Tales Of A 4-5 Something

The green screen club meets every Friday at second recess. It is where you learn about recording, sharing a story, and special effects. You video record what you want to do and use an app to make the magic happen. You can do things like change the backgrounds. You could change it to a campground or a waterfall to make your video cool and interesting. If you wear the same color green sweatshirt, you can be only a head!!☺️ by Morgan nickname Mo

We are studying Peru. In one of our classes we are learning about the Nazca Lines. They are geoglyphs. Geoglyphs are carvings or designs in the land. People in Peru made really cool ones in the desert. Tim asked us to make our own design like the Nazca Lines. We looked at animals in Peru and picked one. Then we made our design to look like the animal. Some drew theirs on big pieces of paper and some people made their designs out of legos and some made them out of buttons. We made them on Minecraft. Here are a few of them. We will put more up when we finish them. By Charlie and Liam Charlie's Cock-On-The-Rock             Jaden's Anaconda             Olivia's  Monkey Frog Seth's Yellow-Tailed Wooly Monkey                Liam A's Yellow-Tailed Monkey Basil's Tapir             Elijah's Cock-On-The-Rock           ...

We are having fun in WW. We have learned new kinds of poems and are listening to poems that are in books. Here are more of our poems. STREAMS the wavy splashy song of a stream. The sounds that make me beam. the super secrets of the day are nothing to be seen. when i sink down low into this stream. right then i realize it is just a dream. by Liam A. Spring Is coming Awakening the earth The birds are humming The World's rebirth The Flowers are blooming The Snow is leaving The colors are booming The sun is beaming Spring is definitely coming By Jaden We are learning about Triolets. I tried to make one today.  I don’t know what to write by charlie l. I don’t know what to write I think I will take a break I will have a sprite I don’t know what to write maybe I will have a bite ooh I have a headache I don’t know what to write I think i will take a break I made these free verse poems in writing workshop in schoo...

We like playing sports and we wonder what everyone else thinks. We made a sports survey and hope you can fill it out. You can fill it out here . Cole, Charlie L., and Charlie D.

We started a new unit in WW. We are working on poetry. This week we have been looking at other poets. We have been inspired by Williams Carlos Williams . We are looking at some of his most popular poems and trying to write some like them. Have you read This Is Just To Say or The Red Wheelbarrow ? If you try to write one please share it with us. Here are some examples of our work. By Becca So much depends upon The yellow little pencil As sharp as  can Be, with no eraser. By Jack I am sorry for crashing your car but you should have moved the garbage bins. By Ellery I Am I am the gnome in your backyard. The sky looking down at your sea. I am the salmon you are having for dinner. I am the moon gazing at the bright white stars. By Basil I'm sorry I have destroyed your brand new $10,000 pre-ordered iPhone 6s plus with custom rose gold diamond encrusted sides.  I just wanted to do a video ...

S N O W Over winter vacation we got s n o w . It is amazing for all of Maine. All Waynflete Lower School students have loved the s n o w ! L ast week the s n o w was all packed down and stiff and it was melting. We were hoping for mor e s n o w to come because our sledding hill was not even open yet. This week it snowed we are all very very happy because our sledding hill is now open.    These are a few photographs of the s n o w at our school (credit to Keegan D And Ivy A for taking the time to take these wonderful photos)    

These are links to our lit group's book soundtracks and book trailers. There were three groups that read different books in Tim's homestation. When we were done reading we split up into groups within our lit groups and made soundtracks and trailers. Book trailers are like movie trailers and they try to show how good the book is. A soundtrack are songs that go with a script so we found songs that go with our books.  Charlie D. and Cole Here are the projects: Dear Levi by Eliza Woodruff Ivy, Keegan, and Iris Dear Levi by Eliza Woodruff Charlie L., Jack, and Jaden The Ballad of Lucy Whipple by Karen Cushman Seth, Tobias, and Eliza Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan Cole, and Charlie D. Riding Freedom by Pam Muñoz Ryan Rose, Sasha, and Jane

After Thanksgiving we started to learn about Paul Goble . He was a writer who listened to stories of the Native Americans from the plains. A lot of the stories were about how things came to be. Paul Goble would retell their stories in books and add his own pictures. We read a lot of his stories and we learned how to tell stories with our voices. ( Here is a fun video Nancy and Tim showed us.) Then we wrote our own myths. Some people wrote about how birds got their feathers, why frogs croak, and why there is winter. All of the stories were typed up and then we did a Puppet Pals video where we retold our story like people did in the old days. Most of us finished before vacation. If you come up to 4-5 you can see them all in the hallway but some of them are here. We will add more during the week. Why Does The Bear Have Fur? By Ian        Story      Video How There Came To Be Color  by Ivy     Story     Video Why Birds Sing...