The Process of Making Our Native American Masks

First we had to get our hair away from our faces with a plastic bag and a head band.  They also placed grease on our faces.  The grease makes the plaster come off easier.

Then the plaster strips were placed in water and then on our faces.

Every part of our face was covered but our nose holes.  We had to sit very still.

We will be painting our masks in the next couple of weeks.

Our Thanksgiving Luncheon

 Our class enjoyed a wonderful lunch with our families.  We had many delicious treats!
We shared our Thanksgiving video and our Buffalo Research.   

Buffalo Research

Please click on the link below to view our buffalo research projects.
Password:  second

http://vimeo.com/31097296

We Love Our New Playground!!!

Nature's Conversation

We are starting our unit on Native Americans. Our class has been learning how nature is important to Native Americans. They believe that everything in nature has its own voice and its own story. The class went on the Rocky Run Nature Trail at our school. We wrote down all the sounds we heard while on the trail. After listing all the sounds we took one sound from everyone in the class and made it into a poem called Nature's Conversation.

Off to a Great Start!

Our class has enjoyed getting to know one another and learning our new routines.

The Rhythm of Ancient Cultures

 

We celebrated our Quest Fest today.  We shared our class poem.   Each of us wore our t-shirts we designed and rice hats.  The class also performed a dragon dance with some of us playing the drums and two of us were rabbits because this is the Year of the Rabbit.

Our t-shirts!



We made t-shirts using Chinese symbols and sketches that represent our inventions from our Chinese research project. They turned out great!



Our Chicken Mummy! By: Will and Sam

Ms. Shellenberger opened the chicken that we are going to mummify. If there were organs inside we would have taken them out and put them in canopic jars.

 


We are measuring our chicken so we can tell how much it shrinks or flattens later.



This is our sheet for recording our measurements.

Mrs. Shellenberger put the chicken in the bag after she dried it really well. Then she added salt also called natron. This will dry it out. The Egyptians did this too so that the bodies would dry out before they rubbed oil and spices onto the body and wrapped the mummy in linen. Then they put it into a sarcophagus.
We then packed the chicken away in a container so it doesn't smell!

We will weigh, measure, and resalt the chicken again weekly.

Lewis Ginter Botanical Gardens

Our field trip in the words of Macy D.



Some of our class at the Conservatory. It was humongous and the flowers smelled terrific!



We were listening to our guide tell us what kind of plants were in this garden.



We got to plant a seed in this garden. It was a radish seed.



Our classmate Kirsten planting a radish with Ms. Angie.



We got to create violet pictures. We were given a violet. We used the darkest petal and folded it in half. We then wrote our name on a white card. It was fun!

Our guide pulled a carrot out of the ground. You wouldn't want to eat this one!



This is Jack pulling out a carrot too. It was a different carrot and it was smaller. You could eat this one!

This is Horsetail. It looked like bamboo but it isn't. Also, if rain falls it will go down into the tube and if you pull it back and let it go water will shoot out!

This is a garden snake. It ate a frog! It was gross!!!

I saw eight turtles on our trip. They were snapping turtles.



It was a fun trip! It was my favorite field trip we have had this year! My favorite part was when I went into the Conservatory. It had a lot of flowers and if you went into some of the rooms mist would come on! The mist was for helping to keep water on the plants. I hope I can come back again!






Happy Saint Patrick's Day!



We celebrated St. Patrick's Day by wearing as much green as we could! What a sea of green!



"With a Poet's Eye"

Our class has been talking about Poetry and how it is all around us.  The children have been using their "Poet's Eye"  to write poetry.  They have decided to write poems about various places in our school.  Some children have written poems about the nurse, P.E., Library, our school fish tank and many more places and things. They wrote the poems, illustrated them and then placed them around our school.


Here are some examples of these great poems: