Poetry and Collaboration

Room 101 is teaming up with the LTC to create poems!

A special thank you to Mrs. Ardizzoni (Instructional Technology Specialist) and Ms. Carney(Librarian) who are working with us to create a book of poetry as we wrap up National Poetry month!  Over the course of a few lessons we have explored our senses and discussed which senses are on high alert during the spring.  We can hear the birds, see new flowers growing and smell the fresh air and grass!  Selections of books have been shared, such as Aliki's focused on the 5 senses.  

Students worked with Mrs. Ardizzoni and Ms. Carney today to write down a sentence about each sense and will be illustrating and recording thoughts and ideas using the book creator app in our next lesson. 

We are excitedly working towards our finished products!

Back from vacation

We made clay flowers to match the ones we planted and are making books about.

Planting requires us to follow multiple directions.  Now we need to remember to water the plants daily so they will germinate.

We reviewed a number of math concepts today in preparation for our Topic 12 assessment tomorrow.    We know about many measurable attributes.

We can compare length and height. We can also measure weight and capacity.

Working on our math topic review materials.

Today sure was a busy day.  We also listened to a few stories read aloud to us about plants and demonstrated our automaticity in doing sight-word and math fact flash cards.  In our journals we shared about vacation week activities.  Whew........did you work this hard today?!

Back from vacation

We started a new book about planting.

With the helpful hands of parents we are able to do fun projects like planting.  Mrs. Patel helped us plant our own rainbows!

Writing and Editing was practiced with Mrs. Parnell.

Time to make new calendar markers.  May is coming soon.

We are working on a special book about our moms.

Keep Reading During Vacation Week

Mrs. Parnell and Mrs. Hoyt encourage everyone to keep reading during vacation week.

We hope everyone is enjoying a much needed change in schedule and perhaps some outdoor activities.

Be sure to still read every day.  Perhaps keep a vacation week journal about what you have been doing.  Practice math facts and high frequency words.

We will see everyone in a few more days!

Heading into vacation

Heading into our vacation we were still pretty busy yesterday!

Using the scale to weigh various objects.

We continued our work on math exploring and learning about various, measurable attributes.  We have discussed length and height and yesterday worked on capacity and depth.  The scales were fun to play with and the water measuring for capacity was a little messy!

We learned that if the scale is not balanced, two object that should be equal may not be.

Reading and listening to our Let's Find Out Magazine on Earth Day!

Before heading to the library to begin a special project on Poetry, students did some reading and writing with Mrs. Parnell as they read the Scholastic, Let's Find Out Magazine addition on Earth Day!

Earth Day work with Mrs. Parnell.

Students were sent home with a note encouraging them not to let their brains take too much of a vacation!  Suggestions included daily reading, practicing math flashcard words and high frequency words.  

Have a wonderful and refreshing vacation.  When we return we will be working writing a new book, illustrating a book by Lois Elhert and a unit on planting in addition to learning about different types of jobs and preparing for our circus trip!

Look what I built!

We painted like Monet