Remember, our spelling test is on Thursday this week because we will be going on a field trip on Friday. The spelling words are a little tricky this week, so we've been practicing a lot in class!
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Today we talked about color, one of the elements of art. Students created their own color wheels. We discussed primary colors, secondary colors, warm colors, and cool colors. We also looked at famous paintings and discussed how artists use color to express emotion in their work.
Your little reindeer drew and watercolored reindeer of their own today!
We learned about the mummification process today while pretending to mummify a student.
Yesterday, we made pharaoh headdresses and pyramids.
Today we learned two new position words: right and left!
Today students wrote their name on an Egyptian cartouche using hieroglyphics, the ancient Egyptian system of writing!
Yesterday, students created their own Hanging Gardens of Babylon! If you get the chance, ask your student why the Hanging Gardens of Babylon were created long ago.
Students learned that the Mesopotamians wrote using symbols. This type of writing is called cuneiform. Students wrote in cuneiform on clay tablets last week!
We began our study of Mesopotamia and Ancient Egypt today. Please ask your students about the project they took home this afternoon!
We began our study of shapes and patterns this week. Today, students had a chance to sort shapes by color, size, shape and number of sides.
Please stop by to check out our spooky digraph spiders!
We had 15 students with perfect attendance in August and September! Because of our great attendance, each student in the class got a Smencil at the Student Recognition Assembly. Thank you for having your students at school and on time every day!
Yesterday we continued our discussion of fall and made fall trees!
Happy 1st day of fall!
Today we talked about lines, shapes, and colors during Art!
