Planet Presentations

Our class has been working very diligently on researching planets. Partners worked together to research one planet and then individually each student created an Educreations presentation on their chosen planet. These are fantastic for their first time creating, explaining, and then posting their presentation on their blog! I am very proud of them and can't wait to see more!

Aidan on Planet Mars

Layla on Planet Mercury

Tyler on Planet Uranus

Rylee on Planet Earth

Sienna on Planet Saturn

Logan on Planet Mars

Emily on Uranus

Luke on the Dwarf Planet Pluto

Eriq on Planet Venus

Parker on Planet Jupiter

Using our Schema to Make Connections

Our first comprehension strategy we are learning, is how to make connections using our schema. Schema is all the stuff that is already inside our heads, our prior experiences. If you have never lost a tooth,then it's hard to understand what it feels like to loose a tooth, so you don't have any schema for loosing a tooth. But if you have lost a tooth, then you know what that's like and can make connections to someone who has also lost a tooth. 

In class we are reading stories that we may connect to and then sharing our connections with the class. We will build our confidence with using our schema and making connections and then our focus will be on making meaningful connections...

Corn Maize!!!!

The day finally arrived and our excitement couldn't be contained inside, good thing we were headed to the Sykes and Cooper Corn Maize! Here are the pictures from THE best Field Trip EVER! :)

On the Bus ready to get there already!

We were following the Pink flag!

Here we go...into the Corn! 

It was HOT!!!

It was past our lunch time!

What a Silly group

The Corn Popper was my Favorite!

I think Mrs. Schmidt liked the Corn Popper too!

The Corn Box, no sand...lots of Corn!

 What a Group! We had so much fun on the Hay Ride...
There aren't any pumpkins because they had too much rain in the spring and the first crop of pumpkins drowned out! :(

What a great day at the Corn Maize!

A Weather Vane

We have been so excited to visit the Sykes and Cooper Corn Maize and to prepare them for what they might see, we read books about farms all week and the kids really enjoyed The Big Red Barn by Margaret Wise Brown.

We had great discussions about the vocabulary in this book particularly the weather vane. None of my students knew what a weather vane was...

After reading about a weather vane in The Big Red Barn, I found another book that was all about a weather vane, Bonnie Bess The Weather Vane Horse.

My class was really interested in seeing a weather vane, so I did some more research and found Steve Spangler's science website where they show you how to make your own weather vane. My dad also found a weather vane in his yard (don't ask). :)

We will continue to learn more about weather, how and why a weather vane was used and more about North, East, South, West. If you have heard your child saying "Never Eat Soggy Waffles, they are referring to how I taught them to remember these directional words.

I love when a group of students become interested in something because they first read about it in a book and questioned what it was. I love my group of question askers! ;)

Boosterthon

Boosterthon is a fundraising event our school participates in every fall. For a week the students collect monetary pledges for the number of laps they run at the Fun Run. During the week, the Boosterthon Team meets with our classes to teach mini lessons on friendship and promotes their theme Camp High Five. because of the money our class raised this week, we were able to earn extra recess, bring your stuffed animal day, and a PJ day. The PJ day will happen soon, once the kids decide which day they want to wear PJ's. :) Here are a few pictures from our Fun Run day, the kids all had a great time!

Thank You to all the family members who came out to support our run!