We celebrated our week before Spring Break with a review of our sight word songs, creating bubble maps with our new word family -en, and an afternoon full of our Fun Run prizes! This special celebration included a popsicle party, a movie in class, free iPad time, and an extra recess. So much fun! We hope you enjoy the pictures and videos as much as we enjoyed these special moments together!
Welcome to our Music Around the World Class! I am so very excited that your child is joining me in this journey as we travel around the world exploring different countries and their unique music. I have two loves in life—music and children— so I could not be more thrilled to share this experience together with your child. We are going to learn to play instruments and sing songs from different countries. We will share it all with you each week here on our blog. Thank you again for allowing me the privilege to work with your child. I can not wait to share this experience together!
Wow! What an exciting day we had today at our fifth morning of our Music Around the World Class! Today we learned about our country--America! We focused on how Texans like to put a country twist on American favorites. After reviewing "It's a Small World", "Kye Kye Kule", and "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star, " we were treated to a special guest, Miss Todd's Dad, Mr. Todd. He played his guitar for us and sang, "Sneaky Snake", a song that he and Miss Todd sang together when she was our age. After enjoying Mr. Todd's presentation, we had the opportunity to create string things, harmonicas, and washboards. We used these instruments to accompany our song, "You Are my Sunshine!" You can listen to our rousing rendition in the show we made below. Leave us a comment and let us know what you think about our fun day!
This week in Science we enjoyed reviewing everything we have learned about rocks, soil, and water. We learned the uses of each of these natural resources and studied their characteristics.
While studying about water, we learned that water takes the shape of the container that it is in and that the clarity of water is effected by pollution. We explored water and how we could make it rock, spin, and even shake. We also conducted an experiment with solutions and water, where we learned what items dissolved in water and what items did not. We even created our own volcano using water and other mixtures that when combined created a chemical reaction. Check out our amazing video of this experiment:
Wow! Where do I begin! We had a wonderful time in our Music Around the World class today studying some of the beautiful music that came from Native America. After reviewing "It's a Small World," and "This Little Light of Mine", two of our songs from last week, we had the opportunity to learn about the legend of The Flute Player by listening to an old Apache legend. We learned that the flute is a special instrument to our teacher, Miss Todd, who plays it in a local orchestra. She had brought her flute with her to class today and shared a song with us called "Offetorie". We also learned that the Native Americans used to play a sister instrument of the flute called a panpipe. Their panpipes were made out of reeds that had been cut different lengths and tuned to play various notes. Miss Todd showed us how to play "Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star" on the panpipes. Then, she taught us to play them and showed us how to create our very own panpipes. Here is a video of our lesson from today. We hope that you enjoy it! Leave us a comment and let us know what you think.
https://drive.google.com/file/d/10O6HPdqkTTdxvxsoSwyiOpjahQA2QdQZ/view?usp=share_link
In Social Studies this week we learned about maps and how they use symbols to represent places or locations on a map. We created our own maps of two of our favorite stories using their settings as landmarks for our symbols. Then, we practiced retelling our stories just for you! Check out these awesome pictures from our adventures in maps this week:
