Creepy Carrots

This might just be my new favorites book. I had so much fun reading this story aloud to the class. My students each designed their very own creepy carrot and also wrote about how they would stop those creepy carrots from getting them.

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Spookley Read Aloud

Today we read Spookley The Square Pumpkin. What a cute read aloud. As a class, we discussed the main character and setting. My students also identified the problem and solution in the story. Check out the cute Spookley craft the kids made.

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Science Update.....

Over the past couple of weeks in science, we have been exploring animal needs, categorizing animal groups, and learning about some of their life cycles. It has been a fun science unit to teach and hopefully just as much fun for the kids to learn. Here are a few pics of our frog and butterfly life cycle projects. We also learned a couple of really fun songs. Click on the links below to check out the songs. 

Butterfly Life Cycle Song
Frog Life Cycle Song

Doubles!!!!!

This week in math we are learning our DOUBLES!!! Check out these cute DOUBLE DUDES! Students also made DOUBLE books, a memory game, and learned a really cool DOUBLES rap!!! Just a reminder that our DOUBLES quiz is Friday. 

Click to hear our Doubles Rap

                                             

Caleb is so proud of his DOUBLES book!

                                     

Kingston is playing a DOUBLES matching /memory game.

Adjectives

This week in grammar we are focusing on adjectives. My students are learning about adding details to a sentences by using adjectives to describe a noun. Earlier this week we colored lollipops and brainstormed adjectives to describe what our 🍭 looked like and how they tasted. Students also illustrated a noun in their journal and then came up with 4 adjectives to describe their noun. Finally, we used adjectives to describe ourselves and made an "About Me" craft.

E is for EGG

Spelling Time!!!Another week...another vowel! This week we are focusing on the short e vowel. Students were busy this morning making hens and nests full of short e spelling word eggs! We will also be playing some of our favorite spelling games like "Sparkle" and "Slap It" later this week.

Sentence Buddies

Do you know how to write a sentence??? WE DO!!! Check out our sentence buddies. We even learned a fun chant to remind us about capital letter and punctuation.

Learning Is Yummy

We read Peanut Butter and Cupcake! by Terry Border and completed a very yummy "How To...." activity today involving PB&J. Students illustrated and wrote about the steps you need to follow in order to make a PB&J sandwich. Students used the key words FIRST, NEXT, THEN, and LAST to retell the steps to make a PB&J. During this activity, our tummies were growling and I think we were all ready for lunch.

O for Octopus

Last week in phonics and spelling we focused on the short o vowel. Each student made a cute octopus with their spelling words written on the ink clouds and we also did a short o rhyming word sort.

Word Work

Last week we were busy working with short a words and this week we  have moved on to short i words. We are always busy doing fun word activities each day in the classroom but here is a sneak peak at a couple recent activities that my kiddos had fun doing. 

Students went on a short a word hunt around the classroom and then we tallied them up! 

Students wrote their short i words on fish and then colored them. They also designed a fish bowl for their fish to swim in. They turned out dooo cute!