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....

Welcome Back!

Dear Students,
I am so excited that our school year is about to begin! Our journey this year will take us around the world in 180 days. Together, in gifted, we will virtually explore our world and have lots of fun along the way. In preparing for our journey I would love to know where you want to go. If you could learn more about our world or travel anywhere, where would that be?? Please click on "comment" below and tell me your answer!

Your travel guide,
Mrs. Skipper