Here are pictures from our Chinese New Year party day. From finishing our dragons, to sharing our dragons during the virtual parade, enjoying our Chinese feast and opening our red envelopes, we had a very fun day wrapping up our Chinese New Year unit and kicking off Lutheran Schools Week!
Week 27 Sentinel
Week 26 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
Roll and record- write a number 3 ways in digit form, place value blocks, and expanded form
Making paper
Dragon puppets in art
Solving the Chinese tangram square puzzle
Using tangrams to solve shape puzzles and comparing different solutions
Historical hero awards as we each learned about a famous African American to celebrate Black History Month. See if you learned about someone new!
Our FINISHED Chinese New Year hallway display of all our art projects
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Week 25 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
creating our ox paper cut
painting our Chinese name scrolls
our finished paper cut new year’s posters
scratch art dragons and new year’s magnets
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Week 24 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
practicing words with the long i sound spelled -y, -ie, -igh, i__e or other!
making our lucky red envelopes for Chinese New Year
Valentine’s Day party fun!
Week 24 Sentinel
Oobleck
To end our Science unit on Matter, we had a blast investigating an unknown substance, Oobleck, and applying everything we learned during the unit!
100th Day Celebration
To celebrate our 100th day of school, we:
dressed as a centenarian, or someone from 100 years ago
became 1 in 100!
made a 1-0-0 digit picture. Can you find all the digits hidden in their creative designs?
challenged ourselves to make 100 in various Math puzzles
made a word map of “centenarian”
practiced reading 100 noun sight words, including seeing if we could read them in 100 seconds (video)
used our 100 noun sight words to play charades with a partner and then pictionary as a class
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Week 22 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
Changing matter experiment: students designed 3 ways to change their playdoh, tested them, and recorded if they were reversible or irreversible. Then they combined their color with another to create an irreversible new color!
How fast can you melt an ice cube? experiment: Students each designed their own method for melting their ice cube using materials at hand. They then carried it out and timed themselves. From desk lamp heat, blow drier, hand sanitizer, to trying to break it down or just hold it in their hand, we all had fun!
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Week 21 pictures
Pictures for this week include:
Soccer goal game to practice long o spelling patterns
Working on our Chinese landscape painting art projects
Building and testing our Lego dams, which we designed to somehow change the flow of water
Week 21 Sentinel
Week 20 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
Science lab to test an object’s flexibility and analyze which materials are flexible
Contraction car crashes with milk cap letters
Our Big Words posters after reading Martin’s Big Words and learning about Martin Luther King Jr.
Week 20 Sentinel
Week 19 pictures
Pictures from this week include:
playing and sledding in the snow
Packing peanut challenge to experience the design process
Working with dimes and pennies to learn about regrouping
Showing off our landform projects
Cracker lab to practice describing matter
Week 19 Sentinel
Week 18 pictures
Merry Christmas! This week our pictures show some of our dress-up day fun, our Christmas projects, families enjoying the Christmas program, and of course, the Christmas party!