The Mixed Up Chameleon

We made a class book after reading the  Mixed Up Chameleon. 

We also read the book Quick as A Cricket by Audrey Wood  to help us get ideas for our individual version.

mean as a shark

sharp as a snake

smooth as a dolphin

hungry as a caterpillar

fast as a cheetah

silly as a monkey

playful as a puppy

as big as a whale

bright as a butterfly

slow as a turtle

little as a lamb

smart as a fox

beautiful as a butterfly

pretty as a flamingo

big as a whale

cute as a cat

furry as a lion

soft as a cat

Learning Chinese

Robert's mom came to our class last week and taught us how to count to ten in Chinese.

We learned how to say the numbers!

We learned how to write the Chinese characters!

We learned the hand movements to make while counting. We watched a video to help us! You can find it on our class web page.

Eric Carle~The Very

B...is for Brooke

Learning About Butterflies

We read this beautiful book about butterflies called A Butterfly Is Patient. After reading this book we created a Bubble Map.

Wow Words

The bubble map above has words and illustrations that describe a butterfly.

My Hungry Caterpillar

You can tell by many of our responses that we have learned many things about caterpillars!

Happy Valentine's Day

A great big Thanks to the Parent Helpers today!!

Math

Some of the math games we have been playing 

Racing Bears 

Double Compare 

One More, One Fewer+/-

Story Problems

We worked on using a Tens Frame to develop quick images of quantities up to 10. This helps with basic facts as students will begin to see that 5+3=8, or 5+2=7 with some automaticity. We will be doing Tile Quick images next week.

Quick Images

Math Game Six Tiles In All

We tried to make as many different arrangements of six

Toss the Chips

      This game focuses on decomposing numbers in different ways

 Developing and analyzing visual images for quantities up to 10

                                           Using Numbers to record how many

We created Plus Pond Problems on paper and on the computer

Pond Problems

The following Pond Problems are created by Friday stay day students. If you would like to log in to our class account click here. You can find the parent help sheet here.

D...is for Diego

Writing Workshop this Week

At writing this week we talked about how writers use words to help readers visualize what is happening in the text.  We started the lessons by pretending to be outside on the playground making images in our minds. I encouraged students to use their 5 senses. We shared with a partner and the large group too.

 I Knew It Was Winter
The students came to the rug and we brainstormed one noun to go after the number word 

 

On different days we went back and took a picture in our mind of what the snowballs were doing? We also added a "when", "where" or "how". Thursday stay day kids illustrated the final piece!
We made a Valentine one too!

On this page we originally had floating in the store window and we talked about how putting a name of the store really gives the reader a better picture in their minds. 

We took the same poem and created a Valentine Poem. We followed the same steps as before except this time, we are inserting adjectives and other descriptors in different parts. You can see the times we went back and added with different colors.

On Monday, I saw one Valentine Fairy with sparkling wings floating in the air shooting Cupid arrows.