2009!!!!!!

This year we have many great ideas of what we want to do. We will be doing our 2nd annual art show, we will do another play this year, and we are learning about writing letters!!! We will be starting our Flat Stanley project soon!!!

So far we have made mailboxes to get notes from our friends, we learned about popcorn, we have created bio-poem people, and we are using our whisper phones to help us read!!!

We are doing the Bully Blocker program this year. Our 6th graders have just started the N.O.V.A. program. We have learned about the phases of the moon and we did good on our test.

We are going to start learning about Europe and the artist Paul Klee and his style of art. Throughout the year we will discuss all of the continents and the different styles of art that come from each continent.

With our buddies we built structures using marshmallows,spaghetti,gumdrops, and toothpicks! We wanted to see who could build the biggest, the strongest, or the most interesting. Check them out!

Pop art!!

We are currently working on pop art from the 60's and we have been discussing Rauschenberg. In his art he created collages about things that were happening at the time. The students made collages about themselves and things that are happening currently. We also created hamburger collages. They had to choose things on a hamburger and place them where they wanted. It really showed their personalities as to organizational skills!! Here are some pictures of the students' Rauschenbergs!!

It has been awhile and we have been very busy. We are in the process of loading our Worm movie onto the computer and then the blog. We are now reading Candy Shop War and we will be posting activities we are doing with the book.
The 6th graders had their dance. They had a good time!!!

We ate our worm pudding! Some students were hesitant at first, not sure if they were real or not!!! It was great fun!

Still talking about worms!!

We have been practicing our worm play, and if all goes well we will have it set to music using garage band. The kids will pick the genre of music and will say their lines to it. Wish us luck!

Worms!!

We practiced our worm play today! We learned about worms and how they move. They don't like light. Worms have 5 hearts.
They do not have teeth. There are over 2,000 kinds of worms. South Africa had a worm that was 22 feet long!

For Veteran's day Mrs. Allen's husband came and talked to the students about Iraq and showed pictures about things there. The students were very interested! It was great for them to get to ask questions about the military and Iraq.

We are reading How to Eat Fried Worms, and we are writing our own worm stories. This is one of the students writing his story about his worm!

We have learned about Piet Mondrian this year. Mrs. Cushing

Today we took a cummulative spelling test and we all did o.k.. We are talking about the presidential election. We have also started reading the book How to Eat Fried Worms by Thomas Rockwell. Josh thinks it is a fun book. Hope likes the worms. Isaiah thinks it is a funny book. Dimitrius thinks the way they cook the worm is interesting. Look at our pictures with our worms.

ART!!

We are beginning to study artist and musical artist from all eras of time! I would love any ideas on people or styles from the 1800's to the present. Also if you have any artwork from these times I could borrow, that would be great! The students are enjoying it!!

Hello from Mrs. Cushing!!

Today we had short day.  We started our music and art walk learning about different music and artists from the 1800's.  We were very excited to learn about how music makes us feel.