Highlights from the Week 3/22-3/26

Here are some highlights of what the second graders have been up to
-Listening to a read-aloud of The Calder Game and practicing summarizing
-Building squares and rectangles using our pentominoes
-Solving Calder word problems using addition, subtraction, multiplication and division concepts
-Making Calder inspired aquariums and fish with Tracy and Aunt Robin
-Making mobile pieces for our large mobile project with Laure
-Creating a self portrait out of wire
-Recording facts about Alexander Calder and his art
-Writing paragraphs about Calder and the important facts about his life
-Finishing up the circus diaramas with Carrie and the simple machine circus toys with Kim

Highlights from the Week 3/15-3/19

Find out what happened this week in Room 3 and Room 9:
-Learning more about the life of our Great Artist, "Sandy" Calder,
-Making our quilt squares for our group painting project
-Listening to the story The Calder Game and working on summarizing and visualizing
-Playing with pentominoes and discovering how to make different shapes with the pieces
-Practicing solving story problems with too little information, too much information, and hidden information
-Developing our own strategies for adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers
-Continuing to work on our simple machine circus toys in Science with Kim
-Continuing to work on our circus diaramas with Carrie in Art
-Making wire art with Isabel and writing sentences in Spanish to describe it

The parent volunteers were life savers this week during our Great Artist project sessions. We couldn't have done it without you!

Highlights from the Week 3/8-3/12

Here's the latest from Room 3 and Room 9:
-Studying our Great Artist, Alexander Calder, and painting our canvases for our small group painting project
-Listening to the story The Calder Game and working on summarizing and visualizing
-Making pentominoes like Calder Pillay in the book The Calder Game
-Practicing solving story problems with too little information, too much information, and hidden information
-Developing our own strategies for adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers
-Presenting our Heritage Quilts at Community Meeting
-Learning about Simple Machines and exploring simple machine problem solving tasks with the Wee Family
-Creating our own simple machine circus toy in Science with Kim
-Creating our circus diaramas with Carrie in Art

Thank you to all the parent volunteers who helped us with Great Artist projects this week!

The Swing by Robert Louis Stevenson

Highlights from the Week 3/1-3/5

Here's the latest from Room 3 and Room 9:
-Studying our Great Artist, Alexander Calder, and doing some of our own artwork based on his style
-Listening to the story The Calder Game and working on summarizing and visualizing
-Enjoying pancakes, pajamas, and reading for Read Across America 2010!
-Practicing solving story problems with too little information, too much information, and hidden information
-Developing our own strategies for adding and subtracting multi-digit numbers
-Finding pictures from countries from our own heritage during Laptop Time
-Exploring fossils in Science