Red Ribbon Week Days 3-5, pumpkins, more place value, and Chick-Fil A

Red Ribbon Week Days 3-5

Wednesday was hat day!

 

Thursday was neon day and Chick Fil A spirit night!

Friday was silly sock day!

 

 

All week we read books and wrote about pumpkins. We made a pumpkin glyph and pumpkin mystery word activity. We also worked on retelling stories. We read Big Pumpkin, Room on Broom and Winnie the Witch to practice retelling. We talked about the "five finger retell" and had a special guest (Winnie) who came and read to us then did a retell on a witches hat.

 

We also continued working on place value. We made a cute candy corn craft that included standard notation, written form, pictorial model, and expanded notation. We also used abaya.com in the computer lab to practice place value.

 

 

Mrs. Hay also had the opportunity to attend a student's cheerleading game on Saturday morning! GOOOO UPWARD!!!!

 

Red Ribbon Week Day 1 & 2 and door decorating

So far Red Ribbon Week is off to a great start!

Monday was CRAZY hair day! Check out our crazy hair.

Tuesday was pajama day! Check out our pajamas....every student came in their pajamas!! We even had matching pajamas! We made a serious picture and silly picture because we were at school in our pajamas!!!!!!!!!

Our door for the Red Ribbon door decorating contest is "Our future is too bright to do drugs" and students are wearing GIANT sunglasses. It turned out very cute!

Check back later for pictures from Day 3, 4, and 5 of Red Ribbon Week.

Skip Counting and Place Value

Last week we skip counted by 2s using our shoes and skip counted by 10s using the handprint wings of the bats. Check out the video below!

We've been working on place value in math. We used concrete manipulatives and moved to pictorial models. We are also working on representing the number in standard form (23), written form (twenty-three) and expanded notation (20+3=23). Students are also responsible for putting the numbers in order from greatest to least and least to greatest. Check out a few pictures from the classroom.

Sports, Science, October Birthday and SPIDERS!

Mrs Hay attended two soccer games last weekend! Goooo Rockets and Giants!!!

We made Popsicles this week in our freezing and melting science lesson this week. 

Happy Birthday to our October birthday!

We read stories about spiders (discussed Author's purpose-to inform or to entertain), made a PIE anchor chart, did a scholastic activity, wrote about spiders after reading informative text/non-fiction stories, spiders mystery word and enjoyed spider cookies and apple juice for a special Friday snack. Writing Pictures and scholastic activity pictures coming soon.....

Apples

This week we had a great time learning, reading and writing about apples. 

We brainstormed about apples on a circle map, organized our thoughts on a tree map and wrote four sentences about apples!

We also described our apples through adjectives, made an apple glyph, and graphed our apples in math.

Real Object Graph of our apples

Changing our real object graph into a picture graph.

Picture Graph of our apples using real object data.

Bar type Graph

We started the day by preparing our homemade applesauce and then enjoyed eating our applesauce for snack (see recipe below)! It made the room smell WONDERFUL!!! 18 students liked the applesauce and 2 students did not like it but they tasted it. We also traveled around the world with "How to Make an Apple Pie and See the World". We used google earth to travel to the different places from the story. We were worn out afterwards because we visited England, Italy, Jamaica, Sri Lanka, and Vermont. :)

Crock Pot Applesauce

3 ½ hours/25 min. prep

4 lbs tart apples, cored and sliced thin

½ cup of sugar

½ teaspoon cinnamon

1 cup water

1 tablespoon lemon juice

1. Mix apples (about 12 cups) with cinnamon and sugar and put into crock pot.

2. Pour water and lemon juice over apples. Cook on low for 6 hours or high for 3 hours.