I can't believe that there are only 17 days left of this school year!!! How did that happen? I can honestly say that I've had one of the best years of my career because of your little ones! I apologize for no blog entry last Friday but the pictures wouldn't upload and the site wasn't cooperating but we've made up for it with lots of great information in today's entry. I think that the photographs speak for themselves of our learning this week but let me know if you'd like to know more:).
Upcoming important dates:
May 7th - Literacy Night at SCE TONIGHT from 7:00-8:00
May 15th - SuperGames
May 25th - Memorial Day - No School
May 26th - Expected hatch day for our chicks!!!!!!
May 28th - Our Class Musical - Begins at 2:40 - You won't want to miss this!
June 2nd - Last day of school and our End-of-Year celebration
Our schedule for next week:
Monday - P.E. Tuesday - Art Wednesday - Music Thursday - Library Friday - P.E.
This is during Daily 5 and one of the things you can do is read. L. and B. are making a reading tower. B. is reading My First Kitten and L. is reading Magic Puppy - A Forest Charm.
This is C.'s shirt that he got on his trip in Kentucky. He tie-dyed it but doesn't know why it's pink and blue. He climbed a rock wall that was three stories high and zip lined down. I put this on the blog because the values represented on the shirt are pretty powerful. Words to live by.
These kids made an amazing contraption that moves on motors. F.'s neighbor is in this picture. So is S.'s brother. They're in fifth grade in Mr. Erwin's class. They made this out of K-Nex and they used their smart, smart brains all this year when it was indoor recess to work as hard as they can to work on this big thing. They also made mini things too. They made it from the bottom to the top. They made a ferris wheel, a swing, and a car that actually moved with a motor and we can make something like this without motors with our K-Nex.
S. made a dance floor and put her bracelet and rings inside of it during Math Workshop. We did this during math games. In math, we are learning geometry so Mrs. McNeal allows us to use shapes to make other things out of shapes.
We were pretending to be mother hens because we are learning about chickens because we are hatching baby chicks. Y. is weighing his egg with teddy bears and on the other side of it is the egg that we were practicing with. We had to take care of our egg the whole entire day and we got a little chick chart to check off if you kept it safe, warm and if you turned it. What we mean by keeping it safe is by not making it crack. They are eggs that have no chick inside.
S. is holding her little baby chick in her egg with a little blanket to keep it warm. You might look in the cup, that is it's nesting material like hay.
C. is seeing how much space her egg takes in the egg cup on her paper.
We were learning about landforms and we made a craftivity of the different landforms. The landforms are islands, oceans, deserts, plains, plateaus, mountains and valleys.
Now these are the eggs have baby chicks in them. On Wednesday night, Mrs. McNeal picked up the eggs which are the real ones with chicks in them.
This is our incubator. It's name is Tillie. This is a picture of the eggs in Tillie. This is the thing that the eggs are going to hatch in. It has to be 100 degrees warm. See the black knob in front of one egg? S. got to turn that knob. Before lunch, S. got to turn the eggs. The name Tillie we got from a book called Tillie Lays An Egg. You'll be able to see the eggs at the program at the end of the month. You can see the real Tillie and her friends at hencam.com
I've added an activity to our day on Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Fridays that the children have embraced! It is creatively writing to an open-ended prompt. Today's prompt was asking the children to pretend they are the mayor of Dublin. What kind of laws would they put in place? One of my little writers had the sweetest words along with a bit of humor to describe the laws she would have. Her journal piece is above but I will also type it for you because it is a priceless insight into how a child thinks.
"To be a good person. Sleep whenever I want. Eat whenever I want.
Have things not expensive. Don't make people kiss:). No fighting.
Do everything buy one, get one free. No jail. Everyone has to have
a real monkey. Don't be a pain in the butt:)). No bad germs. Don't
be mean to people. Don't steal. No littering. Follow rules. Don't be
be stubborn. Look both ways. Don't cut down trees."
Wouldn't the world be a more pleasant place for everyone if we followed these laws?:)
B. and T. are holding their journals. On Tuesdays, Thursdays and sometimes Fridays we write in our journals. We call this creative writing. Mrs. McNeal tells us the idea to write about. Once she told us to write about our wishes. Once she told us to write about our family. This time she told us to write what laws we would have if we were the mayor of Dublin.
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