French work with partners; Space art

Today in French, we got pieces of paper and we had to have a partner. My partner was Kyra, and Kyra had to do French actions, and I had to guess what they were. Then, I had to do the actions, and she had to guess. It was awesome! - Lexi

 

This afternoon in Art, we made pictures with pastels and we had to make the picture about if we lived, travelled, or explored in space. Mr. H. is going to put them on Artsonia and enter them the space draw. - Ava

 

This morning, for the first time in French class, the students got to work on their vocabulary and gestures in partners. The class did a really good job, and their French has been coming along nicely, with almost everyone now being able to say "J'ai parlé seulement en français aujourd'hui!" at the end of every class (ask your child if you're not sure what that means!). Here are some pictures of the students working on this, with their partners:

 

 

 

 

This afternoon, in Art class, the students were challenged to create an 11" x 17" image, using oil pastels. Once finished, I will upload the images to our Artsonia gallery (as usual). However, this time, we will also be submitting the artwork to the Space Foundation International Student Art Contest. The foundation "invites pre-kindergarten through 12th grade students from around the world to submit original artwork based on a space-oriented theme. The 2013 contest theme, "If I were going...", challenges students to imagine how they would personally experience space travel, exploration or settlement - and then interpret that idea into an original work of visual art...". Here are some of the works in progress: