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Happy Holidays!
1st Grade: Word Ladders:
It was a week filled with magical anagrams! We took a picture walk through our story from last week to remind us about our anagrams. Then, it was all about creating their anagrams with a word and a clue for each of them. They words also grew with page one starting with 3 letter words and as they completed the packet they worked their way up to six letter words! They used their cutout letters to help them manipulate and find the anagram. This was a packet that allowed them to work at their own pace. We had two friends that made it to all the way up to our six letter anagrams!
We will move onto a new lesson after break.
2nd Grade: The Tale of Despereaux - Movie Time:
This week we finished our movie. We continued to discuss the differences from the book to the movie. They changed a lot. This is what helped us lead the discussion on why they might change stuff we talked last week about comedy from an added character and this week they added on to add some more action and excitement. Last week they saw a silly character added and this week they saw a character was actually missing. Some characters back stories are completely changed and others having a completely different personality. So much change, but it was left up to them to decide which one they enjoyed better or made a stronger connection. The action of the movie took a lot of my friends to the movie side.
3rd Grade: A Modern Legend:
This week we studied a modern legend of the Edmond Fitzgerald from November 10, 1975. We started with a brief discussion on understanding the mood of a poem or a song. To keep the end in mind, I shared with them they would be creating a drawing of the visual image of the poem I would read to them. Their image needed to reflect the mood of our poem. We discussed colors that might be used in a happy, cheerful story verse a sad story. Next, they listened to the poem. They quickly discovered that the mood of this poem was extremely sad. We then listened to a ballad of the poem. This led us to talk about differences a song might have to reflect a mood. While listening to the story they were already artists at work with the drawings. They were challenged to leave no white space left from the paper when they are done. We went into a great discussion of what makes this true event of the sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald a legend. This quickly led us to the unknown part of the story is how the ship went down and this is where some details may not be all facts within the story as we don't have that information to include in the story. As the students, completed their drawings we started to watch a documentary on the Edmond Fitzgerald which we will continue after break.
4th Grade: Timeline:
This we the students created their visual timeline. After printing their facts, they assembled them in the correct order. Next, they added a title and enjoyed having some time to personalize it. The last part was selecting some pictures throughout the life of their person to add some visual images. They did a great job finding a wide range of pictures.
We will continue with this project after break.
1st Grade: Attributes of Shapes:
This week we turned our focus on identifying attributes of shapes. To prepare for our new game where we will be looking for a common attribute to link a set of shapes we worked through several activities on working with this skill. We started slow and using us as the objects. They had to identify why one set of students were standing on the rug and others were on the outside. An example of some attributes they identified were common colors, having shoe laces, wearing glass, or maybe having a Grinch on their shirt. The next day we did the same activity, but used a variety of different objects. We also increased the challenge by having them each take a turn in setting up the attribute for the other students to guess.
We will continue to work with this idea after break.
2nd Grade: All About 3D-Shapes:
This week we changed gears to discussing the attributes of our 3D-Shapes. To work with this concept, we looked at an attribute poster of our 2D shapes and then compared it to our 3D shapes. This allowed them to visually see what was the same and what was new for us to identify. This led us into a discussion of comparing the difference of a pyramid to a prism Next, our students had some fun and got to build some 3D-Shapes. They each took a turn identifying the attributes and identifying the numbers of faces, vertices and edges from their shape. We had some extra time that they got to play a game of Kahoot identifying the names of 3D shapes. They quickly showed me that they know the names to a lot of our 3D shapes.
We will continue to work with this after break.
3rd Grade: Puzzling Puzzles - 300's Chart:
This week the the students continued with their 300's chart challenge. Students created answer keys for their puzzles as a check to make sure their puzzles were designed correctly. This week we shifted gears an it was time to complete our classmates puzzles. The students enjoyed when they took on the role of the teacher and had the chance to grade
4th Grade: Logic Puzzle:
Due to activities around the school, we only met on Wednesday. The students continued to work through the logic puzzle. They are at the point where they are seeing the process of reworking the steps to search for the additional information that wasn't available the first time through. We will save these to revisit after break.
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