All About Me
This week we learned all about Mark's favorite things! As you can see from the photo below, Mark loves sports---football, fishing, and especially hockey. Mark LOVES to play hockey, and he is a huge Blackhawks fan! Mark loves Corvettes and collecting shells too, and he even has a green thumb. It was neat to see the sunflower seeds that came from a flower that Mark grew!
Math
We integrated our gingerbread theme into our math activities this week! We introduced the concept of measuring length using nonstandard units such as small and large gingerbread, and we used paperclips to do some measuring as well.
We practiced our graphing skills this week as we played a gingerbread themed game called "Spin and Graph." Using a spinner with different gingerbread friends, we took turns spinning the wheel and graphing our results.
Gingerbread Literacy Unit
The children are loving our gingerbread unit! We have read and compared several versions of the familiar story The Gingerbread Man. For each story, we worked together to identify the characters, the setting, the problem, and the solution. Then we used a simple technique to practicing retelling the main events in each story. Using the words, somebody, wanted, but, and so, we were able to summarize and retell the key points in each story. Using the original story, for example, we were able to summarize the story with this statement: The gingerbread man wanted to escape from the oven and run away, but everyone wanted to eat him so he trusted the fox and he was gobbled right up! Take a peek below to see which versions we have read so far!
iPad Projects
The students have been doing a great job using the iPads. We have completed several projects using different apps on the iPads over the last several weeks. Check out our digital ABC Book and our symmetry posters below!
K-2's Healthy Foods ABC Book
This week we learned all about Mark's favorite things! As you can see from the photo below, Mark loves sports---football, fishing, and especially hockey. Mark LOVES to play hockey, and he is a huge Blackhawks fan! Mark loves Corvettes and collecting shells too, and he even has a green thumb. It was neat to see the sunflower seeds that came from a flower that Mark grew!
Math
We integrated our gingerbread theme into our math activities this week! We introduced the concept of measuring length using nonstandard units such as small and large gingerbread, and we used paperclips to do some measuring as well.
We practiced our graphing skills this week as we played a gingerbread themed game called "Spin and Graph." Using a spinner with different gingerbread friends, we took turns spinning the wheel and graphing our results.
Gingerbread Literacy Unit
The children are loving our gingerbread unit! We have read and compared several versions of the familiar story The Gingerbread Man. For each story, we worked together to identify the characters, the setting, the problem, and the solution. Then we used a simple technique to practicing retelling the main events in each story. Using the words, somebody, wanted, but, and so, we were able to summarize and retell the key points in each story. Using the original story, for example, we were able to summarize the story with this statement: The gingerbread man wanted to escape from the oven and run away, but everyone wanted to eat him so he trusted the fox and he was gobbled right up! Take a peek below to see which versions we have read so far!
The students have been doing a great job using the iPads. We have completed several projects using different apps on the iPads over the last several weeks. Check out our digital ABC Book and our symmetry posters below!
K-2's Healthy Foods ABC Book
Symmetry Posters Using Pic Collage
Thanks for reading!
And thank you all for sharing your children with me each day. I really enjoy working with each of the students in my class, and I am truly grateful to be their teacher!
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