Ms. Tucker

We’ve been writing poetry during Writer’s Workshop. This morning we wrote a Diamante Poem together (pronounced dee-uh-MAHN-tay). We’ll write our own and will share at our Author’s Tea later this month (date TBD). A Diamante Poem is diamond in shape, has 7 lines and goes like this: Noun Adjective, Adjective Verb, Verb, Verb Noun, Noun,… [Read More...]

The Snow by Room 16 Looking at the snow on the trees the cars the grass and the frozen dirt Listening to snow flakes fall laughter whistling wind the snow crunching under my feet Smelling coffee and hot chocolate pie in the oven the blazing fire.

We’ve begun our BALANCE and MOTION science investigations this week and are loving it! Our scientists are hypothesizing different ways to balance a variety of shapes, and are excited by our results. I love the way science brings out the curiosity in all of us, and the enthusiasm we have to make discoveries. We have… [Read More...]

This month we begin an author study of Ezra Jack Keats! Keats is a Caldecott winner for his book The Snowy Day. Born in Brooklyn in 1916, Keats was inspired by the community he was a part of. He drew from his own experiences to tell stories which transcended culture, race and socioeconomic backgrounds. By… [Read More...]

Thanksgiving Week we were able to make paper with “The Tree Lady”. Students loved the process and the result! Prepped and ready to go! While Josh presses his paper, Alex begins the process of draining the water out of his Dominic gets to be the example for his classmates Austin, Haylie, Nick and Joseph get… [Read More...]

This week we welcomed the Multnomah County Library’s “Tapestry of Tales” program. We were thoroughly entertained by their storyteller, who had us all laughing about her childhood experience on a sled. Ask your student about it! Also this week: Our Funky Monkeys (3-5 students) performed beautifully a rendition of the book An Eagle’s Song through music, puppetry,… [Read More...]

Today we learned “The Laughing Game”. Chinook children would play this game where you tell a friend a joke. The twist is that you can’t laugh, you can’t even smile, or you lose. Play at home for fun! Next Wednesday we celebrate the culmination of all of our work studying the People of the Columbia… [Read More...]

Make sure to ask your child today about our basket weaving afternoon. We started with a lightweight cardboard base and wove rafia around and around, until we reached the top of the spokes. Lilly and Galilea were able to figure out how to finish off the baskets and taught our entire class. Way to go… [Read More...]

Here are some highlights from this week, October 31-November 3: Monday was deemed “Pumpkin Day”. We did pumpkin math, we wrote from the perspective of a pumpkin on an adventure, we played “The Great Pumpkin” tag game and “Toss the Pumpkin” game in PE, we watched a video on the uses of giant pumpkins and… [Read More...]