Dear Barn Swallow Families,
Last week, students worked on adding interesting details to their stories and began working on illustrations for their published writing pieces. Students learned about four ferns; sword, deer, licorice, and maidenhair. They created ferns for our classroom forest mural using their painted paper. The ferns look realistic, tucked together in our forest scene on the wall! The forest mural serves as a way for us to collect ideas for enhancing the habitat of the school forest. Ask your child which ferns she or he worked on. We also investigated the frost in the Sunflower Garden one chilly morning by looking at it under magnifying jeweler's loupes. Ask your child what he or she saw! We ended the week with an All School Meeting on Friday. Ms. Vanessa and Ms. Karen Torry were the substitute teachers for me while I was away with Ms. Karen Thias at a Story Workshop class at the Opal charter school. Both substitutes reported that the class did a great job!
This Thursday the Barn Swallows will be making vegetable soup! We will be donating half of the soup to the severe weather shelter at the UCC. Students are interested in churning butter after reading about how Ma', Mary, and Laura do it in our read aloud, 'Little House in the Big Woods'. (Ask your child how Ma' dyed the white winter milk!) We are hoping to make bread and butter in class on Friday. Thank you to families who have donated vegetables, broth, and grains!
Sincerely,
Ms. Sherry
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