Arrrr! Pirate Week in Room 19

We studied the "ar" sound this week.  We became pirates on our ship, The Golden Treasure.  What a week of fun learning and treasure hunts.  

 A word of warning for any visitors to our pirate cove.

 The chart we are filling out this week.

 Reading Corner in the Cove

 X marks the spot where learning occurs.

 On the look out for learning on our ship.

 So much learning in such a little area!

The waters in our cove are friendly but shark might be coming around on Friday.

 The pirates hijacked our word wall.  They only want new pirate vocabulary up on our ship.

 Reading corner on our ship.

 We went on a hunt for "ar" word to write on our treasure map.

 Our chest has had different treasures to earn this week. 

 Even Junie B. Jones joined our crew.

3 of the clues from our first treasure hunt!

 Gold doubloons are great for math intervention!

Decomposing Numbers

 

Our quartermaster dividing up the treasure.

 We created folded and created our own rectangular prism treasure chest.  We are keeping our fluency map in the chest.  If the students can read the words fluently they can walk the plank on Friday!  Watch our for sharks!

 

We went our a "shape walk" treasure hunt.

We found all kinds of shapes in our school.  We are using an app to label our finds.  We will post them soon!

 The jewels are the treasure earned for being able to spell our "ar" word for the week!

Art Week Continuted

A few more pictures from our week of art.

Our main art gallery wall is filled with the work from our week sponsored by Olivia the Pig!

 

Finishing up our 3-D Monet water lily ponds. They are looking really nice!

 Sketch books are great for following step-by-step directions and understanding "How To" writing.

 

Jackson Pollack was an artist in our textbook story so we visited a website and created some of our own abstract artwork. The students wrote about their pieces and they are hanging up in our gallery at this time.

Here is the link to paint...

http://manetas.com/pollock/

 We learned that Wassily Kandinsky used lines, shapes, and colors to create his abstract art.  We copied one of his famous pieces using oil pastels and circles.

 Of course we had do express ourselves with a bit more music and the class loved this song.  We are thinking about doing it for the school talent show.

Mr. Jones came in and taught us about 2 other famous artists from history.

This was about Michelangelo and the church he painted called the Sistine Chapel.

He also taught us about Salvador Dali.

 

We learned that math and art are connected.

We used lines, shapes, space, numbers, and forms to create some math dragons.

We were very busy expanding our art vocabulary this week.
We were so glad Olivia took us on an art adventure!

We got to enjoy the second graders expressing themselves through the art of music in the show called "Seussical."

We make more connections with art and math when we learned about Piet Mondrian.
 He loved to use primary colors and math shapes.