News for April 17This week the students worked on their pioneer research projects. They worked in groups to learn more about five different buildings in a pioneer village: school, mill, general store, blacksmith and family home. They created log cabin structure for their buildings and started to plan their research posters.
The children learned how to make a character out of foil. They used this new character to write a story about how to make a "foil guy" from the perspective of the piece of foil.
In math, the students finished off the measurement unit on capacity and mass and were introduced to the new unit on probability.
In music, the class listened to a CD of "Peter and the Wolf" by the Ukrainian composer Sergei Prokofiev. The story is a fairy tale that uses the instruments of the orchestra to represent the characters in the story.
The students learned how to use charcoal (actual burnt willow sticks) to sketch during our studio time. They used their "foil guy" statues to pose for their sketches. Here is a gallery tour:
The students also began their training for "speed stacking". This is a sport popular with school children where they stack and unstack plastic cups as fast as they can. Each student recorded their times to do a "3-stack". To learn more about the sport of cup stacking, visit:
www.speedstacks.com
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