End of May Update

Our Super Fantastic Class End of the Year Self Portraits

The Painted Lady butterflies have hatched!  They were in a chrysalis stage for about 10 days and we arrived at school Tuesday to see lovely butterflies.  We also found an orange-red liquid on the ground. This is called meconium and is the waste material from the pupa. It is NOT blood as butterflies do not have blood; they have what is called hemolymph.   During the time the wings are drying, the proboscis (tongue tubes) will uncoil and recoil, as the imago (adult butterfly) readies itself to go out into the world to begin its 2-week or so life to procreate.  We will be releasing the butterflies Thursday or Friday of this week.

We had our last Big Buddy session Tuesday.  We revisited the artist, Wayne Thiebaud, who is known for his paintings of dessert.  This time, we looked at his bubble gum machines and then did a probability exercise with our big buddies.    We learned how likely it would be to get certain colors of bubble gum.

We are having fun with geometry... .learning about vertices, flat surfaces, faces, and edges.  We are also learning about the sides and vertices of flat polygons.


Talent Show forms will still be accepted until Thursday!  We hope to have lots of fun acts.

We have been spending a lot of time learning about what makes an excellent writer.  The number one way we have been doing that is to read, read, read lots of wonderful pieces of writing.   While reading, we have been collecting samples of how authors use similes to add description to their writing.  We have been having so much fun doing this and we are amazed how often authors use similes!  Some of our very favorite authors, like Roald Dahl, use them all the time.   

Flat Stanley posters are mostly finished.  Students will be able to take these home on Monday, June 17th at our 3pm showcase of student work.