Spring Beauty and Sound Explorations
/Our classroom was simply vibrating with energy as we continued our sound explorations this week. August's mom, Kerry, is a speech language pathologist who came in to teach us about sounds as they relate to speech. We talked about how different letter sounds are produced in different ways and that all sound is caused by movement. We used technology to record ourselves making different sounds and examined line graphs related to those sounds. Many of our reading groups read scientific texts related to sound. We played a variety of musical instruments and learned how each creates sound. This week we wrapped up our persuasive writing unit. Students chose their own topics for their last persuasive pieces and tomorrow they will be invited to share those writing pieces. They worked hard on editing their own writing and peer writing. In math we learned to play a game called Knock Out that involves composing and decomposing numbers to score points. In our outdoor classroom we discovered that our mason bees have emerged from their cocoons and are creating mud walls for their eggs. These bees have been busy pollinating our gardens too! We discovered that campus is bursting with spring flowers and we took time to appreciate the beauty. Our sandbox was a busy place with engineers constructing a variety of channels, tunnels, islands, and ponds. This week we started a funny new chapter book read aloud called Gooney Bird Greene. Today Ms. Aja, Ms. Stephanie, and Carter played a funny April fools prank involving “brownies”.
