Our Butterfly Quilt

In our ongoing attempt to learn and explore with patterns and shapes, we created another beautiful quilt! Each child made two quilt squares, a butterfly square and a patchwork square, and placed his or her squares on our quilt. This is the finished product, which is proudly hanging in the hallway outside our classroom. Stop by and take a look if you can!

Here are some of our observations about this quilt:

Danica: "It goes patchwork, butterfly."

Pat: "I noticed it’s still like a pattern. There’s still yellow and blue on the butterflies."

 

Rosie: "I noticed those colors [yellow and yellow] look the same."

 

Sophie: "It’s a pattern. Butterflies and patchwork."

 

Alex: "It’s going patchwork, butterfly, patchwork, butterfly."

 

Anna: "It’s going diagonal and it keeps on going smaller and smaller."

Blake: "It’s diagonal and then I see a straight line."

Kate: "The patchwork is going all the way down the diagonal down the middle both ways."

Charlie: "I noticed 7 going down on both sides."

 

Alaina: "I noticed 7 in each row."

 

Sage: "The patchwork squares go in a diagonal."

 

Mia: "I notice the pattern stops at 7."

 

Ben: "The pattern goes down and up."

 

Vivian: "It’s a pattern. Patchwork, butterfly."

Jora: "Some have eyes and some don’t."

 

Kaleb: "It’s a pattern because it keeps going and going."

 

Autumn: "There’s yellow and the butterflies are yellow."

 

Evie: "I noticed they’re going in a diagonal [patchwork pieces]."

 

 

 

 

 

Mock Election

Today, we talked about what an important day it is for our country. We discussed what the job is of the President of the United States and it was very clear that you all have been talking about this at home. Some quotes from this discussion:

"It's the president's job to make everything fair." 

"The president makes taxes so we can go to school."

"He signs a lot of papers and puts them in envelopes."

We read a book called Arthur Meets the President and talked about the candidates who were running for office. We learned some facts about each candidate and then talked about the voting process and how we, as Americans, all get to form our own opinions and make our own decisions about who we want to vote for. There was a mock election organized by some middle school students and we were invited to attend. It was all very official and the kids were thrilled to be able to participate.

Autumn has her name checked off the "voter registration list."

We voted for President and Governor.

Filling out our ballots

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sage puts her ballot in the ballot box.

Danica turns in her ballot.

We voted!

We had a lot of fun and can't wait to learn the results of our school-wide mock election! I hope you all had a chance to get out and vote today, too!

Happy Halloween!

We have spent the last few days preparing for our exciting Halloween celebration! We learned about the pumpkin life cycle, had some fun with glitter, and read many books about our favorite fall holiday. On Halloween, we all dressed up in our costumes. There were princesses, bumblebees, transformers, and more parading through the school to show off our outfits and we had so much fun snacking on all of the yummy treats you sent in! In the afternoon, we participated in the second annual "Fun-O-Ween." The sixth graders of H.C.S. put so much work into preparing a variety of Halloween-themed activities for the K-2 students to participate in. We did the limbo, tossed bean bags, listened to spooky stories, and played "Ghost in the Graveyard," and had a wonderful time! After all of the fun of the day and what I'm sure was a busy night of trick-or-treating, it's a good thing the day after Halloween was pajama day!

Please enjoy these pictures from our busy Halloween day!