Thursday, January 15, 2009
What I love about the South...
Last week, we had the end of Christmas break. Teachers were back Monday and Tuesday and they were probably two of the most frustrating days I've had lately. Students were back Wednesday, except we had a FLOOD DAY so....no school!! A gift from God, I think!! This week, we were back at it full time. I laughed yesterday when some of the 4th graders asked if we would be out of school Friday due to it being forecast to be "too cold to go to school". (It's supposed to get down to 8 tonight, but high of 30 tomorrow!) And what did I see when I opened my email tonight, but a message saying NO SCHOOL TOMORROW due to severe cold weather forecast. I am not complaining! The gift of time is the best gift I can think of right now, so I will take it. I know my Northern friends & family are laughing, especially when they have been in the -30's for temps! I'll be thinking of you tomorrow...
Sunday, January 4, 2009
Visit to Santa
I finally got the picture of the trip to see Santa scanned and saved in the computer, and thought you all might like to see how our trip went... Camden was acting all tough until she had to sit on his lap. Katie's finally got it down the last few years to where she's not scared anymore. New Year pics will come soon, but as we are taking down all the holiday decorations before school starts again tomorrow, I just wanted to share this one last holiday photo from 2008. Now on to 2009!
Monday, December 29, 2008
Happy Holidays, Everyone!
In case you haven't seen it (but probably all of you have!) here is our Christmas card for this year. It's the girls at Baylor, by the Tennessee River Gorge in the background. I'm working on getting holiday pictures in a slideshow to put on here so you can see all the fun we've had this year. We are so thankful for the time together and the fun we've had. Happy Holidays to you!
Sunday, December 21, 2008
2nd Exhibit Night
Survivor: Ancient Egypt (1st Grade)
Here is what Katie said she liked about being on the Tyet team:
I loved being on the Tyet team because my friends were on this team with me. Survivor was fun. (Which shows that she is a girl, and more important than anything else to her is still her friends!)
Each 1st grader made a sarcophagus that represented themselves. These were life-size and made out of some kind of plywood, I think. They painted them in art class. Katie's label said:
Here is what Katie said she liked about being on the Tyet team:I loved being on the Tyet team because my friends were on this team with me. Survivor was fun. (Which shows that she is a girl, and more important than anything else to her is still her friends!)
Each 1st grader made a sarcophagus that represented themselves. These were life-size and made out of some kind of plywood, I think. They painted them in art class. Katie's label said:
"My sarcophagus represents me. It has gold balls on it. It has lots of red because my favorite color is close to red. My sarcophagus will help me go to the afterlife because it has a beautiful life on it."
And here is her sarcophagus: (Anyone have a good idea of what to do with it when it comes home?)
They also studied the social class structure of ancient Egypt. To demonstrate this, they made drawings of people in the different classes and created this pyramid:
On Exhibit Night, the students came and dressed as an Egyptian (some were mummies, one was a pharoah, some like Katie, were regular Ancient Egyptians)
The class also painted pictures showing what Egyptian life was like. Here are Katie and some of her mummy friends standing in front of it. Katie's part of the painting is in the bottom righthand corner, and she explained that it showed 2 Egyptian people praying to an Egyptian jackal.
Here was another project they did showing Egyptian life:
In this part of the Exhibit, the students brought in a favorite item of theirs to be in their photograph. Here you can also see their Travel Journals:
They studied mummification and the steps involved with it (which, by the way, had Katie scared to go to bed every night this quarter...) and in art made canopic jars. Here's Katie's:
And leading up to their classroom was the Nile River, with quotes from the students about the Nile. Katie's said: The Nile is important to the Ancient Egyptians because every year it flooded, so they built a ditch. When the Nile flooded, the water would go in the ditches so they could have planting land.
And here is Katie's map that she made a few weeks ago...
4th Grade: Going West!
Here is the covered wagon that a grandfather built for us to use in the play. This board had a picture of each student dressed in character and with a statement about why they were going west.
