Around the Room

This past week we finished up our Mexico unit projects with a Oaxacan woodcarving project. Students actually used Model Magic to create a Mexican rainforest animals using the painting techniques similar to the Mexican folk art. We also wrote codices in the style much like that of the ancient Mayan people using pictures, stamps, to tell a story. We made connections to a past Native American project thinking about pictographs. New Station activities were also added last week including a new Reader app, Endless Reader in our Lily Pad Station, A Compound Word activity to create and sort in the pocket chart and letter beads to build sight words in our New Fine Motor Station. In our Math Stations, we added a game called cover half. We practiced rolling a die, and developing a strategy to beat our opponent and cover half the board first. Oh… and we also had a guest reader, Sasha's mom who read Snowy Day, a preview into our upcoming unit, Winter. We will begin our Winter unit this week!

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Happy Birthday to Luke and Bittania!

The Mighty Buckeyes celebrated two birthdays last Friday. Happy belated birthday to Bittania & Luke!

Our Star of the Week….Aubree

Our Star of the Week is Aubree. Aubree did a great job sharing her pictures and answering questions from her classmates and teachers. Did you know that Aubree loves to swim, dance and play with her American Girl dolls? Aubree also shared that she likes to play soccer and eat ice cream. We enjoyed listening to Aubree and learning more about her. Great job!

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Choco Choco Chocolate

Today we talked more about the Aztecs! We learned more about the cacao bean that was not only used to make a spicy chocolate drink similar to to day's hot chocolate, but was used as a form of currency among the ancient people of Tenochititlan, the Aztec city built in what is known today as Mexico City. Students learned the 'Chocolate' dance and tasted homeade Mexican hot chocolate too! We are hoping to share this during assembly this week. I will try to get better video.

Our Star of the Week…Scott

Scott is our Star of the Week! Did you know that Scott loves baseball, playing it and going to watch games. Scott also has a large family with many cousins. He did a great job sharing all his pictures and tales of adventure with his big brother, Justin, Mom and Dad. 

Aztec Sunstones

Students will continue working on their own sunstones that will incorporate the Aztec calendar and the art of weaving. Stay tuned to see these projects when they are finished.

Tomorrow we will have a Pep Rally with our Senior Buddies. Don't forget to wear Spirit Wear from the waist up!!

Today our Fourth grade buddies helped us to make maracas to connect with our Mexico unit. It was so much fun and a lot of noise!

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