Last week we began our paint study! The students began with sharing experiences they've had with paint. (I told the story about my cat Duster painting 'works of art' when he was in the Humane Society for a fundraiser. Yes, this is true! He, apparently, enjoyed the sparkly gold paint the best.) Students made paintings and wrote stories about their memorable paint experiences. Thursday was exciting, as we began experimenting with various materials (brainstormed by the students on Wednesday) to try to make paint. Thank you for sending in such interesting ingredients for our experimentation! We have some paint-like samples and are looking forward to experimenting some more. As Ulee said, if we gave up and didn't make any more, we wouldn't be able to build stamina with making paint! In math, first graders worked on subtraction as they acted out hungry shark story problems. They played variations on the "Who Has More Cents," game, making trades for various coin amounts. Second graders continued to focus on new addition equations. They started to make up their own wetland story problems based on their new equations, continued to work with fact families, and reviewed regrouping.
We are in need of baby food jars for some upcoming projects. If you have some that you are willing to donate, please send them to school with your child by Thursday. We also are in need of borrowing a popcorn popper. While reading Farmer Boy, we were inspired to make some popcorn, which seems like a great activity for Friday. If you would like to donate popcorn or a stick of real butter (or heavy whipping cream, and we will make our own butter) we would appreciate it very much. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Sherry
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