pictures, models, numbers, and words. For the last two weeks we have spent time exploring the beginning skills in algebra using symbols to represent mathematical situations. We discussed the concepts of addition, subtraction  and equality. Story problems are a common context for applying these concepts. Kindergartners should be able to understand simple joining, take away and comparison problems. As the story problems are presented, children use manipulatives and models to make sense of the situations, paying close attention to Spanish language structure and vocabulary.

Extra Extra!!! The kindergarten class will be having  Feria de las pulgas (flea market) next Thursday, June 15th at 2: 45. Students will be selling toys at very reasonable prices. They can bring change to buy some too, if they are interested! This will be a wonderful opportunity to give our last math unit, Money, a very authentic purpose!

English Social Studies

This week we are having fun reading and discussing different versions of fairy tales to accompany our previous unit on kings and queens.  The class has been talking about different plots, settings, and other story structures that are similar and/or different in each story.

Fairy Tale Fun

Our objectives were to :

•  describe the characters, settings, and plots in the stories we have read.

•  discuss the lessons or morals of a particular fairy tale

•  listen to and understand a variety of text, including fictional stories, fairy tales, historical narratives, informational text, nursery rhymes, and poems.

•  recall and sequence events from the stories read

•  with assistance, use a variety of graphic organizers to compare and contrast stories

Our new sorts this week were the digraphs “wh” and “th”.  Our poem for the week was “What I Can Do” and the song “This Land is Your Land”.  For handwriting we practiced writing our color words.

English Science

       Inspired sharing

This week we finished our science domain on Taking Care of the Earth.  Our focus was on real life solutions that we can do ourselves to help take care of the earth.  We read the poem “What I Can Do”.
Our objectives were to :

•  identify possible solutions for the problems of garbage, litter, pollution, and conserving natural resources discussed throughout this domain

•  understand why people have a special responsibility to take care of the earth

•  categorize and organize facts and information from this unit

First Second News Week 35

by Sarah Segall | Jun 3, 2017 | In The Loop

Spanish Language Arts

This week we read ¡Vamos a buscar dinosaurios!. This is the last story of our fosil unit! our objectives were:

• review antonyms and synonyms
• continue working on writing descriptive paragraphs
• review consonant blends bl, br, gl, gr, cl, and cr
• use the comprehension strategies asking questions, making predictions, and making connections during our first read

There will be no spelling test this week!

English Social Studies and Science

Social studies with Ms. Marci

“Which way to Kentucky?”

This week we continued our new unit on Frontier Explorers.  On Tuesday we did a little

Inspired sharing, Daniel Boone myth.

trailblazing over to Fallen Leaf Lake and pretended that we were Daniel Boone and Ax Men clearing the trail to make the Wilderness Road. This week we also worked on mapping the changes that occurred during The Louisiana Territory purchase and how this affected the size of our country.

              Daniel Boone and the Ax Men

Our objectives were to
•  locate the Appalachian and Rocky Mountains, Mississippi and Missouri Rivers, and New Orleans on a map
•  understand why Thomas Jefferson wanted to purchase New Orleans
•  locate the Louisiana Territory on a map
•  understand the significance of the Louisiana Territory and purchase

Ms. Laura’s H&G group:

We talked about becoming a citizen of The United States of America, the requirements, the rights and the responsibilities.  We read and recited the Oath of Allegiance that is part of the naturalization ceremony.  We reviewed and took our unit assessment.  The results were impressive!  The students presented their Immigration Projects.  We all enjoyed the tremendous efforts and performances of the students.  Congratulations, all!  Afterwards, we snacked on foods from various countries and presented summaries of our presentations to the first graders.

Science

       Checking out the robot

This week we continued our science domain on Simple Machines.  We learned about pulleys and more about gears. We had a great walking field trip to Liberty Middle School to see the Camas High School’s Robotics Club in action.  We were able to observe simple machines being put to use in complex machines.

