sharing photos! These children did an incredible job.
Students made "Spacebook friends" of the planets in our solar system! Students created a process page and described a separate project we made--a three-dimensional model of the solar system, sewn with conductive thread so that it lights up. The photos show the finished wall hanging--one by day, one by night. Below are photos showing students working through the process, over several months. Thank you to our art teacher Ms. Mary Lou for helping with the projects and
sharing photos! These children did an incredible job.
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I made a batch of bread that failed. Turns out, I had accidentally skipped the first line of the directions, and started with the second instruction. My husband suggested I use this as a learning experience for my students. Good idea! I began by creating a problem for students to answer. Once they'd submitted their answer, I showed them how I'd skipped over "removing the yeast packet from the package." They learned about the importance of yeast! (and following instructions...) We are studying and writing poetry, so I wrote a limerick to share with the students: Today our school marked the birthday of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. with chalk drawings on our blacktop; we were inspired by the Chalk 4 Peace art project and website. Examples are on the slideshow, including one where a student wrote: "Draw hope out of thin air." Students used sand trays, tin foil, and water to make landforms and water features of our state. I put vocabulary words (such as "bay") up on the activboard, and students built the corresponding water or land feature. A big thank you to the helpful parent volunteer who assisted and cleaned sand trays afterwards (and helped when students (accidentally?) created a tsunami).
Over the winter break, a friend treated me to the exhibit "Forbidden City: Imperial Treasures from the Palace Museum," at the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts in Richmond. Above image from the Richmond Times-Dispatch online article. Afterwards, we walked outside and observed a Broad-Winged Hawk (juvenile phase) dining on Sciurus carolinensis (a gray squirrel). *** The "Forbidden City" exhibit featured items from the Ming and Qing dynasties, including imperial robes, crowns, and swords. My favorite moment: a young girl standing in front of the glass case which displayed the Emperor's Winter Crown exclaimed to her mother: "Look, mom! I'm wearing the crown! See how I'm wearing it?" She pointed to her reflection in the glass, where the red sable crown shadow-perched on her head. After that, I had to wait in line again just to bend down and wear the reflected-crown on my head, too . . . Thank you, anonymous young one, for teaching me how to wear the crown! The emperor's winter crown looked like this. I couldn't take an actual photo in the exhibit (it's not allowed), so this is a similar image I found on the internet.
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AuthorMs. McGill is a public school librarian at Stony Point Elementary. She has previously taught all subjects in 4th & 5th grades, and creative nonfiction at UVa's Young Writers Workshop for nine summers. Categories |