The First Full Week of School

BZ was inspired by our Round-Up field trip and decided to make a western scene at home. She did an awesome job and brought it in to share with the class.

Each week 1 student is chosen to be the Star of the Week. They get to decorate a poster, bring it in to share with the class and eat lunch with the teacher on Thursday. AT was our first Star of the Week and she did an awesome job on her poster!

This was our first week of spelling. Our tests are on Fridays and we practice here at school a little bit each day. One of the ways we practice is to partner spell with the chalkboards. Here HS and SW are quizzing each other.

BZ and KC are working on getting all their words right!

On Friday we had our Welcome Back To School Assembly. It was a lot of fun. Mrs. Roberts and the 5th grade leadership team danced and sang to us at the beginning while everyone came in and sat down.

Mr. May explained to everyone how Tuesday morning book club works and that it will be in the library this year instead of the gym. Yeah!

Mrs. Roberts explained to everyone that we were going to be "cooking up a good year together" and so she had some staff and students add ingredients to the cauldron. Volunteers shared what they thought would be good ideas needed for a good school year. Some ideas were character traits like honesty and good citizenship while other ideas were having fun and being nice.
When the ingredients were added the cauldron would smoke and everyone was amazed at what great cooks we have here at Sherwood!

Projects we've been working on

For our art lesson of the week we worked on sponge painting. We discussed how we dab and not swear with our sponges and how to carefully clean up after art projects!


TT, AT, and TVN carefully work on their coyotes.

SF is showing how he is supposed to hold the sponge - only using a small part of the sponge- not the whole thing.

We worked on our first class book of the year which is an "All About Me" book. Each student creates their own poster and after we have shared them in the hallway, we laminate them, bind them, and place the book into our class library to be enjoyed again and again.

PB, CZ and CK are all doing a great job on their posters.

Our class goes to the computer lab 2-3 times a week. We work on math, writing and reading. On this day we were at the Starfall website which is an amazing site. The students loved it!

Mileage Club has started at Sherwood. The students earn prizes as they run laps during recess. PB is our fastest runner so far - he has already ran 5 miles!

BZ, IH, and AT help out another 2nd grade student during recess.

Roundin' up some fun!!

We had a wonderful time on our Round-Up field trip! The students were very excited to be going to the rodeo and to see all the animals. They have already asked me when we get to go on another field trip! Thank you very much to the parents who went with us - we couldn't go and do these things without your help!

CB and SW were able to pet the princess's horse. He was very friendly!

We climbed all the way to the top of the Happy Canyon bleachers - it's a long way up!

We had the chance to watch a farrier at work. He did a great job of turning the horses hoof so that we could see what was going on.

Willow was a belgian horse that we were allowed to pet. She would even put her head down lower so everyone could reach her!

We stopped and took a picture in the Teepee Village.

We were able to watch some of the rodeo. We yelled Let'r buck at the Round-Up Court and we cheered on the calf-ropers (and the calves when they managed to get away :)

After watching the rodeo we went to the Round-Up Musuem and one of the first things we saw was the bucking horse War Paint. We also stopped at Chute 8.

To finish the field trip, we ate lunch together in the park.

All in all, it was a great day! Let'r Buck!

1st Day Fun!!!

We had a wonderful first day of school! The students were great and we were able to do lots of fun things like watercolor, meet new friends, play games, go to music, and even celebrate BZ's birthday!


W.H., RH, JW, BG and BZ are playing with some frogs.

H.S., T.V.N, and T.T. are working hard on their puzzles during some choice time.

I.H . and A.T. are taking a break from their watercoloring.