End of school field trips and FUN!!

Field day

We will make a research buddy that will help us in our research... We are preparing to write a book report!


We will formulate questions about a text before and during our reading for research!

Weather Mobile

We will be talking about weather and how it has changed since the beginning of the school year. We will do many fun activities, graphs and research on weather!

Math- Temperature and Duration activities

For Duration, we will do various activities with the book Tortoise and the Hare!

Math- counting raindrops to match the umbrella to 30! Also, a fun Alphabet Mystery Box game!

Practice spelling number words to 10.

Review sight word puzzle game

Weather Graph

This will be my last blogging week for the school year! We have finished most of the CSCOPE lessons....so we will use the rest of the year for review, assessment, field trips, field day and many more fun and exciting activities!

I will post collage pics of the end of the year activities!

Thank you for following my blog this year!

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Math- Capacity

Social Studies- Our local community problem and solution

Review #'s 11-20 by counting the apples in the tree

Review- Matching capital and lowercase leaves

There are a variety (acorns,apples, leaves, limbs, bark etc..) of objects that come from a tree... We are going to figure out what part of the tree the item came from!!

Continuing expository texts and drafts

Sight word review...Fill the tree game

This will be our last week on studying trees! We will discuss items that come off of a tree and how trees change in Seasons!

Easter Party 2011

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Math- Weight/Mass- We will compare two objects according to weight/mass...also, we will use comparative language like heavier than, lighter than and equal to Science- We will be learning about animals that live in trees... we will be building our own bird nest out of stick pretzels and peeps!

Social Studies- The Problem Solving Process- Using the story The Three Bears... The children will find a new ending to the story using the problem solving process we have learned!

Science- How We Can Classify Animals that live in a tree!!

EL AR- this week we will continue to gather information on trees or animals that live in a tree for our expository text

Eagles

http://www.ustream.tv/decoraheagles Follow along with our classroom and watch the amazing live feed Eagle's nest!

TREES

Science- We will be learning about Trees! Each student will create a tree fact book! This week we will focus on labeling the parts of a tree, How do trees grow, and the life cycle of a tree. This is a book that we will add information to over the next few weeks! We will label our class life-size tree!

EL AR- We will be learning how to research! This is our tree research center! In their tree hand print book, the students will write facts about trees that they learn and begin to look at animals that live in a tree! They students are preparing this research to write an expository draft.

During the last 6 weeks of school we will review all the sight words we have learned throughout the year. The students will paint their "Easter basket" then if they can read the words from the year they can place the egg in their basket!

Social Studies- We will figuring out how to solve a classroom problem by using the problem solving process.

Math- Length and Area- In each tree are animals that live in a tree. They will take the animal and first sort them from smallest to largest then they will find the animal that is the same size as the provided string. We will be using words like: Shorter than, same as etc

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Using the eggs in the carton...work out the additon and subtraction problems that have been provided! What pattern did your chicken lay with her eggs?

Spider ABC order and matching capital and lowercase

Fill your grocery sack with the correct # of healthy fruits!

IPOD touches and begin Spring Journals

Choose an animal....see what # is inside then match her with the correct # of babies

Open the egg then build the sight word that is inside!

This is a review week in CSCOPE and the last week of the 5th 6 weeks!

Spiders

Math- 3 Dimensional shapes

We will sort real life objects into the category that they belong. Spider phonics game- One child will draw a letter and say the sound...if the other children have that letter in their bag they get to add the leg to the spider. The first child with 8 legs... WINS!!

Spider closeup!

Math- Also in math, we will be weaving an Easter basket! We will be reviewing words like over,under,through and between.

Science- The students will dig in the "grass" to find the insect or spider. They will count the legs then sort them accordingly! They will then water color the insect paper to reveal the magic sight word!

Sight word game- The students will put on their insect blindfold...they will swat the fly-swatter and if they can read the word it lands on they get to keep the word...BUT if they land on a spider they lose a turn! The student with the most sight words wins!!

Put numbers in order 1-30

ELAR- Write a story about a personal memory. Focus on the Beginning, Middle and End of the story!

Social studies- How did Stephen F. Austin contribute to our state community. We will also compare Stephen F. Austin and George Washington.

Spider writing and labeling

IPOD touches are here! We will be using them in a workstation this week! The children are SOOOO excited!