Here is a little collage with some fun pictures from the play: (I don't know why it didn't rotate...)
We also spent a lot of time creating a mural which showed the regions that Lewis and Clark traveled through on their search for the Pacific Ocean. Here, the Plains:
the Rocky Mountains:
and the Columbia River leading to the Ocean...
In science lab, we also built a real (not to scale) sod house....
And here were the backdrops for the play. The students made these (they are 18 feet tall canvasses) and they were hanging on thestage for the play, and we moved them upstairs to our hall and stood on HUGE ladders to staple-gun them to the wall and ceiling...
Are you still reading this? :) If you are, thanks for hanging in there! You won't see another post like this til the next Exhibit Night in March!
And here is her sarcophagus: (Anyone have a good idea of what to do with it when it comes home?)
They also studied the social class structure of ancient Egypt. To demonstrate this, they made drawings of people in the different classes and created this pyramid:
On Exhibit Night, the students came and dressed as an Egyptian (some were mummies, one was a pharoah, some like Katie, were regular Ancient Egyptians)
The class also painted pictures showing what Egyptian life was like. Here are Katie and some of her mummy friends standing in front of it. Katie's part of the painting is in the bottom righthand corner, and she explained that it showed 2 Egyptian people praying to an Egyptian jackal.
Here was another project they did showing Egyptian life:
In this part of the Exhibit, the students brought in a favorite item of theirs to be in their photograph. Here you can also see their Travel Journals:
They studied mummification and the steps involved with it (which, by the way, had Katie scared to go to bed every night this quarter...) and in art made canopic jars. Here's Katie's:
And leading up to their classroom was the Nile River, with quotes from the students about the Nile. Katie's said: The Nile is important to the Ancient Egyptians because every year it flooded, so they built a ditch. When the Nile flooded, the water would go in the ditches so they could have planting land.
And here is Katie's map that she made a few weeks ago...
4th Grade: Going West!If you are still reading this, :) 4th grade was studying westward expansion. We did a play, which was a week before Exhibit Night, but our Exhibit showed everything that was involved with the play:
In writing, we were doing Tall Tales...
Here is the covered wagon that a grandfather built for us to use in the play. This board had a picture of each student dressed in character and with a statement about why they were going west.
Here is a little collage with some fun pictures from the play: (I don't know why it didn't rotate...)
We also spent a lot of time creating a mural which showed the regions that Lewis and Clark traveled through on their search for the Pacific Ocean. Here, the Plains:
the Rocky Mountains:
and the Columbia River leading to the Ocean...
In science lab, we also built a real (not to scale) sod house....
And here were the backdrops for the play. The students made these (they are 18 feet tall canvasses) and they were hanging on thestage for the play, and we moved them upstairs to our hall and stood on HUGE ladders to staple-gun them to the wall and ceiling...
Are you still reading this? :) If you are, thanks for hanging in there! You won't see another post like this til the next Exhibit Night in March!Friday, December 12, 2008
Where Does the Time GO?
OK, this is going to be short. Even shorter than I imagined, because I just checked our November pictures and Thanksgiving is not even downloaded to the computer yet. We had a wonderful Thanksgiving in Atlanta with our friends the Burdens. The friendship was wonderful and relaxing and the food was delicious and plentiful! One day I will add a picture to this. In the meantime, we've been living our busy lives and trying to get ready for Christmas in the meantime! I figured it would be here before I even got anything up for Turkey Day.
We are eagerly anticipating this next week, which means the beginning of Christmas break (after Thursday) and also Exhibit Night...the craziest time of the quarter at our school. Will post pictures next week so you can all see what we've been up to!
May you all enjoy the upcoming days and weeks with family and friends...
We are eagerly anticipating this next week, which means the beginning of Christmas break (after Thursday) and also Exhibit Night...the craziest time of the quarter at our school. Will post pictures next week so you can all see what we've been up to!
May you all enjoy the upcoming days and weeks with family and friends...
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