Folktales

Last week the students learned the elements of a Folktale and how to identify the big idea of a folktale.

Folktale Anchor Chart

The students read the folktale The Little Red Hen, After reading the story, the students helped to make an anchor chart to retell the story. Also, the students discussed the big idea of the folktale and made personal connections to the story. 

Math

Last week the students used one to one correspondence to  create real-object graphs. The students also described their graph using comparative language, and answered questions about their graph.

Our class favorite color graph

 The students also created a graphing craftivity using trick or cheesy macaroni.

Pumpkins Big and Small

Last week the students read informational text about pumpkins. After reading the text, the students helped to make a Life cycle of a Pumpkin anchor chart. Afterwards, the students sequenced the life cycle of a pumpkin.

The students measured, weighed, counted seeds, and predicted if their pumpkin would sink or float. They were very shocked to find out that a pumpkin floats. Afterwards, the students created a pumpkin face and recorded the data from their observations.

Spiders, Spiders, Spiders!

Last week, the students read informational text about spiders. Before reading the text, students helped to fill in the sections of the K ( what we know about spiders)  and W ( what we want to learn about spiders from the informational text) sections of our KWL Chart. After the read, students helped to fill in the L (what we learned from the informational text) section of our chart.

After reviewing our chart, the students created a spider and listed some facts about spiders they learned from the informational text.

The class also completed a graph titled "Are you Afraid Of Spiders." Afterwards, the students had to record the data from our graph. I couldn't  believe that the majority of the class was not afraid of spiders!

To finish off the week about spiders, the students really enjoyed making edible spiders!!

 Science

The students learned about the five senses and created a Five Senses photo collage in their science journals.

Owls

Last week, the students learned about the different features of Informational Text. They learned that informational text teaches us facts about a topic. After we talked about the different features, the students helped to create an Informational Text Features anchor chart.

The students students read different expository text about owls to gather facts about the topic.After reading the text, the students helped to create a Tree Map to identify facts that we learned about owls from the text. Afterwards, the students  created their own tree map about owls.