Earth Day work!

Thanks for continuing to rock mystery readers!

 

 

Since Earth Day is Saturday we read a book about how we can help save the Earth and had a group conversation.  Then everyone got to write how they wanted to save the Earth.  They then had a chance to present their work to their friends :) .  They've become great confident presenters this year!

Telling time bump!

We've had lots of fun working on time this week!  We played a bump game where we got to move all around the classroom identifying if the time on the card matched the time written.  They LOVED all the action and every time "bump" was called out they thought it was hysterical that they got to move to another seat.  Overall this was an exciting and fun way to practice telling time!

 

Animal LIfe Cycles...

We had a terrific Tuesday!  We reviewed how to write the time.  We discussed where the hour and minutes go around the colon.  Then we practiced writing the time our practice clock said it was!

 

 

 

We also continued learning about animals today.  Everyone got in groups and made their own life cycles of the animal they chose!  They are hanging in the hallway for everyone to enjoy.  We did chickens, snakes, butterflies, turtles, flamingos, and a few others!  They did a FANTASTIC job and I'm very proud of all the effort they put forth to make sure it was level 5 wow work :).  Please take a second at some point to come see what they did.

 

Working on Telling Time...

To start our Monday out with some fun we decided to be a bit crafty in a mathematical way :).  Everyone had an opportunity to make their own clock.  Once they were done we got to use them to play a "what time is it" game!  The clocks they made work (moving hands) so once they decided what time their friends clock said they set their clock to the same time.  It was great practice and we all had a great time.

 

 

Donors Choose for our class...

I started a Donors Choose for our class.  If you'd like to see the site and/or donate to it here is the link!

https://secure.donorschoose.org/project/wobble-while-we-work/2532849/?rf=page-siteshare-2017-04-ifproject-teacher_4418813&challengeid=20927597

If you donate during the first 7 days please use code LIFTOFF to get your donation doubled :)

Show me your evidence...

Thanks again (as always) to all of our Mystery Readers!

 

 

The big question I keep asking is "how do you know this" or "show me the evidence".  Instead of just giving answers we are not working on telling or showing where the evidence to prove the answer is.  We've started this with using our reading books.  Working on partner groups they've been working on answering questions about the story but then they have to write down the page that the evidence can be found.  This has taken lots of patience from them because sometimes they say "but I just remember it".  I have to remind them that sometimes you need to site evidence and give proof for your answer.  They are getting better and better at this!