Friday, March 16, 2012

That sneaky little leprechaun!

The leprechaun came and destroyed our classroom today! 
 He left silly string, where he climbed all over the walls...
 Messed up our leprechaun traps.... (He's so sneaky!)
 Left footprints all over our tables...
And then got away!

The kids loved seeing the mess that the leprechaun made, but were disappointed that we didn't catch him. We wrote some awesome stories about our adventure though! Be sure to check them out when you come to parent teacher conferences on
Tuesday, March 27th and Wednesday, March 28th!

Have a great spring break! Happy St. Patty's Day!

Thursday, March 15, 2012

To Catch A Leprechaun

Today we worked on our higher order thinking skills, building leprechaun traps.
Below are a few of our creations! Enjoy...





 A castle for the leprechaun...
One group of students created a maze for the leprechauns
to go through, before they can get to the gold!
Mrs. Greer at the BMX Bike Show... The kids were super impressed by this!





This week we have also been working on shapes... The students were making shapes out of play-doh as I called them out. When we come back from Spring Break, we will be working on making 3D shapes and recognizing shapes regardless of size or orientation (upside down, flipped over, rotated, etc).

Wednesday, March 7, 2012

Back in the Swing of things

Wow! I can't believe how time gets away from us! We have been hard at work in the classroom, learning subtraction strategies and money in math. In literacy we have been continuing to learn about good sentences, rhymes, and things good writers do!

 We wrote thank you letters to Dr. Ellis and Dr. King, thanking them for teaching us about how to have healthy teeth.
 This is our song to learn the continents of the world. It is sung to the tune of "Take Me Out To The Ballgame"...

 We talked about different words that tell us to subtract and strategies we can use to help us solve subtraction problems. I encourage the students to know several different strategies to solve one problem! This will be important in later years when they have to explain HOW they got an answer.
We have read numerous Froggy books, discussing the adventures that Froggy goes on. The kids really LOVE Froggy! Especially when he does something silly!
The students also had to write an opinion piece, stating what there favorite Froggy book was and why it was their favorite. Notice that this student has written 3 complete sentences, that is the MINIMUM number of sentences that students must write now.

Another Froggy writing. This writing also has three sentences, and has a very detailed picture to accompany the writing.