THANKFUL FOR THEM!!
As you may have guessed I only had half my
classes with our short week, but I have a message for ALL of my parents. I wanted
to let you know how thankful I am for your children. I could not have asked for
better students my first year!! Each one has taught me different strategies in
teaching, listening and learning. Thank you parents for sharing your amazing
children with me!
Happy Thanksgiving and safe travels!!
1st
Grade LA
We Sang the Song!!!: We practiced our Pig Latin song and tried
REALLY HARD to sing along with the video. They were awesome! We also worked on
more writing and translating English into Pig Latin, then sharing to the class.
We used our connection homework from a few weeks ago for this lesson. We wrote
our connection in English then translated into Pig Latin. Once everyone had
completed the writing, they stood in front of the class individually and shared
their connection speaking in Pig Latin. Everyone in the audience needed to figure
out what they said. It was a lot of fun!! They also shared what they were
thankful for in Pig Latin. First grade was thankful for their: og-day, isiter-say,
other-bray, am-Say, amily-fay, and am-hay.
2nd
Grade MA
Eggciting Measurements: This
week we were measuring eggs, plastic ones, the real ones come later……yikes!! We
are continuing our lesson on circumference and the appropriate tools to measure
it with accuracy. Together we estimated then measured the length and width of a
large egg with centimeter cubes, a ruler, a pipe cleaner and a tape measure. We
discussed how and why our estimates should be getting better with each trial. We
figured out with each trial we used a more accurate way to measure. The
students where then assigned a partner and did the same activity with a smaller
egg. We will discuss our finding next week!!!
3rd
Grade LA
Definitions and Change: Third grade made definition booklets
and wrote in their journals. The definition booklets were hysterical!! The premise,
staple 2 large pieces of construction paper together with 5 almost equal flaps,
when opened, one can read the definition of the story genre written on the front
flap. Directions were given and an example hung on the board…… Let’s just say,
some clearly had vacation on the mind because this was a bit of a struggle. After
having to make a few alterations, we all had a booklet with the genre written
on the outside and definitions with examples written on the inside. We’ll call
that a short week success!! Tuesday, we wrote in our journals about the concept
of change, our ongoing theme throughout the year. They needed to tell me how
our genre definitions reflect change and how the stories we’ve read lately show
change. This will be my bedtime reading over the long weekend.
4th
Grade LA
*Shout out to my 4th grade boys who always remind me to take blog photos at the beginning of class, unfortunately I forget until the end. This week a couple of girls were the only ones left. Next week boys, I promise!!*
Bio Project Continued: I have shared with the students
through their Google Drive the following files; change maker instructions (these are the
guidelines for the project), a due date timeline (tells the
students when each part of the project is due), biography timeline (they’ll use as an
outline for the timeline part of the project), biography summery (they’ll use this as the back
bone for their monologue, it needs to be FULL of information from ALL their sources),
and a work cited sheet
(a very basic work sited sheet, just info on the resources they’ve used and
where they got their images). They have all made copies of the files I have
shared with them. They have also made a “bio HA project” folder and shared it
to me. This allows me to check their work as they go along. They are able to do
the “paper work” part of this project on their chrome books OR on printed worksheets.
The students can type on the copied files and work on them as they read, if
they choose to. I have reminded them they need to be reading their 3 (or more) sources at
home and I will give class time for the other work. As long as they have their
Google login name and password, they are able to access this project form any computer
with internet. If your child was here this week, they should have already
showed me 2-3 sources on their changer maker, it was due MONDAY. If they missed
this week, they MUST show me next Monday. As always, PLEASE contact me if you have ANY
questions!!!! I know if you are unfamiliar with Google Drive some of the “copying,
sharing files and folder” terms may sound confusing. 