"You Belong with Me"

This week's sharing was your favorite song. The students brought in a variety of songs, and a few even chose to sing them independently without music! Another friend played us a song on a guitar! This morning a student brought in an I-touch and played her favorite song, "You Belong with Me" by Taylor Swift, to the class. They all started singing along! I captured a bit of their singing just in time...

George Portraits

6D completed their George Washington portraits- didn't they do a terrific job? (See the below shutterfly album.)
After drawing the portraits the students learned how to shade different regions of their picture using crayon. The darker shaded regions are in brown, the light regions in peach. The students then cut out their portraits, glued them onto blue paper, added a black jacket, doiley (to illustrate his ruffles) and cotton balls for the hair.
I want to frame each one!

Completed George Washington Portraits

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Dr. Greg Mortenson

Today in class, we listened to this book

and learned about Dr. Greg Mortenson.

High in the Pakistan mountains, Dr. Greg's story as an activist begins after a long and arduous climbing expedition. Upon losing his traveling companions, he grew weary and tired and accidentally stumbled upon a small village named Korphe. The villagers warmly welcomed Dr. Greg and nursed him back to health. In thanksgiving, Dr. Greg wanted to thank the village for their kindness. He came back to the United States to gather money and support. When he returned, he worked with the villagers to build a bridge and a school.

The 6D students decided to add Dr. Greg Mortenson to our activist wall because he found a need to help others. By building a school and a bridge in Korphe, students now have a place to learn. Dr. Greg is also continuing to raise awareness about education throughout the world.

Today Dr. Woodworth visited 6D and 6B! He is a brain doctor at Johns Hopkins.
Dr. Woodworth brought in models of the brain,


read us a story about a "brain in the rain,"

and shared brain candy with us (it was a delicious treat)!

Thank you, Dr. Woodworth- we enjoyed this time together!

Magic E

Today we watched the magic E videos on my long vowel post (from last week). The students really enjoyed watching them. We brainstormed a list of short vowel words that, when silent e is added at the end, change to long vowel words. We each chose a short vowel word (and it's silent e counterpart) and sang the change- watch the below video to see us hard at work!

Upper and Lowercase H!

Our handwriting letters of the week are Hh and Rr. We practiced forming the letters with our bodies. The first picture is uppercase (can you see the "bridge" in the middle?) and the second is the lowercase (notice the round hill for lowercase h).

Later this week we will review these letter formations using playdough.

(PS. Could you tell we were tired when these photos were taken?)