Art Show Thanks and a few more photos

Thank you to all students and families who attended the art show! Miss Longton and Miss Snyder did a fantastic job organizing all of the student art projects. It was wonderful to see the students share their work with you!

Poet-Tree from 1st, 2nd, and 3rd Grades

2nd Grade artwork

The year is not over yet... This past week we learned about Andy Warhol and his art styles. I showed the kids a couple of pictures I made in his style, along with some photos on the internet, and then they set to work. Some still need to finish next week!

Miss Foyle's "Andy Warhol" music notes

Miss Foyle's footballs

Finally, you may have seen a recent math project come home in your child's folder. We learned about shape transformations, more specifically, translations, rotations, and reflections.

This visual, along with another activity on Friday helped us remember these big vocabulary terms:

Translation = slide (hexagon with paper clip)
Rotation = turn (pentagon with brad)
Reflection = flip (triangle with tape)

zoo field trip and art project

We lucked out with beautiful weather for our field trip to the Lincoln Park Zoo.

Here are a few photos from the day. If any parent chaperones have pictures to share, please email me (foyleolu@gmail.com), and I will gladly add them to this blog. Thank you!

Posing with the lion statue

the hogs

lots of birds- and some fascinating facts to read

How tall are you compared to a polar bear?

On Friday, we enjoyed some extra time in art to work on a special project for our moms...

We reviewed mixing colors too!

We hope you enjoy your frames with your children's pictures!

Finished product - they came out great!

Happy Mothers' Day!

Fire Fighter Visitor

Our class loves visitors, and we were excited to have a fire fighter (parent of a pre-K student) come to talk with us about fire safety on Monday. He told us three main tips in case of a fire:

1. Get up!

2. Get low!

3. Get out!

He reminded the students about the importance of having a safety plan for getting out, as well as making sure their homes have smoke detectors. He let me try on his fire fighter outfit, and he promised the students that if they all memorize their addresses and phone numbers (another safety issue) and check with their parents about smoke detectors and safety plans, he would come back and let them try on the outfit. How cool! (I will send home a letter about this in Thursday folders this week!)

In other news, we are learning about perpendicular lines in Math. These lines come together to form right angles- see the photos below. Usually they are a horizontal and a vertical line intersecting (or meeting), but they can also be two oblique lines intersecting to form a right angle.

We also made our favorite book titles into cookies as we compared the joy of reading to the joy of following a good recipe. We put all of our key ingredients together for reading success!

Mmm! Cookies and reading!

First Communion photos

First Communion pictures

Click on the link above to see photos from First Communion! Thank you for supporting your children through such an important sacrament in our faith. Please continue to take them to mass each week.

Art and the Art Institute

Unfortunately, this year we were not able to attend the Art Institute of Chicago for a field trip, however, we brought the Art museum to us today with a video (courtesy of the First Grade teacher):

After the video, the students spent some time coloring Vincent Van Gogh's "Starry Night":

They used a template, and I projected the picture up on the Promethean Board.

Here's how they turned out:

Reminder - Permission Slips

Reminder:

Please send in your child's Field Trip permission slip and $3 for the Zoo trip on May 8th.

Thank you!


On another note, the students have really enjoyed watching the "Liberty's Kids" videos to help us learn about the American Revolution. I own the DVDs, but if they want to watch the videos at home, you can find most of the episodes on YouTube.

"The First Fourth of July" (The Declaration of Independence)

First Communion reminders

Reminder: First Communion Meeting Thursday, April 24th 7:15pm

We are working hard, reading about Jesus and his miracles, and preparing our hearts and minds for our special day on Saturday.

While this will be their First Communion, please help your child grow in his/her faith by bringing him/her to church every Sunday to receive Jesus in the Eucharist.