Reading Buddies
Today we met with our 5th grade reading buddies for the first time. Throughout this year, once a week, we will be meeting with our buddies, from Mrs. Thompson's fifth grade class, to work on our reading. 
Each week we switch classrooms, today we went to Mrs. Thompson's room and the 5th graders read to us. Next week the 5th graders will come to our classroom and we will read to them. There are many benefits to this practice, when the 5th graders read to us we have the model of a fluent reader and when we read to 5th graders we get to develop our own fluency. Plus - it is fun. Check out some of the pictures from our time with reading buddies today.Art
For art time today we studied the art of Victor Vasarely, particularly his piece: Zebegen. As we looked at this piece we discussed the artists use of contrasting colors and the way he carefully arranged the shapes to create an optical illusion. Our art words today were: contrast, shape, abstract, and optical illusion.
After checking out even more of his art of his website http://www.vasarely.com/ , we made some of our own abstract art using oil pastels and black paper. We used geometric shapes and colored them using contrasting colors.
Come and check it out - it will be posted outside of our classroom.
