Bonjour Ami!

Bonjour from Paris, France! Today we visited the Eiffel Tower, the most famous landmark in France. The Eiffel Tower was completed in 1889 by an architect named Gustave Eiffel. It was originally built for an exhibition as part of a celebration of the 100th anniversary of the French Revolution. The Eiffel Tower stands over 900 ft tall! Did you know that you can eat and shop in the Eiffel Tower? We became architects today and built mini Eiffel Towers out of toothpicks. We also looked at more of Claude Monet's artwork and painted a scene of our favorite season. We had a blast in France. Next week we are staying in the classroom to learn about bats. WHo knows maybe our next trip will be to a bat cave? See you next week!
Ton ami(your friend),
Mrs. Skipper

Bienvenue a la France

Welcome to France! Today we packed our passports and headed for France. We started by talking about what we know and what we want to learn about France. We spilt into partner groups and started researching facts to add to our France Journals. Here are a few things we learned: Paris is the capital city of France. There is a railroad that goes under the sea that connects to Great Brittian. France is the largest country in Western Europe. There is lots of traffic in the city of Paris. There is a game that is like hopscotch called Escargot(named after the famous french food!) It is 3,833 miles from Washington,DC to Paris it would take 7 hours and 25 minutes to get there on an airplane!

We started learning our numbers in French.

Later we "Met Monet" and looked at some of his beatiful paintings. We imitated his Impressionist sytle and painted our own scenes.

It was a great day in gifted!

Check out this cool website that we found last week: http://www.storylineonline.net/ One of our favorites is How Pigasso Met Mootisse!

Mrs. Skipper's Gifted

Dear pairints,
today we practist for the musical. We made tangrams which are aincent Chinese puzzles. We painted picassos with all one color. We felt different things in a bag using one of our senses. We went to China. We wrote on C is for...
Julianna and Julia A

You can visit http://pbskids.org/sagwa/games/tangrams/ and try to complete these tangram puzzles.

Picassos

Today in gifted we learned a little bit about Pablo Picasso. We

looked at many of his works of art and discovered that he changed his style several times over the course of his life.

We discussed the elements of line, color, and shape and how he used them in one famous piece. After looking at Petite Fleurs we recreted it in our own unique way. We are budding artists!

Our Special Day at Gifted

We had fun. We learned about music and we learned about a new artist.
Ryan

About GIfted

it was very very fun you to rigth about the whole class room

ishaan

Our First Day at Gifted with Mrs. Skipper

Today in gifted we had so much fun! We made an all about me poster. We learned about an artist named Jackson Pollock(Action Jackson.) We painted, splatered, dripped, and dropped just like him. You can create a painting like Jackson Pollock at www.JacksonPollock.org (click on the link to check it out!) In Science lab we did an experiment called Color Splash, it was awesome! We played a game called Dictionary Discovery and Whiz kids. Make sure you check out our blog every week to see what we did in gifted!
Thanks!
Mrs. Skipper's 1st graders

Some of our favorite things:
-The artist's corner
-Are you thinking?
-Color Splash!
-Crazy painting
-Dictionary Discovery
-Getting our hands dirty in art
-All about me posters
-I don't know....