At the Huey!

Huey!

We are awaiting the arrival of the Huey helicopter!

Number Work!

I introduced a new activity during number work today. We have been working on using the strategy to draw a picture to help solve addition and subtraction problems. The students take the dry erase board, marker and bag of numbers to their seat. They pull out one number and draw a shape that many times. Next, they put an addition sign and draw another number from the bag and draw that many shapes. They count on from the first number to the second and solve the addition problem!

CAFE Strategy

Today, I introduced a new CAFE strategy called "Skip the word and come back." I started with a lesson where I wrote three sentences on the board and hid a word in each sentence. I explained to the class that sometimes we are reading and try our strategies and still have difficulty figuring out the word. We practiced using the context clues from the sentence and took a few guesses as to what the missing word could be. After guessing a few possibilites, I revealed one letter of the word at a time. We discussed which one of our guesses would still work by knowing the first few letters. Below are pictures of the sentences covered up and revealed.

Fun w/ the Ipods!

Mystery Egg Day #4

Today, Addy brought in her item for the mystery egg.

Her three clues were:

1. It sleeps in a barn.
2. It has a tail.
3. It eats grass.

The class took three guesses. The first was a horse, then a cow and finally a pig.




The mystery item was.......a horse! Thank you Addy =)!

Sharing Time

Humpty Dumpty!

Our poem this week was Humpty Dumpty. We enjoyed reading a poem that most of us already knew. We picked out words that rhymed in the poem and discussed how sometimes rhyming words have the same ending, spelled with the same letters and sometimes the endings only sound the same but are not spelled the same.

Mystery Egg Day #4

William took our egg home last night and told us he and his family enjoyed reading the story. He brought it back this morning and read his three clues.

His three clues were:

1. It can eat grass.
2. It has a horn.
3. It stomps its feet.

The mystery item was a rhinoceros! The class was able to guess it on the first try. Thank you William! =)

Sharing Time With Books!

We have made it through our entire class list for surfer of the week and have started to share books from our book boxes during sharing time. Today, I pulled three names out of the jar. Dietrich, Samuel and Joslynn shared one of their favorite books. They each read the book and showed the class the pictures. They did a great job reading and I can't wait to see more favorite books being read by each student!

Mystery Egg Day #3

Meredith brought our egg back today with a fun surprise inside.

Her three clues were:

1. It has feathers.
2. It has a big mouth.
3. It swims.

It was a duck!

Butterfly Life Cycle

Today we continued to learn about insects and bugs! We have read a lot of books about butterflies and their life cycle. We reviewed this concept by using different sizes of noodles and placing them in order according to the stage of life cycle it went with. The butterfly life cycle consisted of the egg, the caterpillar, the cocoon and the butterfly!

Mystery Egg Day #2!

Marlee brought our egg back today and had a special surprise inside for us.

Her three clues were:

1. It starts with an S.
2. It has a really long tongue.
3. It sheds its skin.

The class took three guesses. They guessed a snake, lizard and spider.




It was a snake! Thank you Marlee =)!

Insects!

Today we read a story titled What is an Insect?. While reading the story we discussed what makes something an insect and why other creatures are not insects. After reading, we flipped back to the page that told us about the three body parts of an insect. We then completed an activity where we labeled the three body parts of an ant!

Egg Clues Day 1!

Today was our first day with our mystery egg activity. Ethan took our egg home last night, read the book with his family and completed the clues sheet.

His three clues were:

1. It has 4 legs and a tail.
2. It is green and brown.
3. It has a shell. 

The mystery item was a turle! The class guessed his object on the first try today. Great job Ethan!

An Extraordinary Egg!

We have been learning about eggs and the many animals and insects that hatch out of them. Yesterday, I introduced a new take home activity where the chosen student gets to take our enormous egg, An Extraordinary Egg book by Leo Leoni and the clues sheet home with him/her. Their job as a family is to read the book together and find an object around the house to place inside the egg. They are to then write three clues describing the object. The next day, the student will read the clues to the class and the class will have three chances to guess what is in the egg. What an "egg"cellent project!