Kaleidoscope

 

We started the year of talking about Father Stanley Rother. We discussed his life and how someone becomes a saint.  We also talked about how we are all called to be saints. 

 

 

 

 We have done some mapping skills on Guatemala (Where Father Rother was a priest for 12 years). We have talked about the legend of the Guatemalan worry doll and are in the process of making our own.

Creative Living

We are finishing up our Rosary today. I will have them blessed at mass on Friday.  Father Sean came to our class last week to talk about the history of the rosary. He had some amazing stories about some of the miracles of the rosary.  We are getting ready to start our magazine bowls!

Study Skills

 

Study Skills:

 

Welcome back to school!  In Study Skills we have been studying our vocabulary words together as a class. I am hoping to see an improvement in all of their vocabulary tests!! I have also started reading to the 6th Grade at the end of each class.  My hope is to spark more interest in reading!  We just started  The One and Only Ivan  and they really seem to be enjoying it!

 

In Kaleidoscope we are reading The Trumpet of the Swans  by E. B. White. We have made paper plate swans, done mapping activities about Canada (that is where the story takes place) and talked about eggs and the nest.  We used an egg to talk about Newton's first law of motion. Ask your child to ask you about this awesome experiment!!!!!!!!

 

We hit the pie plate with a sideway swipe and the egg dropped into the water. Newton's law of motion said it would land in the cup of water, and thankfully Newton was right. It worked and I didn't have to clean up raw egg!!!

 

2nd Grade Kaleidoscope

 Today we continued talking about China. We read more about the Great Wall. We learned about the history of the Chinese fan and made a fan of our own!



 

 

Happy Fall!

 

We are now working our Thanksgiving Pumpkins!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

We finished our monsters! They look fabulous!!!! 

Bryce is really concentrating hard to get his needle threaded!

 

Creative Living

 Almost done with our monsters! They have been working so hard!

 

 Creative Living

We have started making our monsters!!!!!!!

 



         Court Jesters

 

 

 

2nd Grade "clowning around" in our Jester unit!

 

 

 We are still talking about the Middle Ages. The 2nd graders learned the history of jesters. We finished watching "The Sword and the Stone" and they made a jester hat for themselves.

 

 

                        King Arthur and the Round Table

 

Today in 3rd grade Kaleidoscope we talked about King Arthur and the Round table. We read the book, Sir Cumference and the First Round Table. We discussed circumference, diameter, and radius. We used the math that we had learned to build our own round table.

  

 

    

 

 

Today in 2nd Grade Kaleidoscope we continued our Middle Ages Unit. We played a math game using medieval dice and did a worksheet on less than, greater than, and equal to. We also did a castle building activity that required them to use a certain number of different shapes. If they finished, they had time to work on their shield of armor that we started on Tuesday.



Welcome Back!!!

Hope everyone had a wonderful and restful summer!

 I am looking forward to seeing all of you!

Life Skills/Finacial Literacy

This week we have been talking about the 20-10 rule. That you shouldn't borrow more than 20% of your yearly net income, and your monthly payments shouldn't exceed 10% of your monthly net income. They are doing worksheets and activities that show how much an item really costs after the interest is paid.

Kaleidoscope

We recently discussed the goddess Athena and her competition with Arachne.  They were both skillful weavers and competed to see who was the best. Athena won and turned the boastful Arachne into a spider. We made a paper weave project with a spider on it to represent Arachne.

Kaleidoscope/Enrichment

 

We are still in our Greek mythology unit. We discussed Prometheus, who created men out of clay. He made these clay models  look like gods, but he put into them bits and pieces of other creatures he had made already-the dog, the fox, the deer-so that this new creature, man, was a mixture of all these things.  The students used clay to create their own perfect creature!

Life Skills/Financial Literacy

 

 

 

 

Life Skills:

We have been discussing interview techniques and resume writing skills. They will be writing their resumes today in class. They will turn them in Tuesday when they have their "job interview". We drew randomly to figure out our rent, car, phone, and utility bills, as well as our income; Some of them did not have the greatest luck and will be living on a very meager income. I tried to reassure them that having a low income DOES NOT hurt your grade whatsoever! Next week we will start on budgeting our money, keeping track of where our money goes, and buying a car!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 



 

 

 

 

Father Kastle blessed our rosaries at Ash Wednesday Mass. The kids were excited to have them blessed, and pleased that it got blessed on Ash Wednesday.

Creative Living

We are done with the monsters! I think they look great! They are out in the hallway if you would like to see them!