Teacher Appreciation Thank You

Thank you to everyone for my lovely gifts. I have four vases of flowers in my room and am overwhelmed by your generosity. The students were so excited to bring all my treats last week. I enjoying being the superstar for the week, and appreciate all of your gifts.

The food that parents made for each day last week was truly amazing. We teachers ate very well for lunch and breakfast. I wish the school lunch was that good!

Walk-a-Thon

Today was our walk-a-Thon. The students had a great time even though it was a yucky day. We were able to eat outside and withstand the wind and sprinkles.

To pattern one of our books...
Fortunately we were second in line to walk.
Unfortunately we missed a turn while on our walk.
Fortunately we still made it back to the finish line.
Unfortunately it started to rain.
Fortunately we made it back inside quickly. And fortunatley we still had fun!

Spelling This Week

This will be our last week for individualized spelling lists. The students picked out their own words this week, and I was pleased with their choices for the most part. Although the ones who chose "Triskaidekaphobia", which is the fear of the number 13, kinda threw me for a loop!

Next week we will only have dictation sentences, and no spelling the last week of school.

Courtyard

We worked really hard on making our courtyard beautiful today. Everyone had a chance to help plant flowers and spread mulch. Thank you to Mrs. Felli who helped as well, and also ran to the store to get more mulch when we ran out. She also donated flowers to the class as well. I hope you take the time to come see our efforts this Thursday on Art and Ed Night.

Thank you to all who gave me such lovely flowers this morning. My room is full of beautiful blooms.

Tessellations

In math we have been studying patterns and artwork. Students have learned how to make their own tessellations. The word 'tessera' in latin means a small stone cube. They were used to make up 'tessellata' - the mosaic pictures forming floors and tilings in Roman buildings. One artist we have learned about who used tessellations in his work was M. C. Escher. Our class is working on basic tessellations beginning with a simple square. The artwork they have created is beautiful.