Snowman Exchange

Last Friday we participated in another video conference! This time we created a class snowman. Then, we wrote a description of our snowman. We emailed our writing to a partner class at Huggins Elementary. Their job was to read our directions to see if they could create our snowman. Our partner class did the same thing...we had to create their snowman just by reading their directions. It was so fun! When we met during the video conference we shared our snowmen to see if we followed the directions correctly. We did a pretty good job! Ask your child about this fun activity!













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Folktales

This week we started a new unit in reading.  We are learning about folktales!  We first learned about 5 different kinds of folktales using the chart below.

 

**Quiz your child on the characteristics of each type of folktale!**

 

We read several stories this week and took notes on the characteristics we noticed. Then, we decided what type of folktale they were.

 

These are a few of the stories we read:

 

Little Red Riding Hood

Cinderella

The Hare and the Tortoise

The Fox and the Stork

Tug of War

Buffalo Calf Woman

The Legend of the Bluebonnet

 

**Ask your child what kind of folktale each of these stories represents!**

 

 

Next week we will read different versions of folktales and compare them to the folktales we have already learned about.

 

Happy New Year!

Happy New Year! I hope everyone had a great winter break.
We started our new year off with our New Year's resolutions...and boy did they do a great job! I was very impressed with their resolutions. This is a group of sweet and thoughtful kids!




The class was also very excited to be back at stations. We have some new technology at stations this week.

We now have iPods at the listen to reading station!



They can listen to the story on the iPod and then complete a comprehension activity.

We also have the iPads at the writing station!



They are making postcards using the Postcards app.

We also have iTouches at the word work station!



They are using some fun apps to practice phonics and language skills.

Reading to someone and Successmaker on the laptops are still favorites during station time!







It was an exciting start to the new year!


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Class Party

This Friday we will have our class holiday party! The fun begins at 1:15.  We will have snacks and watch a movie.  If you would like to sign up to bring an item to our party, please click the link below.  Thanks for your support!

 

Holiday Party Sign-Up

 

 

 

Synthesizing

Last week in reading, we were learning about synthesizing.  I think everyone really got into it and understood what it was all about by the end of the week!

 

This is what we learned:

Synthesizing is...stopping to think about what we are reading and paying attention to how our thinking changes along the way as we learn more about the characters and the plot of the story.

 

We were so good at synthesizing...we were even Synthesis Superheroes!

 

 

 

 

 

On Friday, we took some time out to make some ornaments to help decorate the big tree in the library!

 

 

 

 

Thanksgiving Research

We finally completed our research for Thanksgiving!  The class was very excited because our final project was to create a presentation on the ipad.

We used this app called 30 hands!  It's FREE!

Click the videos below to view their final projects!

 

Anastasia and Reese

 

Austin and Ashley

 

Julian and Jenna

 

Emma and Stephanie

 

Arnulfo and Kylee

 

Georgia and Kameron

 

Gavin and Giacomo

 

David, Cody, Sarah, and Aedan

 

Dezirae and Aaron

 

I'm Not A Turkey!

We had a great time before Thanksgiving break with the I'm Not a Turkey video conference activity!  Ask your kids about it!

We first watched this short video about a turkey that doesn't want to be Thanksgiving dinner.

The class was split into groups and their job was to make a turkey and disguise the turkey as another animal.  They also had to write clues about their turkey's disguise.  They did a great job with this!

At the video conference, we met with another class from Thomas Elementary.  We took turns reading our clues and guessing what the turkey's disguise was.  This was so much fun!  The kids loved it!