We had a great time at Rose Hill Manor today. The children learned what it was like to live long ago. They especially enjoyed playing with the toys from long ago. We visited the manor house where we played in the parlor and learned about who lived at Rose Hill. We also visited a bedroom and the kids' room and playroom. There was a room where the children learned about how fabric was made and even got to try out carding that we learned about when we read Charlie Needs a Cloak. We visited the kitchen in the manor house and enjoyed popcorn made over the open fire as well as mint tea from the Rose Hill garden behind the manor house. We went to the log cabin that is also on the property. A family of nine lived in the cabin. We also visited the blacksmith shop and an ice house. Ask me to tell you about my trip!
The docents at Rose Hill Manor were so impressed by the kindergarten classes from Bells Mill. The children were very well-behaved and actively listening and answering questions. They were so respectful of the toys they were allowed to play with and so gentle in playing the old piano. Thanks to our the parents who went on the trip with us! Have a nice evening! Juliet
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Today we read "Charlie Needs a Cloak" by Tomie DePaola. We used Word Bird Strategies to find out what unknown words meant. In this book, most of the words that students did not know the meaning of were words associated with making cloth. In this book, Charlie is a shepherd whose sheep nibble on his cloak. The book shows the process Charlie goes through during fall and winter to make a new, red cloak. Ask me to tell you what a cloak is and what Charlie does to make a new cloak.
We studied pictures to see the tools Charlie would use in making cloth. We will see these things tomorrow on our field trip, and may even get to card some wool. Please be sure your child is dressed for the weather tomorrow. It looks like we have a stormy night ahead of us, as well the possibility of showers tomorrow. We will be indoors most of the trip, but will be walking between buildings, so children will need to be prepared for wet grass and rain. Please don't forget your child needs a bag lunch. We will not bring anything back with us so anything not eaten will be thrown away. Juliet Today we worked more with a Thinking and Academic Success Skill we are working with this marking period. We learned more about being original in our thinking. We focused on turning the ideas of others into something new and different. To understand this better, I showed the children a short video clip of The Dying Swan, from Carnival of the Animals by Saint-Saens. We watched a traditional version of the ballet first, then compared it to another version by Yo Yo Ma and Lil Buck. Here are the two videos. Ask me to tell you what I notice that is the same and how they are different. Today we also read two more Cinderella stories. We read Cindy Ellen: A Wild Western Cinderella, by Susan Lowell, and then later The Salmon Princess; An Alaska Cinderella Story, by Mindy Dwyer. You can imagine how excited we were to find that the fairy godmother in The Salmon Princess was an eagle! Ask me to tell you about how the setting and characters made the story original, even though it is based on the fairy tale Cinderella. In the computer lab, and in math today, we worked with graphing. We collected data to find which version of the Cinderella stories we liked most. The versions we voted on are just the ones we watched a clip of or read the book. We have 23 Cinderella books so this could change! Here is our graph. Ask me to tell you what our graph shows. We made storyboards of how we would present the story of Cinderella in an original way. Many of the children relied on using characters they were familiar with already to start their storyboard. Some chose the setting first, which led to the characters they would put in their book. They also thought about what magic would be in the story, as well as what the ball would be like in their version.
Have a nice evening! Juliet |