First and second grade students performed their re-worked nocturnal animal version of Are You My Mother? to an enormous crowd of families and students at Gathering.

Tr. Jill's 1/2 graders have been exploring the parts of speech.  This week they learned about adjectives.

On Monday the class defined adjectives: a word that describes a noun.  Together the students listed a few nouns and several adjectives that could describe those nouns.  

On Tuesday each student chose two objects in the classroom to describe.  They jotted a few adjectives that described each object on a post-it note and then stuck the note to the object.         

The classroom was soon dotted with pink post-its. 

In the afternoon, the class used adjectives in Writing Workshop.  Once again, the students chose two objects in the room to write about.  This time, in sentence form, the students wrote riddles about their objects, using several adjectives.   Here are some examples of their riddles:

• I am many colors.  I am small.  I am about 3 inches long.  I am made of wax. What am I?

  I am a crayon.

• I have a ladder with lots of pillows, long pillows and small pillows. I am brown.  People climb up and down me on my ladder.  What am I?  

  The  Loft.

• I am pink.  I am used for controlling you.  I am inside you.  I help you think.  I am mushy.  What am I?

  I am your brain.

• I am on the ceiling.  I am long.  I help you see.  People turn me on and off.  What am I?

  I am a light.

The school community gathered last night for a potluck supper followed by a discussion of Three Cups of Tea, our all-school book group selection this year.  Third and fourth grade students and Tr. Alison had read and discussed the book earlier this year and were eager to share their responses and questions with parents, teachers, Meeting members, and students .

Pre-K through 2nd grade students and some parents met in a separate group to hear and respond to the picture book version of Three Cups of Tea, Listen to the Wind through dress-ups and/or through collages.