50th Day of school - 50's style

We celebrated the 50th day of school in true 1950's style.  We came dressed in our best poodle skirts, rolled up jeans, white t-shirts and slicked back hair.  We wrote a "how - to" about making root beer floats and then drank our creations!  Our math lesson focused on the counting to 50, and creating patterns using a old fashioned 45 LP.  Take a look at some of the pictures of our fun celebration.

Dressed up in 50's style

Bobby socks and poodle skirts

We go together

We even read together

Creating patterns on record albums

Learning numbers greater than and less than 50 (on a 45)

Creating the cover for our "How to Make a Root Beer Float" book

Yum!

A root beer float needs a lot of whipped cream.

 

Rolling to 50

Don't forget to dress up for 50's Day on Monday!

Monday is the 50th day of school and we are going to be celebrating 50's style!  Come dressed to school in a 50's style outfit (please don't spend money on an outfit - be creative).  Also, please bring in 50 of something from you house (50 buttons, 50 pennies, etc.)  We will be sharing our 50 things and doing many other activities to celebrate the 50th day of school.  

Character Day!

We all dressed up as our favorite book characters and wrote about who the characters are and what they do in their stories.  It was fun to see all of these characters come to life!

Peter and The Gingerbread Boy 

Peter Pan

"Wegie Wat" and Bambi

A Ninja

Ivy and Bean and Ivy

The Gingerbread Boy Who Was Loose in the School

Pinkalicious

Mrs. Wishy Washy and a Pig

The Big Apple Crunch!

Our kids, along with all the other kids throughout the city, crunched on an apple at the same time.  How loud do you think the crunch was?  Watch the video to find out.

Caring School Community Kick Off Parade

           As part of our Social Studies curriculum, PS 154 instituted a school-wide initiative several years ago called the Caring School Community program.  This program focuses on opening communication about many different social topics such as kindness to classmates, exclusion on the playground and bullying.  We also will be discussing topics that involve philanthropy (Penny Harvest), environmental issues (Earth Day) and cultural diversity.  

            Last week we met with our buddy class, class 5-306, for the first time.  We will be participating in many projects together.  Our first meeting involved kicking off the Caring School Community parade.  Each class was asked to create a banner highlighting one of the several social commitments to our school.  Our classes were assigned "We promise to take care of our school and everything in it."     

                

         

Decker Farms

We kicked off our new Social Studies unit of study: Families - Then and Now with a trip to Decker Farms.  We were able to explore a real working farm to see how families lived and worked over 100 years ago.  We compared the differences in the conveniences of today's technologies with the hand made tools of yesterday.  We completed our trip by picking a pumpkin from the pumpkin patch and then taking a hayride around the property.  

Watching Farmer Harry demonstrate how farm tools were used.

Ling and Selina's first hayride!

                                                                                   

Smelling some home made soap

Cleaning rugs the old-fashioned way.

Chess has started!

Chess has started and the kids are so excited to learn new strategies from our instructor Manuel.  We have Chess every Thursday during 2nd period so be sure to play a game over the weekend to give the kids a chance to practice.