Wednesday, March 5, 2014

Water, Weather, and Clouds!

Check out these awesome clouds websites!

http://cloudappreciationsociety.org/gallery/#p=1&i=1

http://www.weatherwizkids.com/weather-clouds.htm

The Week in Photos: February 24-28


In math, we have been learning about probability:

Simon and Daniel play a dice game.

Andrew and Danielle.

Unai celebrates while Queen rolls.

Oliver v. Bente

Then we took what we had learned to design some games:

Andrew and Unai create Pokerush.

Oliver and Queen design their path.

Daniel and Danielle discuss options.

Mr. Riley's class was studying the 5th grade version of the unit!

Ian and his team play their game.



Adrienne and Octavie with their game.


4th grade prepared and reviewed for their test.




And on Friday, we put on our play, Wild or Not! It was written and performed by our class!


Bravo!

Sunday, February 23, 2014

Weekly Update: 21 February

Another busy week!

To finish up our plants unit, students 'discovered' new plants, 
and created seed packets and flowers from their imaginations!

Some of the plants from our experiments are doing quite well!

We performed Pharrell Williams' "Happy" for the closing ceremony.
We've got an excellent group of singers! 

A local school group came and performed traditional Rwandan dance for us.

Watching the performance.

Oliver and Simon learn traditional dance.

A local school group came and taught us some moves!

Bente and Adrienne dancing.

Malcolm and Simon show off their moves!


Monday, February 17, 2014

Arts & Culture Month

We had a week full of arts & culture!

We visited Uburanga Arts:



We learned to Morris Dance:






We did some improv:

We planted our germinated seeds with Ms. Caitlin's class:



We did some print making:

We made found art sculptures:




We sewed puppets:

We learned how to weave traditional Rwandan baskets:


Excited for another busy week!

Friday, February 14, 2014

Queen's Weekly Update: February 14


        This fun week celebrated Arts and Culture Month! WE also sold val-grams for Valentine's Day! We weaved bracelets and danced and made statues! It was a FUN,FUN,FUN WEEK!

Friday, January 24, 2014

Systems of the Body!

The students have been working on their body systems projects and they turned out so well!
Each group completed a poster and a model of their system.

On display in the hallway.

Bente and Unai's muscular system.

Malcolm and Connor's respiratory system.

Oliver and Simon's digestive system.

Queen and Ian's circulatory system.

Andrew and Danielle's nervous system.

Daniel and Adrienne's skeletal system.

I will try and upload the videos of the presentations when the internet is working a little better!