Rockets, El Cinco de Mayo, Mexico, Weaving, Free Choice Time, and more........ 

- waiting for the 6th and 7th graders to lauch their rockets -

still waiting

- out in the soccer field students are getting ready to launch their rockets -
they have been working on them all week

off goes one rocket

way up in the clouds - very exciting!!!

after rocket launching we are ready to celebrate El Cinco de Mayo

baked tortilla chips with cheese (soy cheese), guacamole - we made it
with avocados, cilantro, and onions
we had salsa too

Max - sharing a map of Mexico
Liliana is comparing it to a smaller map we studied earlier

Bailey - sharing her map of Mexico
"Mexico is South of the United States"

weaving colorful Mexican patterns

"over and under, over and under, over and under.........

can you tell how hard we are concentrating?

it's relaxing too

We really like this weaving!  We just got started  -
it's hard to smile and weave at the same time

- different kind of weaving -
we're making Ojos de Dios with out student teacher

I'm almost done with my Ojo de Dios

it's actually fun to make Ojos de Dios

thank you Brittany for teaching us how to make Ojos de Dios
on your last day with us

Ojos the Dios or God's Eye is a cultural symbol in Mexico.  Ojo de Dios is a
yarn weaving and it is also considered a spiritual object.  When a child
is born in Mexico, the father weaves the central eye, then one eye is
added for every year of the child's life until the
age of five.
The image shows Ojo de Dios on Quemado Mountain,
San Luis Potosi, Mexico
Liliana copied this image from Wikipedia

It's our free choice time -
we chose to design an Aztec temple to build in the block center

we are now ready to build the temple 

we chose to build a room for our stuffed animals

yesterday we built an Axtec temple
today we are building a robot?

Owen is sharing his ecosystem in a bottle

- story time with Zoe -
it's so much fun!

Have a great week everyone!
Liliana