4-5 went on a field trip to the Fore River salt marsh to have a closing ceremony and to give the land an acknowledgement because we want people to know about how the native people had the land first and how the Europeans took the land that was rightfully theirs. We also wanted to share how the habitat is important to us and to animals. We went around the trails and collected a lot of trash. Then we collected things that caught our eye that were part of nature and put them in a stick circle. We imagined how long the installation would last through the winter. Then we had apple cider and popcorn as a treat to end our experience at the marsh for 2022. It was fun learning about the marsh this year!
It was the last day at the salt marsh until spring. We had to do a little cleanup and so we set off in search of trash, we found a bunch of garbage including tennis balls, bottles, foam and some rags. Then we each found a piece of nature and then we put our pieces of nature in a circle before enjoying a treat of popcorn and apple cider. And then we left waiting for spring and our next visit !!!!!!!!
A few weeks ago, we started creating self portraits. We learned about Romero Britto and his style , which includes patterns, bold lines, bright colors and simple designs. We all added food into our Romero Britto-inspired self-portraits because we are telling people about ourselves and our favorite foods. We are doing a study called Local Foods and we are adding foods, sometimes in repetitive patterns, to our portraits. We hung the portraits in our classroom and now we can see the similarities and differences in our class. By showing our favorite foods others can relate and connect to us. We assembled the foods into bright patterns and divided the sections with thick black lines like Romero Britto. We also hid other things we like into our self portraits. We put as much detail as we could into the pieces to show our identities. After we finished them, we mounted them on black paper and hung them on the wall. We hope you like them. This is our first blog post of the year and we work...



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