Bee Bots and Working and Learning Together

We've spent two weeks exploring programming with Bee Bots. Groups are working on a variety of challenges to move their Bot. 

First we used arrow cards with directions to decide how to program the Bot to travel in a square.

Then we made our own maze and drew out our program.

We are fortunate to have Dartmouth students join us!

This Bot had to stay on the taped track to maneuver over a crack in the floor before it made it to the finish line!

This week we worked together in literacy groups to retell Native American legends of the Plains Indians as they were retold by Tomie DePaola. We charted story elements and used a Venn diagram to compare the main character.

In math we used a "foot" to measure items in our classroom as a "kick off " to a new unit on measurement. 

It's great to see how well we work and share with each other!

Native American Indian Visitors

  We were very excited to have Native American Indians come to join our class last week.  Mrs. Lynn O'Neil and Nate Pero came to talk about  Abenaki customs and traditions they learned from their families.  Both Chief Nate and Ms. Lynn bought artifacts to share with us.  Mrs. Lynn brought ash and birch bark baskets made by her relatives and beautiful bead work she made using beads, porcupine quills and shells.  Nate had animal skins, a turtle shell shield and arrows heads.  Kids noticed how all of the items were made from materials found in nature.

Chief Nate explained how a turtles shell represented the months of the year to his native culture.

       

 Nate also brought snow snakes.

                                        Please join him   

 On January 27th  for Annual Snow Snake Games.

   Thetford, Center

35 Five corners Rd. and Rt 113 Thetford Ctr.   1 pm till done.          

 4 categories:  Girls 14 and younger. Boys  14 and younger.   

 Ladies 15 and older  Men  15 and older.    

Winners will receive a bottle of My Maple Syrup

 

Regalia and Hood Museum

REGALIA

Native American indian Dress and dance

We read this book by Russell Peters.  This book told us about Native American people who keep their traditions of their culture alive. The regalia that they wear is a statement of who Native People are. Their drumming, singing and dancing is their gift to share. We dressed puppets in our expressions of regalia.

Hood Museum

We were archaeologist during our third trip to the Hood Museum! We learned archaeologist study human history as we participated in mapping activities and a dig for pottery shards. We looked at photographs of Greek vessels. 

For the studio project we made mosaic designs.
Please come see our art work on display at school.