Highlights of the week for Charlie

My highlights of the week were writing thank you scrolls to the volunteers and gym and art.  We had a four day break and I went to Washington, D. C. to visit my cousins.  We went swimming in the swimming pool.  I jumped off their diving board a lot.  My dad taught me how to dive.  Tomorrow we are going to have a celebration and today after school, we are going to have a parent volunteer thank you celebration. 

This morning we saw the 4th and 5th graders play songs in the assembly.  This week I'm going to see my friend whom I haven't seen in two years.

Photos of the Ching Dynasty

Because the Ching Dynasty ended in 1911 after the camera was invented, we have some great archival photos of the later rulers.  We also were able to document some of the beautiful artifacts of fabric and artwork of the time.  One of the ways we learned about life in the Ching Dynasty was through photos like the ones linked below.

https://plus.google.com/u/0/114281498530792406638/photos

Highlights of the week for Isabel

We made fans like the that were in the Ching Dynasty except instead of using silk like they did, we used paper.  We are going to have art today.  Also, on Wednesday we had gym and we played Dodgeball.  On Tuesday, I started my food review and it's going to be a negative food review.  I reviewed the tacos that I had at home.  Also on Wednesday, we had a MAP test.

 

Highlights of the week for Dino

The highlights of my week was talking about "My Father's Dragon", a book about a boy finding a cat and had adventures.  We learned to grow the book talk.  We discussed it in our book club.  I wrote a review about Taiko Drumming; I liked it - Taiko Drumming.  Today, I learned how to make a fan.  We looked at Chinese pictures of Empress Cixi and Emperor Puyi.

Friday Treats

Audrey and Halle shared another adventure of Chip and Nut, fiction that they have been working on all year by themselves.

We also wrote our letters for Mother's Day outside to take advantage of the wonderful, warm sunny day.

Highlights of the week from Aspen

My highlights of the week are I went swimming with my friend Parker.  We made a swimming pool in the back of my dad's truck.  My dad called it his redneck swimming pool.

We are learning about the Ching Dynasty in class.  We learned that Empress Cixi likes power a lot.  She also likes telling people what to do.  She was regent 3 emperors and when the emperors were almost ready to rule, they all died of mysterious circumstances.  She likes to spend money on stuff that she needs and not the country.

We just finished our research dynasty papers. I feel very proud of it.

Highlights of the week from Josiah

The highlight of my week was finishing the sixth Harry Potter and I can't wait until I get the 7th book.  Another highlight of my week was writing my "How to draw animals" piece in writing.  And also, we made these really cool things out of coffee filters in Japanese class.  First you fold it until it turns into a really small triangle, and then you dip it all three corners in paint, and then you unfold it.  We also are having fun in our book club because we are getting really good at keeping the talk going.  We discussed how we could save bees.  

I hope extra recess gets more votes.