Elementary Express: It's Already Winter Break!

Making perspective portraits

Hard to believe that we are already at the end of December, and that signifies that it's time for Winter Break! Despite frigid temperatures and seemingly endless days of indoor recess due to the bone-chilling cold, the kids took it in stride and enjoyed their days of indoor recess with games and fun activities. We were more active than usual with all the indoor recess, and the students enjoyed lots of GoNoodle action videos. They also enjoyed our final round of Art Adventure, thanks to our parent volunteers. They created their own creatures using model magic and other supplies. This week, we finished up quite a bit of content, including a science project on different kinds of weather, the moon, sun and stars. We learned about perspective in art and created a "catching snowflakes" self-portrait. Students had a contest for cleanest desk groups last week, and the winning group got to choose the class-wide reward for this week. Our Angelfish group won, and they chose cartoon-drawing. Students enjoyed this immensely, and it was wonderful to see how different everyone's Greg from Diary of a Wimpy Kid and Olaf from Frozen turned out. We had a lot of fun learning and cooperating together. I hope everyone has a safe and happy break!