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Artists have been learning about shape and color, exploring these elements of art through a variety of different materials and experiences.

• Kindergarten is creating a rainbow cityscape collage demonstrating the order of colors in the rainbow (ROYGBIV) and will be learning about warm and cool colors to create an oil pastel and watercolor resist inspired by winter mittens.
• 1st Grade is learning about Henri Matisse's painted paper cutouts and is painting paper, using their color mixing exploration knowledge, to cut out geometric and organic shapes for their own collage.
• 2nd Grade is finishing their mixed media collages inspired by the work of Mexican American artist Carmen Lomas Garza, showing a tradition or experience they have had with their family. We will be learning about and creating artwork inspired by Brazilian artist Romero Britto's colorful and playful artwork.
• 3rd Grade is learning about tertiary colors, a combination of primary and secondary colors, to mix colors to paint a 12 section color wheel and creating a collage using the color wheel.
• 4th Grade is creating an outer space theme resist artwork, using oil pastel and watercolors, to demonstrate the use of analogous colors to help create the illusion of 3D forms.
• 5th Grade is finishing their chalk pastel drawing of snowmen in a winter scene, applying what they have learned about value and shading to blend colors and create the illusion of 3D forms. We will be learning about atmospheric or aerial perspective, and painting landscapes using monochromatic tints and shades to show distance.

Kindergarten through Second Grade:

• Character Studies: The Abominable Snow Teacher
• Nonfiction: Penguins
• Identifying glossary, index, table of contents, captions
• Beebots: Programming directions with code to navigate a maze

• Practice internet safety and how to help in our online community

Third Grade:

• Keyboarding Without Tears
• Destiny Online Database: Locating books by call number in our Hosmer Library
• Biographies
• Game Design using coding i.e. IF-THEN-ELSE conditional statements in rule creation

Grade Four and Five:

• Game Design using coding i.e. IF-THEN-ELSE conditional statements in rule creation
• Using Bookcreator to create a tutorial for the game designed in teams

• Kindergarten I can play instruments!

• Essential Questions: How do people play instruments together? How do people make music on instruments? Using hand percussion and pitched percussion we will explore rhythmic and melodic patterns.

• 1st Grade I can decode familiar songs with sol la mi pitch patterns.

• 2nd Grade I can decode songs and rhythms with quarter notes, paired eighth notes, and half notes.

• 3rd Grade I can decode do, re, mi with pitch accuracy. I know how to properly hold a recorder, and know the parts of a recorder.

• 4th Grade I can decode sixteenth note patterns and sing them in a round.

• 5th Grade I know how to properly hold a recorder, and the parts of the recorder. I know how the parts of a ukulele. I know how to read syncopated rhythms.

Congratulations on an amazing Winter Concert to all choir, band, and orchestra students! Thank you to parents for coming out to support our young musicians; it means so much to the performers and to our community!

Choir rehearsals and instrumental lessons have resumed this week (1/2).

It is not too late to sign up for choir if you are interested! Here is a link to the form to do so.

Another exciting opportunity for BAND STUDENTS is The All-City Band, starting this month.

The All-City Band is a group of musicians (4th-12th grade) that are currently in the Watertown band program. Students will learn new music, get an additional hour of practice time a week, and will perform in a Spring Concert. The All-City Band meets every Wednesday from 4-5 pm, starting on January 24th at Watertown Middle School.

If you have any additional questions please reach out to Mr. Max Thew at maxwell.thew@watertown.k12.ma.us.

Students in all grade levels are learning and exploring some great skills!

In grades 3-5, students have finished up with the overhand throw starting a unit of handball! This is a fast paced throwing activity that is very similar to ultimate frisbee! The students had so much fun and it was a great cardio game for the students to practice the skill of throwing and moving to open space.

Also, before break the students wrapped up their throwing unit with one of their favorite throwing activities called Snow Globes. The students build a snow globe with hula hoops and then try to knock the other teams structures down using the overhand throw!

In grades K-2, after teaching the students the roll and underhand throw, we then continued on in teaching them the overhand throw! The students participated in an activity called Battleship, where there is a mat placed on the floor with one bowling pin in each corner. The students have to stay on their “ship” (which is the mat) and throw the ball to try to knock the pins down on the other teams’ boats. Once your pins are down your ship is sunk! So much fun!

These students also played a smaller version of the Snow Globe activity! They loved the building and tried to knock the snow globes down.

Below is a quick synopsis of the skills we have been working on in class!

K-2

• Underhand Throw

• Overhand Throw

3-5

• Overhand Throw

• Finding Open Space

• Teamwork

¡Feliz enero! We hope you enjoyed the holiday season and your kids had a fun and restful break.

Hosmer Spanish teachers:

• Jelena Bogdanovic (Señora Bogdanovic) jelena.bogdanovic@watertown.k12.ma.us
• Robyn Long-Navas (Señora Navas) robyn.longnavas@watertown.k12.ma.us

• Heather Olafsson (Señorita O) heather.olafsson@watertown.k12.ma.us

Kindergarten: Kindergarteners have been learning about a kite festival in Guatemala and practicing describing the colors of kites/barriletes. 🪁 For their end of unit project, they colored kites four different colors and will share them with the class.

First grade: Students made books of their school in which they drew pictures of what they do in each place in the school. For example, “In the music room, I sing. En el salón de música, yo canto.” 🎤🎵 We have been practicing reading our books and will share them with the class. Then, they will be sent home and can be used as a resource to practice reading Spanish at home!

Second grade: Students are getting ready to create their own school day schedule to share what classes they’d like to have in the morning, in the afternoon, and what their favorite class is. Ask your child: "What classes do you have in the morning? /¿Qué clases tienes por la mañana?" and "What classes do you have in the afternoon? /¿Qué clases tienes por la tarde?"

Third grade: Students created projects "All About Me/ Todo sobre mí" with information such as their birthday, their age and what they like to do in their free time. Students are sharing these projects with their classmates and presenting them to the class.

Fourth grade: Students made booklets about themselves with information such as where they live, where they are from and their personality. They are getting ready to record videos to describe themselves.

Fifth grade: In fifth grade, not only have we been practicing answering questions about ourselves (speaking in first person) but we have also been working on describing others (speaking in the third person). Students have been working on describing their classmates and then guessing which classmate they think it is based on the descriptions.