Boise Art Museum comes to Mrs.Hedberg's Class!

The Boise Art Museum provides an outreach program the program is free and the art reach educator provides the students with an opportunity to be exposed to many of the collections within the museum. Today the students experienced the Art and Science of Collecting. As a class my students discovered that they are "curators" of their own collections at home! Things our class collects: rocks,miniatures,baseball cards, cars, poke'mon cards,

The students even got to make their own mini collections out of clay today. The students were given special artist clay to make create a collection of three or more items!

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Please look in your child's Friday folder for a FREE admission for one student and two guests good through June 30!

Happy Earth Day

Cookie fossils

Today students excavated the chocolate chips out of their cookie to experience what is was like to uncover fossils! Next week each student needs to bring one cup flour and one cup salt we will be creating a fossil casting in salt dough in connection with our story of the week.

Bubble Gum, Shaving Cream and Cookies!

Dear Parents,

We are in need of these three items.  If you are a parent that would like to  send in 2 dozen chocolate cookies for Thursday 4/18 I am planning a fun fossil connection to our story of the week! The students will be digging out the chocolate chips as if they were fossils in order to experience what it may have been like to be a paleontologist! Please contact me or send an e-mail!

Amazing Talent

Good luck Daniel, for entering a drawing contest for the Idaho Beef Council. Congratulation to Amaya for her recognition in the local paper for her dancing! I look forward to all my students sharing their many talents at the end of the year with a little talent show of our own. Be thinking of what talent you want to share! Okay here's one more Dani earned a "show and tell" from the treasure chest and brought her violin to play for the class.

Science

Making a real life connection! We just concluded our 6 week unit on inventions. The students completed a web quest inquiry of eight various inventions that have influenced society. Then students had to select one of the eight inventions and write a paragraph explaining which invention they thought was the most important.  For an end of the unit fun, and to make real life connections with our learning, the students got to try to eat with "chop sticks"  The students learned that in China people ate wtih chopsticks over 5,000 years ago. Chop sticks were the first "forks"! Europeans wouldn't start using forks until they first appeared in Italy around 1100 A.D.