Postcard Project!

Today we wrapped up the Postcard Project!

All year we have been researching landmarks across the United States.  We used this information for this project.  We pretended to be at one landmark and wrote a postcard to our family telling them what we are doing and seeing.  We also illustrated the front of the postcard.

Everyone worked really hard on this!  It was a challenge to take the perspective of being someplace you have never visited.  They are wonderful!  We will be doing a special project with Ms. Z nexgt week using these final products!

Celebration of Learning Assembly

Yesterday we had a first ever Celebration of Learning assembly!  It was a time for each grade level to tell about what they learned this year.  Each grade level also demonstrated their proposal for the new Brimhall Cheer!  It was lots of fun!

Mrs. Brink and Mr. DePrez welcoming everyone!

Woohoo!

Blaze made an appearance!

Welcome Blaze!

Showing how to be a good listener.

Second grade telling about whey they learned!

Maker Space in the Library!

Today was another chance to do some exploring with technology, creating, taking apart, coding and working together!  We had Maker Space!  It was lots of fun and there was lots of self directed earning going on by everyone!  Ask your child about what he/she did.    Everyone did a great job!

Poems Galore!

This week we learned about how to write two types of poems.  We learned about Haiku poetry and Acrostic Poetry.  Each one is very different than writing a paragraph or story.  Haiku is an arrangement of syllables and words into a prescribed form and is usually about nature.  Acrostic poems are written using the first letter of the topic of the poem.

We had time to write and revise each type of poetry.  Today, we illustrated our poems.  They turned out beautiful in both what was written and the pictures to go with it.

Everyone did a super good job and worked very hard!

Library today!

Today in Library we learned about the Caldecott Medal.  This award is given to books that have excellent illustrations.  Many books have won the gold medal or silver medals over the years.  The silver medals represent the honor books.  Ask your child what he/she remembers about this award.

Ms. Z read us the winner from this year!  It was a biography about a famous artist.

These were the honor books from this year!

These kids sure do love good books and love to read!

Geometry!

Today we started a new math uni on geometry!  It is a favorite topic for me and so far the students seem to like it too!

We did two lessons today all about two dimensional shapes, sides and angles.  We made a chart in our math notebooks to show and name the shapes and record the number of sides, corners and angles.  On top of all that almost everyone finished the journal pages and homework.  

A Beautiful Day!

What a beautiful day today!  We just had to take some time to have our snack break outside!  We celebrated Minnesota's Birthday by being outside!  Be sure to check out Seesaw for a special song we learned!

A trio of books and Antonyms

Today we looked at the second book in a set of three written by the same author and with a similar theme.

Kate Messner wrote all three books.  We read the first one in December and it looked at the world above the snow and the world under the snow.  We talked at length about the subnivean zone.

Today we read the garden themed one.  It was all about the things that we do to prepare and grow a garden and all the animals and insects that are working too!

We also talked about antonyms.  Here is a video that helped us understand what they really are!

Synonym Rolls

Last Friday we started talking about synonyms.  We watched a video, read a book and made a short list of a few examples of synonyms.  Today, we baked Synonym Rolls!  We used a thesaurus to look up a words and at least three synonyms.  It was lots of fun to work together!