April showers bring May flowers...

We have spent some time preparing for Education Week, which will take place next week. All classes were involved in a "Teacher Portrait" project. Our class learned how to sketch and shade faces, using guidelines.

On Monday, students will also take part in sessions of their choice. This is an activity that goes along with the theme of Education Week, "We are Teachers". Our class decided to teach a session on paper folding. We will teach other students how to do origami, paper airplanes and fortune tellers. Three students from our class volunteered to be teachers on Monday afternoon. The rest of our class will take part in other sessions being taught around the school.

In Language Arts, we worked very hard to finish our "Three Little Pigs" spin off stories. They will be typed and ready for illustrating next week. They are very excited about publishing a book.

We continued our Shel Silverstein poetry study. This week we focused on the books, "Runny Babbit" and "Don't Bump the Glump".

We have been trying to incorporate handwriting into a lot of our daily activities. Students have been using cursive writing in their agendas and spelling activities.

In Math, we continue to learn about division, using concrete and visual representations. Students were given a homework assignment to come up with their own division story problem to demonstrate their understanding of equal sharing and equal groups. We shared these with the class and took turns solving each other's questions.

Science this week was all about bridge building at home! We can tell that the students spent a lot of time working on their bridge projects this week. They all look stable, strong and creative! We will be presenting these next week. 

In Art, students used triangle scrapbook pieces to make mosaics. 

Congratulations to this week and next week's Student of the Week". Students are allowed to bring in special photos, drawings or stories to pin up on the Special Student board in our classroom. At the end of the week, they will read their favorite book to the class.