REMINDERS

Hello Parents,

I wanted to let you know of a few reminders for our students…

1. Library is tomorrow so make sure they bring their library books

2. P.E. is tomorrow so make sure they bring proper shoes

3. Shine Backpacks start on October 3rd

4. School Pictures are on October 16th

Thank you and have a wonderful night!!!

Mr. M

SCIENCE EXPERIMENT!!!

Dear Readers,

A bit of a back story with this before you watch the video. We are learning about matter, molecules, solids, liquids and gases…I had a really AWESOME science experiment where it involved dish soap and milk's dislike for each other and how they interact on a molecular level…The students had waited for a llllloooooonnnngggg time to do this because they needed to prove that they could be safe with the materials…So, here it is

Take a Look…

Making Art Come to Life

Today we made art come to life in our classroom...

Above was the art we made come to life and below is the audio recording of our class giving a voice to this art…

Ms. Mykisen

Lets meet our new Counselor at Barnes…

Ms. Mykisen

She was an awesome guest in our classroom.

She also will in and out in our classroom this year to teach us some good tools to use…

Solid, Liquid and Gas

We will be learning this song in our class over the next week and if they want to practice at home they can now…

Van Gogh

We discussed a bit about sunflowers and Van Gogh after our science class yesterday. Here are some of Van Gogh's sunflower paintings…

We will talk about color…

Texture...

and Form...

FUN!!!

I know I have not posted recently but here is what we have been doing:

We read a Native American Story where we learned about how man owned fire…

We used our picture minds to create art that explains each major event of the story…Here is what we have…

My mother dropped by my classroom and she gave our class a pumpkin to celebrate fall…You can guess which season is her favorite!!!

Yesterday we went to our Barnes Community Garden for science time to draw 3 leaves and the sunflower. It was so nice outside that  these sunflowers decided to be very photogenic… Thanks to Waleed's help, he held up some of these sunflowers.

BACK TO SCHOOL NIGHT!!!

Hey Parents,

Don't forget back to school night is tomorrow night!!!

What is Planned?

6:00-6:15 - Principal Welcome & PTB Message in the Gym

6:15-6:20 - Head to Mr. Morantte's classroom

6:20-6:50 - What journey will Mr. M and his classroom friends take this year!!!

6:50-7:10: Meet the Specialists and Instructional Support staff

I CANT WAIT TO MEET THE LOVELY PARENTS TO MY WONDROUS STUDENTS!!!

SEE YOU TOMORROW

Reading Trailer

Good Afternoon Readers,

Below is a book trailer I created a few years ago to get kids excited for reading our October Read Aloud… Take a guess what the book is.

THE DROP ZONE

Good Morning Readers,
Yesterday we had Mrs. Little, a science expert, come in as part of our interactive science curriculum. We were asked to examine, understand and make choices for a parachute!!! Take a Look….

WE HAD SO MUCH FUN!!!

Spelling

Hello Readers,
Yesterday we read a story called Ruby the Copycat and it had some great lessons to learn in there. One overarching theme was being true to ourselves. 

We discussed characters and setting too…

After discussing this, we did a crossword puzzle with our weekly vocabulary words…

This

Went

Jump

Still

Last

Dust

Tell

Drop

Shut

Lamp

Stop

Felt

Drink

Clock

Stand

HAVE A GREAT TUESDAY READERS!!!

WELCOME TO OUR CLASSROOM

Good Morning Readers,
We have had a fun-filled first few days with each of us making a coat of arms, t-shirts that represent us, a guest reader, and making structural buildings out of blocks. Below are some photos from this week… More to come!!!

Below is a photo of who Mr. M is…With twinkly lights!!!

During Read Aloud one of my student were very creative and made a blue fire breathing Godzilla!!! 

We built structural buildings and each had to withstand Mr. M's strong lungs to survive...

Kaillie is working very hard to make the Beaver table groups building very tall. 

Emma is thinking really really hard about making their structure AWESOME!!!

What a brilliant idea to test it out with my lung…Ziyah's structure looks like it is not moving anywhere!!!

Kaillie still making the Beaver's structure tall…