The Magic of Fairy Tales

“If you want your children to be intelligent, read them fairy tales. If you want them to be more intelligent, read them more fairy tales.” 
― Albert Einstein

“Fairy tales are more than true: not because they tell us that dragons exist, but because they tell us that dragons can be beaten.” 
― Neil Gaiman

“In a utilitarian age, of all other times, it is a matter of grave importance that fairy tales should be respected."
― Charles Dickens, Works of Charles Dickens

This month we are diving into fairy tales!  We have been hearing, writing about, reading, and watching different fairy tales.  We are comparing them to understand different literary features that help identify and define fairy tales.  At the end of this learning, we will create our own compilation of fairy tales to show all of you!

To learn more about the Frog Prince, we had helpers from fifth grade help us make origami frogs before we rewrote the story from the point of view of the frog!

ice cream party for bringing our Foundation envelopes!

 We created the witch's house from Hanzel and Gretal...did you know that it was this story that made gingerbread houses popular?  Before this story, there was only gingerbread cookies and gingerbread men.

This week the kids also learned more about coding with "Scratch Kids Hour of Code" while they were in media with Ms. Boyd.  She has done an amazing job helping your children learn more about technology applications in the classroom.

This was just a snapshot of what we have been busy with over the last few weeks!  

Thankful...

Over the past few weeks we have also been learning a bit about the" first" Thanksgiving.  This week we made paper, much like the way people made paper in the time of the Pilgrims (without the glitter of course)

We also thought about the things in our lives we are really thankful for...have a lovely time with your children this Thanksgiving break!

“ I am thankful for my house and not living under a bridge” Alex

“I am thankful for my family and friends.” Quincy

“I am thankful that my parents let me snuggle up in their bed sometimes.” Annabelle

“I am thankful for a very special stuffy because it helps me feel good and for my family.” Brooklynn

“I am truly thankful for my life.” Noni

“I am thankful for my family and that we are having thanksgiving dinner.” Syri

“I am thankful for family and friends.” Peter

“I am thankful for my family.” George

“I am thankful for having a sister at my house so I don’t get lonely.” Gregory

“I am thankful for my parents paying money for a food and home.” Reed

“I am thankful for friends.” Anna

“I am thankful for my parents because they do so much for me.” Hazel

“I am thankful for all of the people in my life.” Eva

“I am thankful for light because it helps me see.” Jack

“I am thankful for trees, food and water.” Sofie

“I am thankful for family, friends, good food and water.” Rory

“I am thankful for my pets.” Monty

“I am thankful for a family that loves me.” Tatum

“I am thankful for a family that loves me and some of the special things I sleep with.” Lila

“I am thankful for Ben Franklin who discovered electricity and I like electricity.” Obi

“ I am thankful for family and friends” Porter

Ant Finale

Hi there everyone! After many busy weeks of reading, writing, drawing, speaking, thinking, researching and calculating about ants.  Here are some of the topics we researched:

Then we got to teach our family and friends:

We had a great time learning more about the wonderful world of ants and were so glad you all could join us to learn more!

Happy Halloween 2018

The excitement in the air in room 13 was evident today... had some Halloween fun as we used candy to think about math.  These graphing activities were followed by using the data from the graph to answer addition, subtraction, and greater than/less than questions.  Hope you had a great night!

And one more picture from home!

Pumpkin field trip

We have a wonderful time enjoying the fresh air and each other's company while we were at the farm.  If you didn't know, we visited this farm in the spring and planted pumpkins in the very field that we picked from on this trip - we hope you enjoy the pictures of our great day.