Special Visitor :)

How lucky are we to have a principal who visits our classroom to read to us and teach us about interpretation through the April Book of the Month, The Farmer and The Clown. 

Flashlight Friday

So much fun reading with our flashlights today!! 

Egg Drop Experiment

26 of our students created containers where the eggs survived the fall! We are so proud of all our students for participating and being so smart and creative! 

Wild and Wacky Wednesday

What a fun way to support our 3rd, 4th and 5th graders who are taking the FSA! It was a wild and wacky day! 

Places Worth Stopping and Jotting in Nonfiction

We have been doing a lot of stopping and jotting with our nonfiction book club books. We are teching our students to be  flexible thinkers as they read. We are encouraging them to be open to learning more about their topics and revising their thinking when needed. 

We also learned that we can make our own captions or add to them by putting together what the author tells us, what the picture tells us and our own thoughts.

 

Nonfiction Book Clubs

We are so excited about our nonfiction book clubs. Today we learned that nonfiction readers monitor for meaning and learn what the author is trying to teach us. We determined the main idea of a section of our book and the supporting details. We learned to jot about this by writing "The big thing I learned today is ...." And then included examples "For example, for example..."

We then discussed our jots with our book club members. 

Author Visit

It's not every day that we get to have a previous student come share her amazing writing with our kids! Our kids were so impressed and inspired from our little author visit! Thank you for coming to share your wonderful work with us! 

Holiday Happenings

Day 3- Polar Express 

Our week would not have been complete without a ride on the "Polar Express Train" and cookies with Auntie Claus! What a fun day! 

Holiday Happenings

Day 2- Grinch Day! 

We had so much fun reading the story How the Grinch Stole Christmas and writing about a time we had with our family that made our heart grow 3 times it's size! 

Holiday Happenings

Day 1- Snowy Day in room 124 :)! What a fun day! We read snowman books, made a snowman craft, played snowman games, and even had a snowball fight :).