Earth Day Projects!

The students were so excited to share their recycling projects! They did a great job and were adorable! Thank you for your help and support with the project!

bank

pencil and pen holder

 

 play house



robot

planter

recycling diorama

cardboard replica of Mrs. Morgan

trash barrel

elephant

robot

pencil holder

bird feeder

vase

guitar

bird feeder

musical bottle

planter

ball toss game

volcano

playing the ball toss game

Some Updates

Hi Families!
We have been having a nice week back at school learning about Earth Day and how we can care for the earth. Projects have been coming in and they are adorable! We are all excited to share them tomorrow morning!  We made adorable Earth Day books that are hung in the room. On each page the children wrote some facts about harming and helping the planet. We also made (some are not finished) Reduce/Reuse/Recycle mobiles. We learned about how earthworms are helpful and good for Earth!

Unfortunately when I came back from vacation our lima bean seeds had taken a turn for the worst. A few had started to sprout but they became very moldy. I had to throw them away but told the kids we would try again!

 

 

We are finishing up our unit on opinions and persuasive letters. The students did such a fabulous job writing their persuasive letters. Today we revised and edited a letter with a partner. We will finish them tomorrow and "publish" them. I hope to get them on the blog with the students reading them aloud as I did with their opinion pieces.

 

 

I can't wait to see and hear all about the projects tomorrow and I will be back to post some pictures! I will also be sending home a notice soon with two important end of year dates for our classroom. A writing celebration (during the school day) and an end of year slide show celebration (after school, 6pm).

 

I will leave you with a challenge for your children! Again, please email me the answers. 2/3 correct earn a little prize.

 

1.  Name the 3 R's!

2.  Tell something that can help Earth.

3.  Tell something that harms Earth.







Plants, Literacy Centers, Reading and Writing Workshop

Our class has been learning about plants this week in Science. We are observing our lima bean seeds each morning and recording what we notice in our lima bean journals. Today we labeled the parts of a plant in our science notebooks and then made a craft activity to go along with it.

 

Here are a few pictures of some literacy center work!

 

Using story cubes to identify character, problem and setting and then write a story to go along with those elements!

 

 



Reading and listening to stories at our own personal reading level and answering corresponding comprehension questions on the computers. The kids love this!

Working on some activities such as building long e words, sorting words, counting syllables in words, and putting words in ABC order at the Word Work center.

 

 

Reading our leveled readers and interest books from our book bags at the Read to Self center!

 

Here are some pictures of what we are working on in Reader's Workshop including an anchor chart we used to refer to for discussion when comparing and contrasting books in our book clubs! We have also been adding to ongoing "Vocabulary Word Banks" for important words related to our topics. The students identify words that they think are important to know when learning about their topic, write the word, and illustrate. Then we add it to the word bank. :)

 

 

 

 

Lastly, here are some pictures of students working hard at writing persuasive letters as well as sharing one of their favorites. They are doing such a great job! I am so impressed at how so many of them have moved beyond persuading people for things like toys and moving towards things that can help others!