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Today we tried our hand at re-creating blue and white Chinese art.  It was so awesome! We practiced painting rainbow bridges, pagodas, dragons, and other Chinese symbols. We will be pairing up with Mrs. Ross’ kindergarten this week to finish our Ming Dynasty vases. Stay tuned!

One of our reading lessons involved something really unusual: shoes. Mrs. Self compared her boot to Gray’s sneaker. She then asked the class to take notes on how the shoes were similar and different. Everyone came up with different (and interesting!) responses!
We learned that readers’ schemas are a lot like the shoes we wear. We [...]

For our unit of study on China, we paired up with Mrs. Ross’ kindergarten class one day. We taught the little kids that the Chinese invented porcelain, and while we aren’t able to make porcelain at school (that would be a little bit dangerous!)….we mimicked the look by using paper mache. Once our vases dry, [...]