Lil' Indians
Cambridge Elementary School
February 28, 2019
In This Issue:
- Art Creature Creations
- Mrs. Gwin's Hat Makers
- The Wedding of Q and U
- Elementary Drama Club
- China
- First Grade Loves
- 5th Grade Famous Americans Artwork
- Mrs. Record's First Grade Celebrates 100th Day!
- How to Weave Baskets
- Chinese New Year
- Mrs. Snowball's Second Grade Writes Haiku
Art Creature Creations
Mrs. Gwin’s Hat Makers
Mrs. Gwin’s second grade class made hats for Mystery Science. We were on a deserted island and had to design a hat because the sun was beating on us. We only could use the materials from a lunch box. Those items were: paper plates, paper towels, paper bags, tin foil, yarn, and clothes pins. First, we drew our design and then we made our design. When all the hats were finished, we described how our hat would protect us from the sun.
Pictured Below: Mrs. Gwin's class with their hats!
The Wedding of Q and U
Elementary Drama Club
China
China has five stars on their flag and the big one represents China’s government because government is very important in China. There are four small stars that are not as important. One is teachers, another one is farmers, one is soldiers, and one is every day workers. These are all important to China because they all support the income of China, and China is the most populated country. Most of the people are under one of the stars. We just made a representative of the Chinese flag in Mr. Flint’s class after studying China.
First Grade Loves...
First Grade Loves...
First Grade Loves...
Barack Obama
Artwork for Mrs. McKeighan's 5th Grade Famous American Research Project
Theodore Roosevelt
Artwork for Mrs. McKeighan's 5th Grade Famous American Research Project
George Washington
Artwork for Mrs. McKeighan's 5th Grade Famous American Research Project
Mrs. Record's First Grade Celebrates 100th Day!
How to Weave Baskets
By Dawson Honyoust and Aksel Kohler, 3rd Grade
Mrs. Law-Saunders came to teach the whole 3rd grade how to weave baskets. She is from Cornell Cooperative Extension and she teaches free programs to students. She came on February 8, 2019. She gave us our supplies and taught us about wafts and wefts.
Here are the steps to weave a basket:
Step 1. Get a paper plate and cut little triangles out around the edge.
Step 2. Lift each flap of the paper plate up and get string or yarn.
Step 3. Weave in and out around the flaps of the plate. You keep doing it over again and again. Pull the string kind of tight so that the flaps stay up like a bowl shape.
Step 4. When you have gotten close to the top of your plate, take a bottle of glue and glue the top of the string on each flap.
Step 5. Write your name on your bowl.
Step 6. Decide how you want to use it at home or in the classroom.
Those are the 6 steps to follow to make a basket. We felt like this was a fun experience for us to learn how to weave. Everyone likes when Mrs. Law-Saunders comes to visit!
Pictured below: 1) Mrs. Law-Saunders helping students in Mrs. Lathrop's class, 2) Ella Sartoris and Aidan Cannistraci weaving, 3) the class with their finished artwork!
Chinese New Year
Mrs. Flint’s students enjoyed making Chinese lanterns with the help of Mrs. Liu-Gorman at the start of the Chinese New Year. Thank you Mrs. Liu-Gorman for helping us and for teaching us even more about this wonderful holiday!
Mrs. Snowball's 2nd Grade Writes Haiku
Teal Water Haiku
By Kamdyn Wright, 2nd Grade
The water is teal
Really wavy at the beach
Many sharp grey rocks
Red Fox Haiku
Red fox is furry
It might be cold in the snow
His tail is bushy
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