PK/K – This week in music classes we continued to work on learning our songs for our virtual spring concert. We worked on the second verse of our song “Dip and Sway” and continued working on the Chorus for our song “One Small Voice”. We did such a good job humming inside that we went outside at the end of class so that we could sing “Dip and Sway” out loud!

1/2 – This week in music classes we continued to work on learning our songs for our virtual spring concert. We started working on learning the second verse for our song “Dip and Sway” and started working on the first verse and chorus for our song “One Small Voice”. We did such a good job humming inside that we went outside at the end of class so that we could sing “Dip and Sway” out loud!

3/4 – This week in music classes we handed out Ukuleles and talked about how we would be playing the ukulele while we sing our song “Don’t Forget to Sing” for our spring virtual concert. Each student got assigned their own ukulele to use at school and they were able to explore the instruments for the last few minutes of class. We are very excited to start playing.

5/6 – This week we talked about how for the next few weeks we will be splitting our time in class between working on our media project to finish learning about the music of the holocaust. For this project, students will be choosing a poem from the ones that I posted in their google classroom. They will then create music whether they use an instrument like piano or guitar and record themselves playing or create music on garage band. They need to have at least 16 bars or one minute of music, enough to cover their whole poem. Then they will choose images that match the theme and tone of their poem and they will create videos using iMovie. The other half of class we will be working on a show choir show of Choral Highlights from the movie The Greatest Showman!

7/8 – This week we started class by working on our music for The Greatest Showman! We split students up into the part they would be singing in the music and worked on the first song in the medley. Then we continued working on our holocaust music projects.

PreK-K

Pre-K and Kindergarten naturalists celebrated the arrival of spring with a “signs of spring” hike to discover mud, buds, and even some stray snowbanks and ice that haven’t melted yet. We loved finding and observing salamanders in the fall and are looking forward to seeing our slimy little friends again this spring.

Pre-K Mathematicians are exploring measurable attributes of various objects in terms of length, weight, and capacity. After reading Inch by Inch by Leo Lionni, students compared the lengths of various objects to the length of their yarn “inchworms” and used longer than, shorter than, and about the same as statements.

3/4 ELA: This week the 3/4 class worked on finding the main idea  and supporting details of a nonfiction piece.  They will continue with that this week, with the ultimate goal of writing a short essay on a nonfiction piece.  We are using the book: Iroquois : Six Nation Confederacy.  We are continuing to learn about Native American groups, longhouses, and unity.  Did you know a longhouse could be 400 feet long???

3/4 Super Studies

3rd-grade math – This week the students looked at the distributive and associative property of multiplication with larger math facts.

Calendar

April

4/2                                                       Coffee Social via Zoom

4/15                                                     Town Public Hearing and Information Night  at 6 PM in school gym

4/17                                                     PTF Compost/Garden Fundraiser

4/19—4/23                                          April Vacation

May

5/7                                                       Coffee Social via Zoom

5/15                                                     Town Meeting at 9AM in school gym