Theo shared with the class, a book he wrote at home the night before. I like that he is taking what we learn in class, and applying it at home. We all enjoyed your story Theo, especially the rhyming words you used!( just like our Author of the Month!)
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"Painting is poetry that is seen rather than felt, and poetry is painting that is felt rather than seen."
Using the quote by Leonardo da Vinci, we tapped into our own feelings to create pieces of art based off poetry we read. First we studied both abstract and real-life art pieces, and discussed the emotions and thoughts we experienced from different pieces. We explored how colour and shapes can elicit certain feelings and emotions, and how even abstract art can resemble real-life objects. Then we read two pieces of poetry by Shel Silverstein; Colours and The Voice. Students visualized the poem while listening to them being read out loud. They then used coloured pastels to express the emotions felt from the poem. Poet's Tree
Underneath the poet tree Come and rest with awhile with me, And watch the way the word-web weaves Between the shady story leaves. The branches of the poet tree Reach from the mountains to the sea So come and dream, or come and climb- Just don't get hit by falling rhymes. -Shel Silverstein Nothing like playing Rhyming BINGO after reading stories by our Author of the Month, Dr. Seuss! We are getting very good at creating rhyming lists and matching our rhyming sounds.
Students completed an observational report for their science fair. First we used our senses to describe air while we were in the classroom. We concluded that when we are inside, we can not see, hear, taste, feel, or smell air. When we went outside though we could see evidence of air through the wind. We could see the wind moving leaves and trees, we could feel the wind on our skin, we could smell emissions from cars, we could hear rustling leaves on the ground. We did decide that we still could not really taste air though.
We love making words! Students are exploring phonemic awareness with a variety of activities, while they also practice manipulating the letters to build many new words. The students really enjoying trying to use all their letters to make THE BIG WORD.
Centers allow for each individual student to work at the level they feel most comfortable. It allows for every student to gain confidence and progress at the speed that suits him or her.
The grade 1 and 2 students enjoyed playing a new reading game, Sight Word Bean Bag Toss. They enjoyed making the game more challenging physically by moving the start line further back, and challenging their minds by adding increasingly difficult words to the game.
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