It's time to start learning about some artists! This week's feature was Rembrandt. ("Let's REMEMBER the name REMBRant"). We learned that he was from a country called the Netherlands ("hey, that's really close to England, where Teddy is from!") and that he loved to paint really realistic pictures of himself! We call these self-portraits. Rembrandt practiced his drawing skills over and over every day and became so good at drawing that his self-portraits almost looked like photos! Just like Rembrandt, we can get better at anything if we keep practicing it over and over, too! We started with some practice pages... ...and eventually progressed to making our own self-portraits! We used mirrors to examine our faces and help us try to copy our facial features onto the page. It was a great first try! All of our portraits were unique expressions of who we are. In French, the first couple of months had our focus mainly on letter SOUNDS so that we could get those building blocks of reading in place. Now that we have gone through the entire alphabet, we are reviewing those sounds and adding in letter NAMES with our alphabet rap. If you skip to about the 4 min mark, the rap repeats itself, but this time with a split screen showing the gestures we associate with each letter sound. If it's too fast, you can click on the little gear on the bottom right and slow down the speed. We are also continuing to learn more digraphs. This week's focus was on "oi" and "an/en". We figured out that we can take the digraphs we've been learning and put them together like puzzle pieces to create real French words! We have also been doing some games outside to help identify and entrench the digraphs. Today we put on quite the show for passers-by as we moved around the field to our different sounds, doing the actions for the sounds as we walked/ran. In Math, we've moved on to a new mental calculating strategy - adding doubles! A few years ago, Madame made a very cringe-worthy video with her kids to help us practice our doubles facts. (Where's the auto-tune when you need it?!) Madame says we'll hang out on this concept for awhile so we can work on memorizing our doubles facts. Extra photos... ![]() Comments are closed.
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