Friday, April 20, 2012

Silly Stupendous Students Studied Superbly

This week we...
  • have been learning about plants. 
  • planted plants. 
  • looked at seed and leaves.
  • went to computer lab and typed cinquain poems that we wrote. 
  • researched a Sandy Beach animal. 
  • wrote Haiku poems. Haikus are Japanese poems with 3 lines. The first line has 5 syllables, the second has 7 syllables and the last line has 5 syllables. 
  • continued Daily 5. 
  • made a star fish. 
  • celebrated Alex's birthday! 
  • went to the library and did a scavenger hunt! 
  • learned about open syllables and closed syllables. Open syllables end in a long vowel sound. Closed syllables end in a consonant and have a short vowel sound. 
  • measured in centimeters and meters. 
  • measured in feet and inches. 
  • measured using Miss Hawthorne's feet, our feet, and Miss Hawthorne's friends' HUGE feet. 
  • started reading Mrs. Frisby and Rats of Nhym. 
  • have been learning to make inferences from what we read and know. 
  • learned how water is absorbed in the roots of the plants and travels up the stem into the leaves through the veins to help a plant grow and survive. 
  • wrote Acrostic poems about the Sandy Beach. 
  • learned there are 100 centimeters in a meter. There are 3 feet in a yard. There are 12 inches in a foot. 
  • closed the classroom library until further notice due to a page being torn out of a book. BIG SADNESS. 

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Thursday, April 5, 2012

We've been busy bee's since we've been back from Spring Break!!

Miss Nichols ( our student teacher) has been doing a fabulous job in full teach for the last 2 weeks!

We have...
1. learned about the Sandy Beach for our MARE unit. Start those dioramas at home!!! :)
2. learned about crabs and jelly fish. We MADE our own crabs and jelly fish.
3. learned about waves and tides and did an experiment.
4. continued Daily 5 (we love our stations)
5. learned division! Ask your kids what it means to divide. What is the opposite of division?
6. learned geometric solids.
7. made ANGRY BIRDS with geometric solids. This was our favorite!!!
8. learned contractions. "I am--I'm , we are--we're..."
9. continued working on making inferences in story and story structures.
10. been learning open and closed syllables.
11.  celebrated Aria's birthday!
12. made oceans in a bottle.
13. salt water painted.
14. learned about pronouns.
15. learned about characters and main ideas in stories.