Earlier in the year we made “molas” in art class with our fantastic art teacher, Ms. Conway. * Molas are a type of applique art made by the Kuna Indians of the San Blas Islands in Panama. Applique art is when you put layers of material on top of one another to make a design [...]

We are starting to learn about multiplication in math. Multiplication is really just a faster way to add together equal groups of things. Here’s an example from Sean: Here are 5 helicopters. Each helicopter has 6 blades. Because each helicopter has an equal number of propeller blades, we can say that this is 5 groups of 6. You [...]

This past Tuesday we had a very special assembly. A group of travelling university students from South Africa came to our school to share some of the songs, dance, music, and culture of their country. * Their country is a long way away from Connecticut! Here is a video showing one of the songs they [...]

We have a fantastic art teacher named Ms. May! Everybody loves going to art because we always do fun things and learn new techniques. We collected some of our artwork from the second half of the year and picked one piece each to put in a “virtual art show” in the slideshow below. We hope you like viewing [...]

We are starting to learn about multiplication in math. Multiplication is really just a faster way to add together equal groups of things. Here’s an example from Jennifer: Here are 7 Pikachus. Each Pikachu has 3 bowls of food. Because each Pikachu (a type of Pokemon) has an equal number of bowls, we can say that [...]

We have been working on adding details to our writing so the reader can visualize our stories. Before Halloween, we wrote descriptions of strange creatures and bizarre beasts from our imaginations. Then we worked on them to add elaborative details and a variety of sentence starters. After that we illustrated our descriptions. Mr. Avery’s class in Massachusetts was [...]

(This is a student post written by Alexandra, Amanda, and Maggie) On May 18th the third and fourth graders at our school had their first art show! Everyone got to enter two pieces of artwork. The show was held in the cafeteria by our art teacher Ms. May. She held it to show everyone’s creative [...]

This is a student post written by Alison I started to play the piano when I was six. Before I took lessons, I taught myself how to play scales and other things. My older sister, who already took piano lessons, helped me learn the notes and key signatures. I have been playing for two years. [...]

A few weeks ago we posted a sneak peak at a project that we have been working on in class. We received a lot of comments with great guesses about what the project might be. In fact, several people guessed correctly because we were indeed making a… This is part of a project that we [...]

We are starting to learn about multiplication in math. Multiplication is really just a faster way to add together equal groups of things. Here’s an example from Alison: Here are 7 ladybugs. Each ladybug has 4 spots. Because each ladybug has an equal number of spots, we can say that this is 7 groups of [...]