HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY!
We started our week on Monday morning with a special guest author, Eloise Greenfield. She shared her beautiful poetry with us. She is an author of over 30 books.
Language Arts was full of LOVE this week! We had lots of skill work and much of it was centered around Valentine's Day. We just LOVE LOVE LOVE their hard work!
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| Elianna is working on writing her address and telephone number for this week's spelling test. |
David and Maddie are making their buddy a Valentine card.
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| This group is making something special for mom and dad...it's a surprise! |
We worked in our Scholastic News magazines and learned MORE facts about Abraham Lincoln and George Washington.
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| Lila is making a fun Valentine craft. |
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| Raquel is working on Mountain Language. |
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| Jillian is practicing his "j"s in the "Handwriting Without Tears" book. |
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| These readers have grown so much this year! They know how to decode unknown words with ease. |
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| Our listening center book this week was in honor of Valentine's Day. |
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| Page is building words that have 2 vowels together. She knows that when 2 vowels go walking, the first one does the talking. |
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| Evan is on a long vowel word hunt. |
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| In guided reading we read about some more famous Americans and worked on comprehension skills. |
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| Lila is looking for fiction and non-fiction books from the Scholastic book order and is sorting them into categories |
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| Finley is graphing data that was collected from the class using our "flat selves" from "Flat Stanley". |
Griffin is tallying and adding coins with a money review game.
Starfall.com...we read a Valentine story and made valentines.
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In guided
reading Ms. Lorfing had a group read about the famous American Jane
Goodall. We discussed her important contributions to the education of
chimpanzees and the destruction of their habitat. We also talked about
non-fiction book features that make reading this type of genre easier to
read.   We reviewed money with a game called "Race to Draw". As we moved on the game board we collected coins and when we landed on "BUY" we used the price list to create a creature.   In social studies we celebrated Black History Month by learning about more famous Americans... Harriett Tubman, Dr. George Washington Carver and Jackie Robinson.       In computer lab we played valentine games on primarygames.com and abcya.com In hands on science we made lava love lamps. We learned that oil and water don't mix and that when adding alka seltzer tablets bubbles caused the water and oil to mix causing a chemical reaction. Glitter and confetti added a fun valentine touch!   A few weeks ago on a very warm February day we took advantage of the 70 degree weather and celebrated our BIG achievement as the class with most contributions to the food pantry during the "Feed the Need" week last fall. We had a blast swinging on the swings, playing basketball, soccer, hula hooping and just running free!      
Spelling
Words- Week #16 Feb. 17-20 2015
Phonics
Skills: digraphs- “sh” and “ch”
1.
brush
2.
shelf
3.
wish
4.
short
5.
flash
6.
check
7.
chin
8.
inch
9.
such
10.
branch
Challenge Words
11. marsupial
12. Aborigine
13. boomerang
14. because
“Surprise the Teacher
Word”
15. ???
Next week we'll begin a new theme and travel to the Land Down Under! Australia here we come!!
Sara and Carey |
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