Martin Luther King, Jr

We spent most of the month of February celebrating Black History and Martin Luther King, Jr. We wrote biography poems about him, and then created a hand portrait with oil pastels. Our artwork turned out beautiful!

We've been so busy lately... lots going on in room 115! This week we celebrated our 100th day of school! It's hard to believe that we're almost half-way through our school year. Some 100 day activities we have planned throughout the week: counting 100 steps from our door to see where we'll end up, drawing pictures of ourselves at 100 years old, and predicting what we'll be doing with our lives.

Another celebration we're having is Dr. Duess' birthday. We're going to read several different Dr. Seuss books, watch The Cat in The Hat, and make Thing 1s and Thing 2s. It's going to be a busy, but FUN week.

At this time of year, we find that we're running out of supplies. Please check with your child to see if they need anything. (It seems to me mostly glue sticks and watercolors). As far as the classroom supplies, we can use baby wipes and/or Clorox wipes. Thank you!

Artist in Residence

We had the opportunity to work with P.K. - our artist in residence - for a week. She taught us all kinds of movements and forms.

We made letters out of our body shapes:

Then we worked with partners to make more letter shapes:

We worked with our partners to make new formations with high and low shapes, but we also had to fill in the negative space around us. We moved over, under, around, in between...

Then we got into bigger groups and did the same thing:

We also did a lot of moving around! We moved low, high, slow, fast, and sharp.

We really had to get creative! It was a great experience for us. =)