Realistic Fiction Writing

In Writing Workshop we are working on writing a Realistic Fiction story. We are following the Lucy Calkins unit of study. We are SO lucky because Mrs. Daniels, our school's literacy coach, is working on it with us! We get to have two teachers in the room! It has been so much fun already, we really enjoy thinking "what if" to create our fictional story. We've come up with a character, setting, and a problem that our character faces. We have planned out the sequence of events, visualized the setting, and will soon begin drafting. 

Prowler Pride Friday!

Last Friday Coach Loe brought these ladies in to talk about basketball.

This morning 3 captains from the boys basketball team visited us. 

One of the boys even showed us a card trick!

Sam & Destiney were "caught being good" and Mr. Wienen brought them some prizes!  Good job guys! 

Have a super weekend! :)

Winter Art Projects {Penguins & Reindeer}

We made a couple of awesome art projects lately. The first one is these adorable penguins! All you need is scissors, glue, and construction paper! We loved making them, I think they turned out perfect! I got the idea for these here.

I got the idea for these reindeer from an awesome blog I follow called, Run! Miss Nelson's Got the Camera! Click here to see her post. She also has a link to the Artventurous post where she got the idea from! We drew the reindeer with pencil and outlined with black oil pastel. Then we colored the nose and the scarf with a red oil pastel. The rest was watercolored! I think it would be just as easy and cute to use crayons instead of oil pastels as well! I can hardly even handle how cute they turned out!