Gardening

This month, our classroom has been working on gardening, compost and nature.

We've got two long term projects going; one is a compost pile and the other is our garden. The students have chosen to grow tomatoes and squash.

We've explored soil and seeds, and decided what is safe to compost. Students have predicted that it will take 20 days to make the foods in our compost pile turn to soil.

Today we plated our seedlings in the garden boxes, students are working on signs for the plants now. We plan to measure, record, observe and draw the plants over the course of the summer. We can't wait to pick the vegetables and start making recipes!

See all of the photos from this unit so far here.

BBGC Recognition Dinner

I want to give a very extra special thank you to all of the families who were able to join us for the recognition dinner last night. The students were so excited to receive their medals and be honored for being all around great kids!

I also need to express how extraordinarily proud I am of the student's behavior and responsibility at last night's event.

Here is a link to all of the pictures from the event, you can also find more on the school's Facebook page!

Happy Mother's Day!

Classroom 5A teachers and students would like to wish everyone a Happy Mother's Day this weekend!

Spring into Art

Our class is studying the art of Leonid Afremov, he was born in 1955 in Belarus (found between Russia and Poland).  He works mainly with a palette knife and oils; he paints landscapes, city scenes, seascapes, flowers and portraits. Afremov was influenced by the work of March Chagall, Pablo Picasso, Salvatore Dali, Armedeo Modigliani and the 19^th century French impressionists. 

A link to his artwork can be found here and here. 

Our students have been studying different ways to create art, the different genres of art (Landscape, portrait, still life and genre-painting) and the process an artist goes through to make art.

Our focus book this month, Molly Meets Mona and Friends by Denise Bennett Minnely, was about a young girl who goes to an art museum and interacts with the famous art she sees. She sees work by Claude Monet, Alexander Calder, Vincent Van Gogh, Edgar Degas, Pablo Picasso, Wassily Kandinsky and Lois Maliou Jones. Artists that work with paint, watercolor, stone, wire and dots.

We are now looking into symmetry and how it plays into art. Students have taken small group trips to the museum to work in the art studio.


See all of our photos here!