      Walking to Liberty

Our objectives this week were to:

•  students will develop an understanding of quantities associated with energy, movement , and change
•  understand interrelationships among science, technology, and human activity and how they can affect the world
•  understand that a gear is a wheel with ridges or teeth that connects and turns another gear
•  identify the direction that gears turn
•  explain that a pulley is a simple machine that is used for lifting heavy objects or moving   objects                                                         up and down or side-to-side

Gears

Spelling:

We took our spelling test on Friday.  Our activity this week was rainbow word practice. These were due on Friday.
For handwriting we practiced color words.
In phonics this week we reviewed parts of speech: adjectives, adverbs, and contractions.
Idiom for the week: ” I’m feeling under the weather.”

Thank you to the parents who walked with us to Liberty.  I hope you enjoyed this peak into a great Club at the high school.

Math

Making models with solid figures!

This week in the red group, with Maestra Ivary, wecontinued our unit on chapter 19 shapes and patterns!

Our objectives were:

• combine smaller plane shapes to make larger plane shapes
• seperate larger plane shapes into smaller plane shapes
• combine and seperate plane shapes in figures
• draw plane shapes and figure on dot paper and square grid paper
• recognize and identify solid shapes
• build models using solid shapes
• combine and
  

  How many of each figure our we using in our model?

  seperate solid shapes

This week in the orange group, with Maestra Sarah, we flew through the rest of our subtraction with borrowing unit and jumped right into our Multiplication & Division unit.  Our objectives were:

• subtract from a three-digit number with regrouping
• subtract from three- and four-digits numbers, across zeros with regrouping
• apply the inverse operations of addition and subtraction to check for accuracy
• use equal  groups and repeated addition to multiply
• make multiplication stories about pictures
• 

  Can we name all the solid figures? Yes we can!

  make multiplication sentences

• divide to share equally
• divide by repeated subtraction of equal groups
• solve multiplication word problems
• solve division word problems

Art

In early May the students finished their Mother’s Day art projects, and I know you’re enjoying these wonderful Folk Art Flowers. The students worked very hard on this multi-step, mixed media project: painting the wood panel, making their own painted papers to use for the vase and flower circles, cutting out flower shapes, decorating popsicle sticks with markers for the “table,” and adding hole-punch dots. Thank you to Ms. Marci for providing the wood panels from one of her artist friends!

Another project that all the students have been working on this month is drawing and painting their Portrait on a fence post. Since all the students enjoy looking at the fun fence portraits that were completed last year, Maestra Sarah wants to continue the portraits on the new part of the fence at SWS. This has provided a good opportunity for the students to learn about drawing facial features: shapes of eyes, the space between eyes, spaces between eyes, nose and mouth, hair texture, etc. The challenge has been fitting the figure into the 6” x 36” size of the fence post, and also painting on the rough wood surface. The students have done a great job with their unique portraits and fun fashion designs!

The 1st and 2nd graders also made some wonderful portraits of our SWS mascot, Lily! The students learned how to use basic shapes to draw Lily’s head and shoulders, and then they created her fur by using “dabs” of paint to create texture.

The students continued working on their drawing and painting skills in their pictures of our national symbol, the Bald Eagle. We looked at Andy Warhol’s print, “Eagle,” and also several photos of eagles. We discussed the difference between a bird of prey and the bluebirds and goldfinches that the students painted last month. The students again did a wonderful job using basic shapes for drawing, and using their paintbrushes to create “feather” texture in these beautiful birds.

Watercolor Resist: We talked about the upcoming summer season and trips to the beach. The students made a still life drawing of an actual beachball, bucket and shovel, and some sand dollars. We tried overlapping these shapes to create depth. The students used crayon first and then watercolor to paint some beautiful summery art! These will be on the bulletin board at school, and I will send home their “Lily” paintings and Eagle paintings next week.

Kindergarten Week 35

by Sarah Segall | Jun 3, 2017 | In The Loop

Spanish Literacy

This week we dove into literary studies! Students are working on creating a lap book incorporating all elements of the fiction story La gallinita roja. Students are exploring elements such as title, setting, characters, problem, solution, sequence of the story, characters traits, determine cause and effect situations, etc…Students are felling very confident with their role on our play and will be ready to present on Tuesday, June 6th! We also continued to work on our Literacy routines. The following are the times for the plays: 

10: 50 Maxx, Evelyn, Viviana, Bryce

11:10  Andres, Aleya, Henry, Maya

11:20  Evie, Ellie, Hudson, Owen

Spanish Math

This were math objectives for this week:

• Review addition concepts seen last week
• Understand simple subtraction
• Understand the minus “-” symbol
• Write symbols and numerals to write number sentences
• Represent subtraction stories with subtraction sentences (understand the vocabulary of the different scenarios presented)
• Apply the concept of “how many more”
• Compare two number sets and show the number sentence
• Work towards reaching fluency with subtraction fact to 5 (challenge: beyond 5)

English Social Studies

Inspired sharing for Taking Care of the Earth domain.

This week we finished our unit on Kings and Queens.  We read the poem “If I Were King”, and also read  two versions of Snow White.
Our objectives were to:

•  describe the characters, settings, and plots in the stories
•  recite ” If I Were King”
•  discuss the lesson in Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs that shows that goodness prevails and is rewarded
•  listen to and understand a variety of text, including fictional stories, fairy tales, historical narratives, informational text, nursery rhymes, and poems
•  sequence 4 to 6 pictures illustrating events in a story

Our new sorts this week were  “h”, “s”,”c” and the diagraph  “sh” and “ch”.  Our poem for the week was “If I Were King”.
We also worked on practicing our color songs.

  practicing handwriting on the white boards

Searching for word wall words in our poem.

English Science

This  week we continued our  science domain on Taking Care of the Earth.  We  continued to discuss pollution, including water and air pollution.  On Thursday we did an experiment in class to demonstrate how we contribute to air pollution.

Adding color to water for each daily pollutant we put into the air.

Even shampoo and liquid cleaners can add air pollution.

Our objectives were to:
•  understand that air pollution from one location to make even the air that is far away and other places around the world dirty
•  identify sources of air pollution, including cars and electricity produced by coal fired power plants
•  understand the effect of air pollution on human health
•  explain how to reduce air pollution by conserving natural resources
•  compare and contrast freshwater, salt water, and wastewater.
•  identify sources of water pollution, including factory waste and garbage
•  explain that a water treatment plant can remove unhealthy chemicals and pollutants from water to make it usable again

Art

In early May the students finished their Mother’s Day art projects, and I hope you’re enjoying these wonderful Folk Art Flowers. The students worked very hard on this multi-step, mixed media project: painting the wood panel, making their own painted papers to use for the vase and flower circles, cutting out flower shapes, decorating popsicle sticks with markers for the “table,” and adding hole-punch dots. Thank you to Ms. Marci for providing the wood panels from one of her artist friends!

The kindergarteners also made some wonderful 3-dimensional butterflies. We finished reading Eric Carle’s “Very Hungry Caterpillar” and reviewed the life cycle of caterpillar to butterfly. The students learned how to use paper strips to make the body and wings of the butterfly, and then learned how to curl paper strips to make spiral designs for the butterfly wings. These colorful butterflies can be hung in a window.

Another project that all the students have been working on this month is drawing and painting their Portrait on a fence post. Since all the students enjoy looking at the fun fence portraits that were completed last year, Maestra Sarah wants to continue the portraits on the new part of the fence at SWS. This has provided a good opportunity for the students to learn about drawing facial features: shapes of eyes, the space between eyes, spaces between eyes, nose and mouth, hair texture, etc. The challenge has been fitting the figure into the 6” x 36” size of the fence post, and also painting on the rough wood surface. The students have done a great job with their unique portraits and fashion designs! A special thank you to Maddie Johnson, Ellie’s older sister, who helped out all the kindergarteners while they were painting their fence posts!

Seashells:  We talked about the season of summer and looked at some paintings of children at the seashore by Mary Cassatt. We also looked at lots of seashells and noticed their beautiful shapes, colors, and patterns. The students used neon crayons to draw several seashells and then they added watercolor paint to suggest the sand and water.