Bean Art

Today we read a book about Cindy Ellen.  It was like a Cinderlla story but it took place in the wild west .  They had a rodeo and square dance instead of a ball.  We read another about a Cinderella and a Prince that liked running in bare feet and climbing trees.  At the end of that story instead of getting married they ran off in a hot air balloon.
Tomorrow we are building a vehicle that  could carry a Cinderella from her house to the ball.   It has to have wheels and a place to hold Cinderella. We will build it at school but Ms. Mahan told us today in case we want to think about it tonight.
At the end of the day we made our bean art.  We added the right colour beans to make the art 3-D instead of 2-D.  When we were done we put it in a pan and put it in our desk.  We had to had to try fill up the whole paper with beans.  Tomorrow we are going to cover our art with dirt and see if it will grow.  We also opened a bean  to see what is inside.  Some of the parts were the seed coat, the root, leaves and the food.  At the end we labelled a picture with the right words.
In math we started talking about subtraction.  We used blocks and whiteboards.  We talked about the different names for subtracting like minus,  subtract and take away.