A New Sleigh For Santa

The children designed new sleighs for Santa!  Santa's sleigh needed to be updated so the children made new and improved sleighs for Santa.  Santa should enjoy all the new gadgets on these sleigh designs!  He has a GPS, hot chocolate dispenser and rocket boosters on some of his sleighs.

Smart Board Highlights

We are learning about graphs in social studies and math classes.  Here we are using the Smart Board to make a bar graph about medals won by the U.S. in the last Olympics!

Understanding Multiplication-----Making sets with equal groups

 

Multiplication has been lots of FUN!  The Smart Board makes math very engaging.  Here we solve enough multiplication problems to finally get our car washed.

Island Discovery!!!

We are using an "island" theme to learn social studies vocabulary, map skills, and problem solving in our writing.  The children made their own island maps which had to include several features such as a river, lake, mountains, peninsula and capital.  They had to include a compass rose, map key and a true scale.  In a writing activity they were given a few items (hula hoop, bottle, gum wrapper, a balloon and some rope) to use to help get themselves rescued.  The children will be writing stories about their islands next week.  More island activities to be discussed in a later posting.

Smart Board Highlight

Here we are playing a game identifying the kinds of nouns

Multiplication was introduced to the students via an interactive Smart Board lesson. 

Persuasive Writing

   We practiced our powers of persuasion last week in writing class.  The children had to pretend that they were a turkey in Farmer Rathbone's barnyard.  Farmer Rathbone was coming out to choose the Thanksgiving turkey.  The children had to convince me that I should not choose them for my Thanksgiving dinner.  We had a lot of skinny, dirty, disease ridden turkeys in the barnyard...or so they said!  Some were quick to give up their friends or siblings.  Such whiners!!!!!  I guess I'll eat chicken for Thanksgiving dinner!

Waterwheel Wizards

The children were divided into groups and given some materials to make waterwheels that would lift a load.  We had lots of fun designing and building them but we had more fun making them work.  Needless to say, we had water everywhere, but we know that it will eventually evaporate!!!

Smart Board Highlight

Here you can see one of our students using the Mobi to control the pen on the Smart Board.  This made our math class a little more interesting.  We also had fun learning how to make nouns pural.

Jack-O-Lantern Jubilee!

We had a lot of fun with pumpkins this week.  We turned five large pumpkins into globes in Social Studies class.  The children had to place the continents in the correct locations using the equator and prime meridian as a guide.  Then they labeled the oceans.

Then we had a fun lesson in math where we estimated the weight, circumference and number of seeds in  several pumpkins.  We worked in cooperative groups to measure and count the seeds in the pumpkins.  We discovered that our smallest pumpkin had more seeds than some of the larger pumpkins.  

Pumpkins were raffled off to the students.   Thank you to Mrs. Snow, Mrs. Pearsall Mrs. Campbell and Mrs. Hood for helping out.

More Smart Board Lessons

In this lesson, children clicked on a window in the haunted house that revealed a noun on candy corn.  We then wrote the plural of the noun on the candy.

We played an addition math game on the Smart Board.  The children rolled the die to place a number on the board and create an addition problem that would yield a greater sum than the other team could create.

More Fun With Alliteration

We made silly skeletons out of Q-tips and wrote some very funny alliterative sentences on bone shaped paper.  Some students used "S" word for their skeleton and others chose to use "B" words and name their skeleton _(Bobby)_Bones or something similar.  These Silly Skeletons are Skipping in a Synchronized Sidekick!

Haunted House Stories

The children are working on writing a haunted house story.  We are focusing on writing a good beginning, middle and end and including lots of details using the five senses.  They are doing a great job and we will share our stories next week.