OAA Spirit Week

Today we wore our wild and wackiest clothes to celebrate our 3rd, 4th, and 5th graders taking the OAA test next week.  Tomorrow is wear your fanciest outfit and Friday is dress like a rock star.

Scholastic Book Fair

Our class will be going to the book fair tomorrow.  Please make sure to bring your money and list of books you would like to purchase.

The Cincinnati Zoo Visits

Mike Nicolai from the Cincinnati Zoo visited our classroom last Friday to present two animals' life history, habitats, and behaviors.  He brought a cave dwelling rat snake from Thailand named Pandolin.  He also brought a northern white faced owl from Africa named Goblin.  We learned so many new and interesting facts about both animals.  We even got to gently pet the snake and owl.  Thanks Cincinnati Zoo for visiting Amelia Elementary!  We had a wonderful time learning about Pandolin and Goblin.

                                                       Mr. Nicolai and Pandolin.

              Mr. Nicolai teaching us about Goblin.  We were surprised how soft his feathers were!

Art with Mrs. Kern

Mrs. Debi Kern is a retired Amelia Elementary art teacher.  Our PTA sponsored a special art class for each class this month.  Mrs. Kern introduced us to several famous artists including Leonardo DeVinci, Vincent Van Gogh, Claude Monet, Michelangelo, and Pablo Picasso.  She showed us pictures of each artist and examples of their work. 

The lesson focus was on famous artist named Pablo Picasso.  He created "Cubism" which was a new way of doing art.  Mrs. Kern showed us one of his most famous paintings called The Three Musicians.

Pablo Picasso

The Three Musicians

Our Portraits using Cubism

Dr. Seuss

We have been busy learning about Dr. Seuss!  Do you know his real name was not Dr. Seuss and he was never a real doctor?  He was born Theodor Seuss Geisel in 1904.  This is just one of the many interesting facts we learned about Dr. Seuss.  We started the month making Shh!  I'm Reading! door knob signs on hats.  We watched a video of Justin Beiber reading The Cat in the Hat.

The second day we watched a video of NFL quarterback Tim Tebow reading Green Eggs and Ham.  We then wrote how to make green eggs and ham using first, next, then, and last.

We read The Lorax and made pictures with messages about taking care of our environment.

We brought in our Dr. Seuss books from home to share with our friends.  We had a great time reading and learning about Dr. Seuss!

February

It's hard to believe February is over already!  Here are some of the activities we did.




February Events

We made predictions about Groundhog Day.  More students believed Phil would not see his shadow.

We made predictions about Super Bowl XLVII.

We learned how Rosa Parks fought for our civil rights by refusing to give up her seat on the bus.  We read several books about her life and watched a video on Brainpop Jr.  We made buses to show the main idea and supporting details of her brave actions.

Peanut Experiment

We used our senses to describe how peanuts smell, look, taste, and feel.  We documented our observations and then enjoyed a peanut snack!  That week we also wrote a "how to" for making a peanut butter and jelly sandwich.  We had to use the words first, next, then, and last to write each step.  Our PBJ books were displayed in the classroom.

 

PBJ Books