Classroom News

We have started a new writing project. (This is in addition to our persuasive video project that students continue to work on.) our new writing project is called Monster Exchange. This is a descriptive writing project. Students create and draw their own monster. Students decide what their monster will look like and what type of personality it will have. After students draw their monster, students write a descriptive piece of writing about their monster. When students are finished with the piece of writing describing their monster's personality and what it looks like, we will switch with another class. The students in that class will try to draw our students' monsters based only on their description. This is a fun project that students are really enjoying. It can't to see how well students did describing their monsters.

To get this project started students practiced drawing a monster by listening to the description of the featured monster Purple Flea. Here are some students with their Purple Flea and the original drawing of the Purple Flea. The students did a great job listening to the description.

                                              The original drawing of Purple Flea

On Friday, Mr.B came to our classroom to share an email he received from a soldier stationed in Afghanistan. This soldier wrote to say thank you to all the students and staff at Sunderland Elementary School for sending such wonderful letters and supplies in the care packages. I am so proud of the students for taking on this community service project.

Here are some important upcoming events at Sunderland Elementary School and in our classroom.

June 3rd:  Strings/band concert at 9:45

June 10th: Junior Olympics

June 12th: Presentation of persuasive videos in the media center at 8:45

June 13th: Field trip to Pequot Museum/Mystic Aquarium

June 17th: Field Day

June 19th: Poetry Party in our classroom at 1:30

June 20 th: last day of school/ half day

 

Enjoy the rest of your weekend! Remember to fill someone's bucket!