Nice job, Elijah! Way to read those book...
Tuesday, December 16, 2014
To celebrate both the upcoming holiday and our fairy tale unit, the BUGS are cooking up something special this week!
We started with some Crisco and sugar...
Added in some molasses and spices....
Added quite a bit of flour....
...and then we stirred...
...and we stirred...( because Mrs. Koehn brought her mixer but not the bowl. Oops!)
...we added some eyes and buttons...
...and...
You'll have to...
Saturday, December 13, 2014
On Friday, we held our December Sharing Day, where we read our Reader's Theater plays, shared artwork we had created and also read journals and stories with our audience. As always, we are so appreciative of all who attend and show their support for our learning. Presenting in front of an audience builds so much confidence and also motivates us to do our best reading, writing and creating!
Abby shared her journal writing...
Friday, December 12, 2014
Thursday, December 11, 2014
I am so excited about this fairy tale unit because it isn't just about comparing literature, or learning what elements authors use to create a fairy tale story, it's about so much more! We have read about princes and princesses dancing at the ball and we wanted to learn how! So, today we used our "extra" gym day to call in Ms. Jane from Dance Zone to teach us how to waltz!! Ms. Jane showed us the complicated (but fun!) box...
Tuesday, December 9, 2014
We are blessed with a fantastic PTO at the elementary campus and they provided an amazing experience for our students today! Scientists, specifically biologists came to visit our classrooms today with ANIMALS!! I will let them tell you all about the experience!
I learnd that a armdillo has far.I learnd that a python can atleast get 12 feet by Abby
I lrnd abowt babe alagatrs and snacs. by Ty
I thot the python was really...
Monday, December 8, 2014
Last week we studied the regular past tense ending of "-ed". We discovered the three sounds it makes and we learned what the pattern is for each sound. This week we are going to focus in on words that are very common in our language, but do not use "-ed" to form past tense. Most of these words change a vowel within the word to signify past tense, others change more significantly. Since there is no real pattern to when a word makes these changes, and these are words that students need to learn and know, I am giving the students...
Thursday, December 4, 2014
Tuesday, December 2, 2014
The BUGS want to challenge all the parents (grandparents, dear friends, neighbor Bob...):
How many sounds does the regular past tense ending "-ed" make?
Can you predict when it will make each sound?
Reply in the comment section with your answers! (Guesses are totally accepted but might make us chuckle. We know grown-ups weren't taught all the awesome grammar rules like we learn now!)
(You can email-a-teacher for a hint...
I never did find another awesome app like Educreations, so you're stuck with just a regular ol' video, but I hope it helps to explain tonight's homework as well as the approach we take to laying the foundation for subtracting with two digit numbers using regrouping.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TXA6j-g4RsM
The students really have a great mastery (not just surface knowledge of the process) of the math concepts behind the algorithms and I am thrilled they have such a solid base for learning!
I do have a few students who struggle...
Monday, December 1, 2014
The Royal BUGS of the Room 18 Kingdom went on a quest today to search all the land for regular past tense verbs.
The Royal BUGS of the Room 18 Kingdom went on a quest today to search all the land for regular past tense verbs.
They found many, many verbs with morphological endings (ask! They know what that means!) that change the meaning of the verb to “already happened”!
Tomorrow our quest continues to find...
I forget how many of these I've done. That's what I get for naming them with sequential numbers, huh? In any case, if you're looking for ideas to do at home here are a couple for this week:
Reading: Go on a word hunt! Use any book, newspaper, magazine, catalog, junk mail, anything and see what amazing words your child can find and read! Look for words with two syllables, or plural or for this week - regular past tense verbs (they all end with -ed!) Maybe you want to find words with double letters and see if you can figure...
The BUGS are so excited to start an adventure learning about fairy tales! This comparative literature unit will last for the next six weeks and will help students to understand the different characteristics of fairy tales from other narrative forms of writing and will study this genre not only from a reading perspective but also from the viewpoint of an author!
We will celebrate our learning on Friday, January 23rd with a very special edition of Sharing Day - "Fairy Tale Friday!" More information will come with exact times and locations...
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