Hello Families, I apologize for no blog entry last week but this one should more than make up for it:). When your child comes home from school totally worn out, you will understand why when you look at these photographs. Here is a snapshot of the learning in Camp Buckaroo for the past two weeks.
In Word Study, we have worked on the hunk-and-chunks of /oi/ and /oy/ and the "bossy r's" of /ir/, /ur/, and /er/. In Writer's Workshop, the children have been writing on topics of choice as we are in between studies. It's amazing to see what and how they choose to write. Some are writing their own sequels to the graphic novels of Lunch Lady and Baby Mouse. Some are creating dress designs with shoes and jewelry to match. They are labeling the parts of each and at what event each dress should be worn. A few are still enjoying writing letters to each other and others are writing fantastic stories with engaging characters and lots of details to draw all of us in. Our final study will be nonfiction writing. In science, we have been learning about the three states of matter and the properties of each. When we return from break, we will be engaging in many science experiments to help us better understand solids, liquids and gasses and how they change. In math, we have finished up our very lengthy study of tens and ones. I am so proud of each and every child for persevering through this study to gain a better understanding of our base-10 system. We are now moving on to measurement and then geometry to finish the year. In Reader's Workshop, the children have continued how to make strong predictions based upon what was read to a certain point and to also make meaningful connections to help them to better understand the story.
I hope that all of you have a very relaxing and enjoyable break and I will see your little ones again on March 23rd. When we return, here is our schedule:
Monday - Music Tuesday - Library Wednesday - P.E. Thursday - Art Friday - Music again
It was a snow day and we made snow angels. The boys in the background are playing a snowball fight but we couldn't do snowball fights close to where other people in our class were building a snowman. When we were done with the snow angels we looked at them and they actually looked liked real snow angels.
This girl is making a little snowball to make it into a big snowball to make it into a snowman.
This is the picture that Mrs. McNeal took of all of us with our sleds, saucers, and snowmen. The snowmen in the background have already melted. One of the girls in our class brought snow dye to put colors on our snow people.
These boys are kind of laying in a couch in the snow. It was a giant hole. They are in the snow.
This girl is holding a bottle of water from our science experiment about matter that we are learning about. Matter is solid, liquids, and gasses. Solids have a shape and only force can break it. Liquids take up the space of whatever container they are in. Gasses are invisible and they float around us.
Mac Barnett came to our school! He came on Monday and taught us about a lot of things about some of his books. He was really funny. Mac Barnett is super cool!!! He is one of the first graders' favorite authors. In this picture, Mac Barnett is reading one of his books called Oh No!
When he comes down from his sleep he sees a white paper in front of his face and it says, "FEED ME!" and it scares him. The paper wants WORDS which is food to the paper! Everytime he said, "FEED ME!" he rips off the paper. Some kids asked, "Do you have a girlfriend?" and he said, "Yes, her name is Taylor." Everybody laughed like crazy.
On Thursday, we celebrated Snowmen's Birthdays. We are scooping up snowballs from a basket of them and putting them into a basket on the other side and if they dropped their snowball on the way they were disqualified (DQed) but they got to get back in line. P.S. They weren't snowballs. They were cotton balls.
This girl is trying to make the cutest snow fort instead of the tallest. The rest of the class tried to make the tallest snow fort.
This boy won fourth place in the tallest snow fort contest and someone else tied with him.
This is a snow fort but it doesn't look like a fort. Table 5 won first place and came in 1st. Some of our friends said that it looks like a big blob of marshmallows and toothpicks. We tried to make it squares and then connect them together but that didn't work because it fell over so we just made it a blob.
This girl won second place so she got two tickets. Her fort looks like a dog standing on a cloud.
This fort fell over five times but she got third place in the snow fort contest anyway!
This boy won fourth place and he used a lot of marshmallows.
This boy is getting wrapped up in toilet paper to make a snowman. It was really funny! We were wrapping one person at our table with toilet paper.
This is a picture of all of the snow people wrapped up in the toilet paper and they are all decorated. The middle one is the funniest one because it has huge eyes and a funny nose.
I haven't sent book orders home all year so I will be making up for that by sending a few for this last part of the school year. It is vital that your child read over the summer months. This is one way to stock your child's home library if you choose to. Please know that this is purely optional but I wanted to extend the offer. Your child will be bringing home the order form as well as directions on how to order online if you choose to. There are many other forms on this site as well if you choose to order from another Scholastic form. This is also a great way to restock our classroom library as our class gets points that can be used to order books for our room. If you decide to order, try to have your order in by March 23rd. I will send the final order in on Wednesday, March 25th.
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