Our Very First Mystery Reader!

During 4th quarter mystery readers will be joining us in the classroom to share a story with the students.  Today we were joined by the grandmother of one of our students.  As I read aloud the clues, many guesses were made.  The class was convinced that it was the 6th grade teacher that would be coming in.  When this nice grandma walked in, her grandson's face absolutely lit up!  Thanks for joining us today Pat!  Please contact me if you are interested in surprising the class as a mystery reader.  My goal is to have at least one mystery reader each week of 4th quarter!

Picture Parade

Our classroom is filled with creative students, and we have been lucky enough to have a very creative parent come to our classroom once a week to teach our students about art through the Picture Parade program.  The students have learned about different types of art and artists.  They have been thinking about and discussing the art that is presented each week.  Most recently the class has been working on creating tightrope walkers.  Using a variety of materials, such as corks, wires, feathers, cups, pipe cleaners, screws, and bolts, the student have had the challenge of constructing a figure that is balanced in way to sit upright on a tightrope that is currently stretched across our classroom.  The students have certainly enjoyed using their hands to create their projects!  Feel free to stop in anytime to check out our tightrope walkers!

Leprechaun Day

The students at Lanesboro get pretty excited when St. Patrick's Day is near, and they go on watch for the Leprechaun.  A few special activities were added into our day to honor St. Patrick's Day.  Our morning meeting game was changed from "Doggy, Doggy Where's Your Bone?"  to "Leprechaun, Leprechaun Where's Your Gold?"  During math we used a Leprechaun's favorite cereal to sort and graph.  We also made a class book about what we would do if we caught a leprechaun.  We were lucky enough to have the leprechaun leave us a package in the office at the end of the day.  The leprechaun knows how much we love to read and brought each student a bookmark and a new Piggie and Elephant book for our class.