certified wildlife habitat!

We went to the Peabody Woods and found examples of food, water and shelter for wildlife and it is a certified wildlife habitat now!

a fun week!

Check out some photos from our trip to the Frontier Culture Museum!

And a few shots of spirit week -- twin day and movie character day!

International Day and Southwest Indians

International Day was a blast!

We liked making bear tooth necklaces. 

We made shields with emblems that we made up ourselves.

We made flags with 26 stars from Brazil.

We have been studying the Indians from the Southwest like the Anasazi and the Navajo and made sand art.

We also made petroglyphs by carving symbols like the Native Americans did a long time ago.

Stepping!

Today we went to see a step performance,called step Africa. There were hopping, millitary,and groove styles which were all combined to make stepping. You can find stepping at collage serorities and faterneties.

Igluviaks!

We are learning about the Inuits and so we built igluviaks also known as igloos!

potlatch and dear day

Our potlatch for the tlingit Indians was yesterday. 

The cedar tree smelled very good

eating smoked salmon

We each got a penny made of copper becaues Tlingits had copper 

everyone shared information on different things

 we painted masks with juice from berrys

 we made totem poles with different animals for our family members

painted berry Potlatch mask

today was DEAR day and we read all day and in the tent!

We both...

3Y has been "buddying" with their classmates for the past few weeks. Each day the "buddies" have the challenge of finding 5 unusual things they have in common in 5 minutes. Here are some of our favorites:

We've both been to North Carolina
We've both never broken bones
We both like Star Wars
We both have older cousins
We both wear the same size shoes
We've been seen the Statue of Liberty
We've both eaten crepes
We've both been to a UVA football game
We both have cats
We both live near big trees
We both have "Lithuanion ansestors"
We both don't know how to spell "Lithuanion ansestors"
We both like ice cream
We have both been to England
We're both good at Easter egg hunts
We're both good at cheesy jokes
We both ride horses
We both have a younger sibling
We both liked the RPP (Rosa Parks Play)
We both play the recorder
We've both seen a manatee
We've both never petted a manatee
We both have moms that went to UVA
We both do martial arts
We've both been to the Aron Space Museum (air & space museum...)
We both have grandmas who once lived on Long Island
We've both seen a peacock fighting with a chicken
We've both seen the big orangutan asleep at the National Zoo
We both like to collect stuff
We've both been bumper carring
We've both watched a pie-eating contest
We both have dads who have visited San Francisco
We were both born the same week
We both call our granny granny

the bendy bone!!!!!!

we put a bone in vineger for a week to see what will happen when it gets no calcium. a week later we got to feel it. it was really bendy and slimy. -elliot

We made blue bead bracelets like the Shoshone indians used as money.

We had fun seeing the Rosa Parks play at the Paramount!

World Nutella Day!

Today was World Nutella Day! James brought in little cans of Nuttela for the whole class.

It's February

We looked at real cells with the middle schoolers.

We gathered seeds like the Maidu indians.

We used sticks and seeds to make seed beaters like the indians in California did.

We made a model of the human backbone with noodles for the vertebrae and gummys for the cartilage and we got to eat a few gummys.

We used books and figured out all the names for the bones in the skeleton. We played Simon says but with the bones in the body.

McKenzie's mom brought us in a skeleton named Harry. 

And she showed us some x-rays and taught us about bones!

We made a model of the inside of the bone. It has a paper tube and paint, some clay and some fluff, and a Twizzler for the bone marrow.

Some kids made the bone open and some kids made the bone closed like Loick.

Meeting Heming in Hong Kong

Today we talked to Heming online with Skype! 

When we talked to Heming he showed us sea glass and the biggest one was really big, about the size of a cookie cutter. He showed us a card that was called an octopus card! - Sasha

We learned about all the kinds of money in Hong Kong. A ten dollar bill you could see right through it! There was also gold and silver coins that I was able to see. A bunch of people were crowding in to see. But it was fun to see Heming all the way in Hong Kong. We are going to do that much more often. - Cole

The week where everyone was sick and it didn't snow

We played a cool game called Zoombinis  where you solve a bunch of logic puzzles.

We are also making Native american notebooks.

Back to business!

Everybody in our class is doing book club books. The book I'm reading is about a little boy named Walnut who can hear really well and say what's coming. It's Sees Behind Trees. Some people are reading Island of the Blue Dolphins or Kokopelli's Flute and Sign of the Beaver. All of the books are Native American stories.  

We made Cell cities on paper and there were all kinds of things we had to do like the mitochondria which is the power plant and the mayor which is the nucleolus. 

This week we started Monster Projects and that is where you have to make a monster and then describe it the best way you can and have another person try to draw it and see if they were right. We are having to do lots of drafts because it's really hard to describe it!

We made sheets about fractions where we made patterns with pattern blocks and used stencils to trace them. Then we colored them and made the key which said what fraction of the whole thing each shape was. First I divided up the whole things into hexagons because all the other shapes fit in that and then I did the rest from there.