Arts Walk and Oceans

We shifted our time period briefly to study Georgia O'Keeffe and to create some of the most beautiful art to be seen at Arts Walk!  I took the liberty of snapping some pictures of the art while it was on display...

Ah, and the picnic as well, of course!

Waiting for the Procession to begin!

Following our study of O'Keeffe, we took our last time travel trip through the magical and mystical time machine to the 1950s.  We landed smack dab in the middle of the ocean, aboard the Calypso!  Like Jacques Cousteau, we shall study the ocean and its inhabitants.  In Jen's class we have also been studying various properties of salt water.  Today we looked at buoyancy and saturation, and began a crystal growing experiment.  (I did not get pictures of the actual buoyancy experiment, as I did not really want my phone to get soggy and salty!)

We will be monitoring those salt water jars to see how the crystals grow at different levels of saline saturation, or in some cases, OVER saturation.

In math we have been working on understanding different expressions of the concept of averages.  Nearly everyone now has some understanding of Mean, Median, Mode and Range.  One workshop we did in class was to measure how far each child could blow a pencil, and find those values for each child.  That was fun, if a bit lightheaded.

Other math we have done lately includes learning order of operations.  Some of my favorite mnemonics beyond "Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally" include "Parents Eat More Donuts After School" and others on display on a poster in my classroom.

Can you believe there are only 23 school days left in the year?  So much to do!