Starfall

Hey Parents,
I hope you have found time this year for your student to take advantage of the site Starfall. Much of the site offers resources for beginner readers for FREE! This week during computer time many of the students have been reading or listening to these short plays from the site. As a class we read the play "The Lion and The Mouse".  Click the link below, and it will take you to the short plays so if they have not had a chance to listen to them they still have a chance to do so:

  http://www.starfall.com/n/level-c/plays/load.htm?f

 

Mrs. Barnes



Videos for teaching Long "U" sounds

Hey Parents,
We have been learning all about the different letter combinations that make the long "u" sound. Here are some of the videos I have been using, let your students watch them again to reinforce the skill at home. Click the link, and it will take you there:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fDZIxKI-Gxk&list=PLtPoovv4KdsIk1ypWd9VlKPEawNWOI-PS

 



Videos for Teaching the Long O Sounds

Hey Parents,
We have been learning all about the different letter combinations that make the long "o" sound. Here are some of the videos I have been using, let your students watch them again to reinforce the skill at home. Click the link, and it will take you there:

 

 



https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7QmDRUPrxWs&list=PLRobggFI-BzRuACiGobLhwodD3qbtUTWH

 

 

Mrs. Barnes



Videos teaching long I

Hey Parents,
We have been learning all about the different letter combinations that teach long I. Here are some of the videos I have been using, let your students watch them again to reinforce the skill at home. Click the link, and it will take you there:

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UQwZ81K4FPQ

 

 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7_8yz11Pqc&list=PL483C64CD3022F4E7

 

 

Mrs. Barnes



Becoming Authors

This week we have been busy reading "If Your Give a Pig a Pancake" by. Laura Numeroff. It is a student favorite. We also read "If You Give a Moose a Muffin". We then created our own "If You Give a _____ a _____". We did one as a class, then as a group, finally as an individual. Our group/ class versions were done very simply on big paper folded into eighths.  You can see below the class one then the group ones.  The top was done as a class. On the group one they got to add pictures. Then the last image is some individual ones.

 

If your child would like to try this activity again you can right click on the picture below and print the image! Enjoy!

 

 

Rosa Parks

 

In January and going into the beginning of February we had a big focus on black history.  One of the people we studied was Rosa Parks.

We learned a poem about her, and read a short story. We discussed how she made a difference in so many lives. We also wrote about what she did. We all agreed she was really brave. We finished it off with making a craft of Rosa Parks sitting in her bus seat.  We are so fortunate to have such fabulous people make such a  difference in this country.

Life as a Crab

 

I am behind on posting. We had a story a little bit ago about a Hermit crab finding a new home. We concluded the story with a writing activity of what we though it would be like if we were a crab.

Polar Express

The Polar Express has to be one of my holiday movie favorites. We had such a fun time. We read the book, and watched the movie. We enjoyed the movie with Hot Cocoa and cookies. Huge thanks to Richie's mom and Starbucks for providing our Hot Chocolate needs!

 

 

We finished up the day talking about the story structure of Polar Express (Setting, characters, problem, and solution). We wrote all about it on our sparkly Polar Express Trains!

 



Holiday Craft Day

The Holidays just flew by didn't they??! We had a blast learning about holidays all around the world. We also had a fabulous craft day. I am sure you saw many of the ornaments that came home from that day, but look below to check out a few that we did.



Sight Words- Fry 100

I am always trying to find new ways for them to practice their sight words. Our most recent venture has been a cut and paste "Guess The Fry 100 Word". I love how this also helps them with their coordination with the cutting and fitting of the letters. These are the words that you see come home every week on the top of the homework packet. Tell them to be a cheerleader and cheer the words for you! They will know exactly what to do!

Jellyfish

 

Jellyfish are one of the things I love studying with my students and was part of our ocean unit. We made Paper Mache fact and opinion Jellies (top picture). We had studying about them discussed the difference between facts and opinions and recorded. This is a great stepping stone for us as later this year we will be doing animal research.

 

We also have been working a lot on math story problems over the past 6 weeks. We did many ocean themed math scenes. The above ones were of a subtraction problem where Sea Horses got stung and died by some Jellyfish!

Author's Purpose

Hey All! I am having to play a little catch up here on posts. In November and going into early December we were learning about the ocean. I like to tie what we are learning about in science or social studies into reading, and math. Above you can see our Author's Purpose whales. We learned about how author's have three different reasons for writing; 1. Persuade 2. Inform or 3. Entertain. We read a short selection together as a class about an aquarium. We decided that the reason for the author writing this selection was to inform. We made little Author's Purpose Whales explaining what the author informed us about!