What Teachers Make Final Moviebk2 0001

Comment about a story

Tortoise and the hare story one child says I think I can oh wait wrong story. :)

Burning the Midnight Oil

This week we talked about Nocturnal Animals.  On Monday we talked about what it means to be nocturnal. We learned that some animals stay up all night long and sleep during the day. We learned that bats, foxes, owls, moths, mice, hedgehogs, skunks, raccoons, koalas, and spiders are all nocturnal.

The 2-5th graders are working hard to figure out a nocturnal word for every letter of the alphabet.

The K-1 children brainstormed different animals that they could remember.  I tried to draw them... key word being tried!!!I tell my student's that they need to try their best, so I do as well.


Here are two science logs featuring drawings of nocturnal animals:

I wrote a book then made it into little books for my first and kindergartners. 

 The first graders had to draw the pictures.

 The kindergartners had to color in my pictures.

They all had to write "a" and "is" on every page.

 After they read the book, then they had to show me their favorite  page.

These are some of their favorites.

 We talked about owls and we made this chart

 You must check out Deanna's Owl Unit for other great ideas :)

We made a graph of our favorite nocturnal animal. I used our name tickets (2x4 slips of paper) to create this graph.  We talked about which had the most votes, which had the least, and which ones were the same.

Nov 12th

Here is our Jack in Pieces.

Winner

I am actually a winner!  I can't say I never win anything, but I rarely win anything. I visited Growing Kinders and there was a contest about what we do for Thanksgiving. What I do is to have the children make a turkey and on the feathers, I have them write chores they can do to help out their families. I do this same type of thing in the spring for mother's day using flowers. :) That idea came from the "other" Mrs. R. (sometime I will share about the "other" Mrs. R at my school!)

I am looking forward to sharing my prize with the students :)

Elemtastics November 3

Elementastics came for their last time  this past Wednesday. :(  They really went all out this week though!!! The K-1 children made bath salts:

 We also put baking soda in balloons and then vinegar in the bottles and tipped over the balloons:

we watched as the balloon expanded :) We were amazed!!!

Spiders

This week we are going a little creepy crawly with spiders!!!

The library assistant also is a local celebrity and does balloons.  She made this AWESOME spider and web. This photo doesn't do it justice at all :(  It is so cool!!!!!!

We figured out how spiders don't get stuck to their webs. We used Deanna Jump's Simple Science Vol 1 for this experiment.  We also used some of the activities in Spiders. I also made this graph:

I printed spider letters for the question and answers. The spiders were cut from the Circuit we received free from one of our secretary's when she bought hers.