Ms. Brown's Blog: October 21, 2022

Hello Families,

We had an amazing walking field trip on Monday which kicked off our learning about poetry through descriptions and explorations with leaves. We did some journalling and some playing in the leaves and came back to the school to start working on our poems. We will share the good copies of this work with our school community through a hallway documentation board.

Here are some of the descriptions we came up with while on the field trip:

The leaf swished through the sky like a sword - AP

It swirled around like a lollipop - VJ

It swirled down like the shape of a candy cane - SL

It fell like a raindrop from the sky - L

The leaf fell like a floating wave - LB

The leaf swirled in the air like a cotton candy maker - IG

Gently drifted like a feather - SD

Drifting like the wind on a calm day - FO

Falling softly like a feather - SH

It flew through the sky like an airplane - BS

It swayed side to side to the ground like a swing - HC

It gracefully fell danced like a ballerina - MM

The leaf fell like a piece of light parchment paper - A

It swiftly fell to the ground like an airplane landing - RM

The leaf fluttered to the ground like a feather - BY

The leaf fell swiftly like paper - MP

It falls gracefully and swiftly like a hawk soaring through the vast open sky - AF

We are still learning about place value and have added in data collection. This week we were learning about rounding to the nearest ten. This was tricky for many students and might be worth a review over the weekend. We also looked at our individual and shared celebrations and traditions, this will connect to learning about India as Diwali is taking place on Monday. We collected data about what our class celebrates through surveying and tallying and then represented this data in bar graphs.

The art cards are turning out beautifully, I think you'll be very impressed with the finished products!

Please remember we go outside for our phys ed time daily so please ensure students are dressed for the weather. Also, as we have been learning about various plants we are accepting pumpkin donations to our classroom for an exploration on October 31. If you have a pumpkin of any size (uncut/unused) that you would like to provide for our classroom please send it with your child any day next week. We are also looking for duct tape for our classroom Wishtree (See the current construction below)! :) Thanks SO much for all of your help and support!