5/307 students help their buddies sketch and write about books.

Buddies with Ms. Diana's kindergarten.

Buddy time with k-201 and Ms. Diana.

5-307 celebrated their marble reward in the park today!

Standing on the summit of the park.

Jason tires from our marble reward recess.

Spinning on the spinning circle...

Spinning at the park...

Playing on the polyhedron.

We've Updated Our Calendar!

Check out all of the upcoming activties in 307:

10/28 - Marble Reward in Prospect Park
11/1 - Family Friday
11/4 - Picture Day
11/5 - Election Day (No school for students)
11/7 - Book Fair Begins
11/11 - Veteran's Day - No School
11/14 - Parent Teacher Conferences
11/18 - Trip to 826NYC
11/19 - Trip to City Hall in Manhattan
11/28 - 11/29 - Thanksgiving Recess - No School

Our first Armory trip of the school year!

Lilybeth poses at the Armory.

Yoga poses at the Armory.

The Quilt by Brian B.

THE QUILT BY BRIAN

Kate taught us about how her grandma made quilts with dresses that became worn out and old. Kate’s grandma was also George Washington’s wife in a play about George Washington. The same dress she used for the play she used for her wedding. When you could order blankets from catalog’s came she threw out all the blankets that she made.

 One day when Kate’s grandma passed away Kate and her sister went through their grandma’s house looking for photos and more they found a quilt that her grandma made. The quilt looked like stitched in hexagon shapes that looked like flowers. The colors were bright, like blue, red, yellow, orange, pink and green. Kate looked up the blanket on Google images and found the same blanket it was popular in the 1920s. This quilt was amazing.

Umbrella Theory Collages by Alyssa

During reading workshop, the class has been making umbrella theory collages.  An umbrella theory collage is when classmates partner up and make a theory with evidence that supports your theory.  These collages are based on the Patricia Polacco stories Just Plain Fancy and The Butterfly.  The evidence isn’t always writing – some of it can be pictures that symbolize something that is important in the story.

For The Butterfly, you can draw tall boots to symbolize the Nazis.  You can use character actions, character quotes, character internal thinking, interactions between characters and settings as evidence.  Every piece of evidence needs analysis.  Analysis is showing why the evidence supports your theory.

My group and I (Alyssa, John, Vanessa and Lilybeth) are making a collage about The Butterfly.  Our theory is “If bad things are happening, stay strong because good things will come out of it.” We talked about how Sevrine stayed strong and her problem walked away. We did these collages because the teachers wanted us to get into the characters’ shoes.