Needs/ Wants Goods/Services

Today we reviewed Needs and Wants and Goods & Services

We followed Flo on her trip through town. Her first stop is at a music store. She bought a CD (a good) and it is a want. She continued through town and her next stop is the car wash.  We debated about the car wash being a need or a want.  We concluded that in our climate with the salt, it would be a need, unless it was all of the time. :) She then traveled to get new clothes. Clothes are a need. Then she went to  get her hair cut.  We also decided it was a need.  We didn't want to be cousin it!
Finally she made her way to the pizza place.  We decided food was a need.

Space Travel

Today the K-1 children illustrated two words- Earth and stars. (Photos to come, oops)

We also listened to these books:

 The older children traveled to Mercury.  First thing we did was to to figure out our weight on the planet.
The 2 & 3 grade children came  up with these facts:

 The 4 & 5 grades came up with these facts:

 They also traveled to Venus. We figured out our weight there too!

Blog Hop 2010

I was on the search for new Word Work ideas and came across tons of ideas.  The one that I chose was using my old Vitamin Water bottle caps to make a new center for the students.  We give the students five new words each week. I write vowels in red and consonants in blue. When my students are done making their words, I have them take a photo of their work.

Now on to my blog hop.  I asked several people to come hop along with me.  Check out all of their wonderful recycled items that they use in there classrooms.

Luanne http://putyourwholeselfin.blogspot.com/

www.whattheteacherwants.blogspot.com

Kathleen at http://growingkinders.blogspot.com/

http://seedsofnoledge.blogspot.com/

A Day with Dr Jean

I spent the day with Dr Jean!!!!!

I was lucky enough to see Jean again. Check out another workshop I attended. Here is another workshop I went to also. They were different years and different topics. :)

Having fun and learning with Dr Jean. Photos to follow :) many ideas to share.

Space Words

We began discussing space words.

Space Words:

Girl Student: "5"
Me: "5?"
Girl Student: "5 4 3 2 1"
Me: "oh, countdown!"

 For the K-1 children, I came up with the words, day 1 we just glued these in.

 On one of the pages, we colored and cut out the rocket.  Here was the example. (It is the Other R)

Moving and Groovin!

We are in motion for the next few weeks. We gathered different balls from all of school.
We brainstormed all of the balls we could think of in 3-5 grades.  This is what they came up with:

We had two different groups of 3rd-5th graders figure these out.

My favorites: cheeseball and meatball!


We described them, we classified them, and we talked about their attributes. For our hands on, we picked one of the balls. We drew our ball in our science log. Then we described it. Finally, tested them out. We used different blocks as ramps and predicted and tested how far they rolled.