Bumble Bees and Ducks!

Every day it dawns on me that I only have a select few days left with these kiddos, and man I am going to be sad on the last day of school. We have developed such a wonderful classroom community and I cherish all the moments we have had this year! Here are a few projects we have been working on this past week.

Bumble Bee Directed Drawing

As we finish up the year we are working a few final art pieces to complete our art portfolios! This week we drew Bumble Bees and then finger painted them! The students absolutely loved getting to use their fingers instead of brushes and man did they concentrate! It was practically silent while they were painting! It is amazing at how their drawing skills have improved over the course of the school year! I can't wait for you to see their portfolio's so you can see their first drawing of the year compared to their last! AMAZING!

A student draws and colors in her bumble bee.

A student finger paints his bumble bee.

Our wall looks so beautiful with all the different bumble bees!

Duck Writing

We are finishing up our HUGE duck writing project. We have gone through 4 drafts of writing and students are finally working on their final drafts of their projects and are so excited to share them with you! We started back with brainstorming facts and opinions about ducks. Then we put those facts and opinions into a paragraph format. Next we edited their writing for book spelling, capital letters and of course punctuation. Finally we are copying over their edited version and making it into their final draft! It has been quite the process but they have truly risen to the challenge! Here is a photo of a student working on copying over her edited version for the final draft. Also here is a picture of the ducks swimming outside. We had to watch them for inspiration for our writing :)

A student works on copying over her final draft.

Students watching our ducks swim!

Well only 13 days left of school but we are packing those days full of fun and learning! Thanks for joining myself and our class on this ride! It has been a blast :)

Smiles,

Miss Adams