Leaf art

We did a little leaf art project...

Each group of students had a plate of different leaves.  They picked one, traced around it, then picked another one to trace.  The idea was to overlap them and not draw the overlapped section. 

You can see on Aarin's drawing how part of the yellow leaf is overlapping the one already drawn on her paper.  That part of the yellow leaf will not be traced...it gives it a more 3D look!

The next step was to trace every pencil mark with crayon...

Then we watercolored!

This was a pretty short project, but a lot of fun!

Homecoming Parade

 Our local high school had its homecoming celebrations a couple of weeks ago.  Part of their festivities is a parade..

 a parade down the main street of our town.

 Fortunately, we got to go watch.  We, all the 4th and 5th graders, rode on the bus to a spot on the parade route where we could park the bus...and there was room for all of us to sit on the curb.

 Some of our boys were quite excited!

 The parade started at noon...

 

There were a lot of different floats..

 some designed by a particular club...

 or a class - like the junior class....

 there were also individual people doing something...

 Each club and class had representatives for homecoming king and queen... these two were both former room 5ers!

 Brenna was also a former room 5er!

The floats were fun to see!

We all had a great time!

Our 2nd session of Friday groups - on October 11

 

Elena (Nico's mom), Jaya, Kathryn, Kai

 I love this!  All these sewing machines with Room 5ers learning how to operate them.  Jayden told me he loved the sewing group and that using the sewing machine was kind of like playing a video game!

 Athena

 Kate, Kevin (Kathryn's dad), Elias, Owen, Tammy (Owen's mom) as they are making muffins!

 Kenneth (Kenneth's dad),  Makenzie, Veronica, and Dusty (Makenzie's mom)

 

 Mr. C., Lacie, Jim (Jaya's dad), Breanna, David, Aarin, Jayce, Jair, Jim (Jair's grandpa), ?, Lucas's back, John (John's dad)

 Mr. C leading the group in the design of their hat rack

 Tammy, Owen, an excited Kate

 Elias, Tammy, Owen, Kate

 

Kai

 Cody...using the dreaded seam ripper!

 Nico

 Aarin

 Kenneth

 Jair, Jim (Jair's grandpa), Jayce

 Mr. C showing Breanna how to cut the wood

 John (John's dad), Lucas, Lacie

 

Jim and Jayce

 Aarin...Hey!  Watch where you're cutting!!!

 John, Mr. C., Jair, Lucas, Lacie

 Tim and Jayce

 Jair

 David

 Athena

 Elena and Nico

 

Nico, Elena, Bevin

 Bevin with a little help from Aya (Kai's mom)

 Kathryn and Jaya

 Jayce's little brother...Adam (Did I get his name correct?)

Jennifer(Jayce's mom), Athena, and Cody

 Jayden and Becky, (Kate's mom)

 Kevin, Elias, John, Owen, Kate

 Elena and Nico

 Kai

 Athena, Cody, Aya (Kai's mom)

 Pumpkin-Apple muffins

 

Coffee cake muffins

 Kai and Jayden

 

Breanna, Kenneth, Mr. C

 John and Aarin

 Jim (Jaya's dad), Jair, Jayce

 Makenzie and Dusty....daughter/mother!

 Veronica

 Makenzie and Dusty

 Owen, John, Elias...serving us our muffins!

 Athena, Kenneth, Kate, Veronica

 Makenzie

 John, Elena, Nico, Fawn

 YUM! 

 

Kevin and Kenneth

Becky...Kate's mom

 Jim and John

 Kai

 John and Owen

There is NO way we could do these centers without our parents.  These are not all of the ones who helped...as some had left before I took this picture.  Thank you to all of you!