The Co-Curricular Chronicle
We're the Icing on the Cake!
Art is Awesome with Mrs. St. John!
Art is in full swing this spring!
First grade has been mixing colors with everything from crayons to paint to clay. They also painted sunflowers in the style of Van Gogh, and drew dragons for the Chinese New Year! Now we are starting our unit on Texture, so we will be playing with fabric, yarn, sand, glitter, and more!
Second grade practiced mixing colors - and putting them in rainbow order - with color wheel snowflakes. The made bright suns inspired by the ceramic sun faces of Mexico. Students designed their own cities and divided them into night and day with warm and cool colors. Next we will start our Texture unit with some weaving!
Third graders have learned all about color theory: monochromatic colors, complementary colors, warm/cool/neutral colors, and now analogous colors! They also completed a sewing project that turned out amazing! Look for it at the auction!
Fourth grade is learning all kinds of new techniques: blending chalk, painting with cardboard, creating value with soft drawing pencils and blending stumps, and mixing tints and shades. They have created artwork inspired by Raewyn Harris, Andy Warhol, Amedeo Modigliani, Wayne Thiebaud, and Georgia O’Keeffe.
Everyone is working hard on their class art pieces for the auction! We can’t wait to show them off! And now we are celebrating the writing and illustrations of Dr. Seuss with some fun, whimsical art projects!
Follow us on Twitter @Tvs_LS_Art
Pizza Color Wheels
Birch Trees
Chinese New Year Dragons
Reading Rocks in the Kingdom of Books!
Our LS summer reading celebration gives us the chance to come together as a community and celebrate the work and the fun of summer reading and sets a great tone of excitement for reading that we will continue to build on throughout the year.
We have also enjoyed sharing the "READ LIKE A BOSS!" survey reflections from the student booklets and want to share some of the things parents and students said about this year's challenge:
Parents Say:
- "I love that we spent more time together."
- "It helped us to have great book suggestions of what to read and enjoy together."
- "The booklist was wonderful and gave us book choices we had not read before."
- "We loved reading together and visiting our public library to find books on the list."
- "I liked reading so many incredible picture books with my 4th grader. Mrs. Murphy is right when she says picture books are for all ages."
Kids Say:
- "I am happy when I read with my family."
- "My family loved taking turns reading and being together."
- "I loved blending art with reading and making a summer project."
- "Summer reading helped my brain not to rot over the summer."
- "I like that I got to read so many books that I probably would have never read otherwise."
And a final thought from a 3rd grade student that sums up how we hope our students and families feel about the summer reading challenge:
"What I liked about summer reading is EVERYTHING!"
Thank you for all you do to support our LS Library and our students!
It's going to be a great year in the LS Library so please follow us on our social media sites and stay connected with the Kingdom of Books!
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Summer Reading Photos
Summer Reading Animoto
"Read Like A Boss" video
Making Music is Fun with Mrs. Holloway!
MUSIC THIS SPRING!
Tuesday, March 6 we sing for the residents at Trinity Courtyard! Always a favorite concert for our Lower School Choir. We'll sing spirituals and patriotic music.
Thursday, April 12 we perform for the Lower School all of our favorite music for the year! (more details to follow)
FOURTH GRADE HONOR CHOIR
The annual National Honor Choir Convention is March 21--24 in Oklahoma City. Representing our school is Olivia Carey, Jonathan Boothby, Meghan Clark, Anna Willmann, Brooklyn Weems, and Dahlia Roberts. Congratulations! These students auditioned in the fall and were selected from hundreds of other 4th graders across the US. They have spent lots of hours outside of class time preparing for this very special concert!
MUSIC CLASSES
Kindergarten will be exploring the instruments of the orchestra through the classic. "Carnival of the Animals". Kindergarten and First Grade will sing, play, and write simple
melodies on the music staff. Second, Third and Fourth Grades will focus on form in the coming weeks as they explore the instruments of the orchestra and learn to distinguish AB, ABA, and Rondo Forms.
Spanish is Sensacional con Sra. Ross! (K-1)
In First Grade we are working on the body parts by making monstruos, or monsters! We will describe how many of each part the monster has and what colors they are. During Seuss week we will focus on two books, Un Pez, Dos Peces, Pez Rojo, Pez Azul and Hay un Molillo en me Bolsillo (One Fish,Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish and There’s a Wocket in my Pocket). The kids will practice comparison descriptions of funny Fish and rhyming in Spanish by making nonsense words! After Spring Break we will focus on learning the months and seasons. In this unit we will focus on numbers and weather, too.
As always, look for additions to Seesaw to see what we’re learning. If you have any questions or comments, you can always contact me at rossa@trinityvalleyschool.org
Hasta Luego,
Sra. Ross
Spanish is Sensacional con Sra. Sanders! (2-4)
Second grade has been studying materiales escolares (school supplies) and saludos y despedidas (greetings). The first semester we will explore the traditions and foods of Paraguay, España, Venezuela, and Cuba.
Third grade has been concentrating on saludos y despedidas (greetings), la familia (family), and los amigos (friends). The first semester we will explore the traditions and unique foods of España, Uruguay, Puerto Rico and Guatemala.
Fourth grade has been gaining knowledge about saludos y despedidas (greetings), la familia (family), and los amigos (friends). During the first semester we will explore the traditions and unique foods of República Dominicana, España, Panamá and México.
Please, do not hesitate to contact me with any questions and or comments you may have, you can always contact me at sandersl@trinityvalleyschool.org
Con Cariño,
Sra. Sanders
Chinese is Great with Mrs. Zhang! (K-4)
Regarding Chinese culture, all Lower school kids will be celebrating the Mid-Autumn Festival during the last week of September and the first week of October. They will be learning how to make moon cakes.
Kindergarteners have been learning the "Hello" and "Goodbye" Chinese songs, numbers, and family members.
1st graders have been learning about animals and school supplies.
2nd graders have been learning about clothes and transportation.
3rd graders have been learning numbers 1-100, and date and time.
4th graders have been learning PIN YIN, which is the Chineses phonics.