Saturday, March 24, 2012

And We're back on track!

Cartoon Fractions-Students made a story problem about sharing cookies equally.


This week we worked on the importance of being able to visualize what we read. I read a poem to the students and they made a drawing from what they heard. It was fun to see how they were all different!


Science-Plant projects- Students had to make up a fake plant. They had to list things that their plant needed, where it lived, and how it survived. We made up funny answers like " my plant needs worms and sparkles to eat' 'it lives on a fish' I love how creative the kids are!


Dictionary Skills- Students were put into groups and had to decide on a word to look up. These are our dictionary kites!

Probability bean bag toss- The kids rotated around to different stations and predicted what shape they would most likely/least likely land on.

Math- We are starting addition and subtraction word problems. Science- Plant and animals interaction and basic needs. Reading- Whistle for Willie
I will be gone on Friday, the students will have a sub. Sight word, fluency, and the reading test will be on Thursday.

Monday, March 19, 2012

Seuss Week

I hope you all enjoyed your spring break!

After reading the Lorax

 Story Structure
 Fractions- Students shook the beans then had to make fractions out of them. Example: 3 out of 10 were red.
 We made Oobleck!

 Getting personal with fractions. The kids answered the questions and then we made fractions out of their answers.

 Mystery Tube- The students had to ask questions each day about what was in the mystery tube. On Friday the students guessed that it was Silly Bands!

Plants

Our reading story this week is Amazing Animals  (Click 2 pages for the complete story) Sight Words, Spelling Words. I will be out on Thursday for a Math meeting, the students will have a sub. We are finishing up Fractions this week in math. The test is on Wednesday. Thursday the kids will review topics such as, even-odd, subtraction, and skip counting. In science we are finishing our plant study.