Math Snowball Fight

Today was the perfect day for a snowball fight!

Click the link to see a video of our indoor Math snowball fight!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-yWuC38NYVg






We also did a STEM activity and finished up making "snowflakes" on our tables.

Halloween Bash

Here are a few pictures from our Halloween celebration! What a fun day we had!!

Some of our craft stations

FLASHLIGHT Friday

How fun is FLASHLIGHT FRIDAY?!

Every Friday we turn out the lights in our classroom and turn on our flashlights for Readers Workshop! On a rainy day like today it was extra dark. Everyone reads quietly and we all have a lot of fun. This is a fun way to promote reading at home too!

Schema

One of my favorite "craftivities" that I do... In Readers Workshop I explain how Schema is your background knowledge or all the stuff you already know about. I have the kids create self portraits and then I "open their brains" so all of their schema can pour out! They scream when I cut their beautiful portraits but they LOVE it and it really helps them remember an obscure word like schema.

See if you can guess who is who...

Ok this one is a giveaway

Writing Boot Camp

Writing boot camp has begun in our class! 

Here some soldiers are ready to begin!

We started with step on of the writing process Brainstorming

Here some of our soldiers are beginning their writing

We worked on complete sentences and incomplete sentences but working together to figure out what they were missing or what they had that made them complete. 

Next we help each other edit because we don't leave a man (proper noun) down (they should be capital) 

Finally we army crawl back to work

Writing Workshop Play-doh Day!

Today we began our writers workshop. Iintroduced  the writing process to the class. 

I modeled the important steps

But instead of jumping right into their stories I had the kids move through the writing process with playdoh!

Brainstorming

They had to think about what they were going to make before they even began

Drafting

They were given a few minutes to start their project

Conference/Edit

They met with their partner to help give them suggestions on how to improve

 Revise

Back at it to add more detail 

Publish

Table 1

Table 2

Table 3

Table 4

Table 5 

Tomorrow we start our "Writing Boot Camp!" We will work hard on the basics of each writing step to make our writing really great! I'm so excited to share this new "boot camp" writing process with them I think they are really going to enjoy it and it think it will defiantly help improve their writing! 

RED

Our RED (Read Every Night) folders start this week! Click on the link for some great tips.

http://www.cultofpedagogy.com/reading-homework-tips-for-parents/?utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=postplanner&utm_source=facebook.com