Sunday, February 21, 2016

Digital Day Fun!



Digital Learning Day Fun!

The students participated in Digital Learning Day 2016. Digital learning is any instructional practices that effectively use technology to strengthen a student's learning experience. The students enjoyed using all the different devices to reinforce and extend their learning of many skills. The students also learned how to create using different apps. The day was totally paperless! Here are some pics of our digital day...
Building words with our Touchtronic Letters

Building Sight Words with our Osmo

Daily 5 Digital Style

Word Study using Kahoot

Morning work with QR Codes

Digital Writing using Augmented Reality Color Alive Pages

Guided Reading 

Guided Reading 

Singing out favorite song about
3d shapes. Click on the math page to see it!

Student scan big book to see book come to life with
video of a student retelling events from the story

Experiencing Virtual Reality using Google Cardboard
Experiencing Virtual Reality using Google Cardboard

President's Day Fun!


 The students read Grace for President to learn about Character Analysis.


The students also learned about the current President and completed an activity about President Obama.



The students also made themselves into George Washington and used an app called Chatterbox to tell what they would do if they were president. 




Electoral Process

Vote Button 


 To close out President's Week, students learned about the Electoral Process and participated in nominating and voting for a Class President. Congratulations to Valerie Acevedo for winning our Class Presidential Election!


Math Fun
The students are learning how to identify and describe 3D shapes. Check out some of the activities the students completed this week...
 
Students sort real life object into categories of Cylinder/Not A Cylinder


Students sort real life objects according to their 3D shape

Students record 3D shapes in their math journals

To end the week, the students collaboratively worked together to create a cube out of marshmallows and pretzel sticks.  




TEAMWORK MAKES THE DREAM WORK!




Sunday, February 14, 2016

We Love Learning!



We Are 100 Days Smarter!
The students had so much fun celebrating 100 day of school! We collected over 130 can goods to support the local food bank.

100 Day Dress Up Fun


What can we create out of the number 100?

How Many Licks Does It Take To Get To The Center Of The Tootsie Roll Pop?


A Love For Learning!

The students are continuing to love learning new things each day. The students have been working on manipulating letters and blending two consonants together to make words identifying sight words, and writing sentences.

Watch Out For Super "E"

Students did great fixing mistakes and writing sentences

Students are also learning how to retell a story by identifying:
Character
Setting 
Events- BME
Problem/Solution
Students retelling The Red Rose by acting it out

Students using retelling rope to retell during Guided Reading Groups
Students using Graphic Organizers to retell story to a buddy
Math Fun!
                    
Students use playing cards to write and solve addition sentences

Students use a life size number bond to decompose numbers

Students created addition and subtraction problems in their math journals


Valentine Fun!
Will the candy hearts sink or float?
Graphing candy hearts and analyzing data
Sweet image