{"id":67,"date":"2015-10-27T08:52:25","date_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:52:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/?p=67"},"modified":"2015-10-27T08:52:25","modified_gmt":"2015-10-27T12:52:25","slug":"halloween","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/2015\/10\/27\/halloween\/","title":{"rendered":"Halloween!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><em><strong>Kindergartners<\/strong><\/em><\/span> are creating a page for their Art Alphabet Book that will go home at the end of the school year. \u00a0We are reading a book about manners called The Monster&#8217;s Monster. \u00a0We are following up with &#8220;M&#8221; is for Making a Monster. \u00a0Students will be drawing, cutting and gluing circles and rectangles together to create a monster collage. \u00a0They will add details with black crayons.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>1st graders<\/strong><\/span><\/em> are working on 3D monsters. \u00a0Learning to tear, bend, cut and glue papers together to create a 3D monster.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>2nd graders<\/strong><\/span><\/em> are using a paper pattern, scissors, and glue to form a sphere. \u00a0They will then use more paper to create a cylinder for a stem, paper bending and curling techniques for leaves and vines to create a pumpkin from the sphere. \u00a0If students have time and desire they will use paper to cut and glue jack-o-lantern features onto their pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>3rd graders<\/strong> <\/span><\/em>are creating &#8220;Witch Feet&#8221;. \u00a0We are connecting to language arts through the use of homophones and tongue twister. \u00a0&#8220;Which witch feet would you wish to wash?&#8221; \u00a0This is a 2D collage and pattern lesson.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>4th graders<\/strong><\/span><\/em> are\u00a0using a paper pattern, scissors, and glue to form a large sphere. \u00a0They will then use more paper to create a cylinder for a stem, paper bending and curling techniques for leaves and vines to create a pumpkin from the sphere. \u00a0If students have time and desire they will use paper to cut and glue jack-o-lantern features onto their pumpkin.<\/p>\n<p><em><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>5th graders<\/strong><\/span><\/em> are completing the follow-up writing reflection for the group 3D Witch project and getting back to the completion of their VanGogh Impressionist Sunflower Still Life in tempera.<\/p>\n<p>Next week we will all be finalizing our VanGogh lessons. \u00a0Look around the school for our displays.<\/p>\n<p>We will also begin our Dale Chihuly &#8220;Glass Installation&#8221; for the foyer. \u00a0We are in need of empty plastic water bottles!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kindergartners are creating a page for their Art Alphabet Book that will go home at the end of the school year. \u00a0We are reading a book about manners called The Monster&#8217;s Monster. \u00a0We are following up with &#8220;M&#8221; is for Making a Monster. \u00a0Students will be drawing, cutting and gluing circles and rectangles together to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":499,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-67","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/499"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=67"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=67"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=67"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/iblog.dearbornschools.org\/thomas\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=67"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}