We've Read This. Have You?

We've Read This. Have You?

Part II of our Read Anything Good Lately? leads us into making connections with reading materials we have read and classifying the reading material as nonfiction or fiction. 

Click the title of our book to read the story we wrote: We've Read This. Have You?

Read Anything Good Lately?

This week in KINDER and 1st grade we are discovering various types of reading material and classifying the types as nonfiction or fiction.

Stay tuned for next week, we will be creating our own ABC Book!

Book Club, Book Club! We want Book Club!

It's Time to sign up for Book Clubs!
Book Clubs are open to 3rd, 4th, and 5th grade during lunch.

This years books are:

3rd Grade:

Rump: The True Story of Rumpelstiltskin

4th Grade:

We the Children (Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School)

5th Grade:

Fear Itself (Benjamin Pratt and the Keepers of the School)

Sign Up Closes September 10, 2014

Bubbles Bubbles Bubbles!

Bubble Trouble is here!!!

This week we are exploring bubbles!
Some of the questions we want to answer are: what the shape are bubbles, what does a bubble feel like, how to create a bubble solution, finding out what a bubble does, discovering if it is it easier to blow bubbles or have the wind blow bubbles.

We started out making predictions about bubbles using the questions from above. After our predictions were charted, we read the book Bubble Trouble by Joy N. Hule. The students immediately made text connections and charted information the connections.

The teachers will continue the lesson (part of the science curriculum) in the classroom researching bubble solutions, making the solutions, and observing bubbles.

Gettin' the Hang of School

 Transitioning from lots of Mommy time and carefree days to a day full of sticking to a schedule and teacher time can be rough.
Today we created a T chart and on one side we charted about some of the things we miss about not being at home with mom and threw ourselves a mini pity-party.

To help us get out of our funk, we read Bad Bye, Good Bye by Deborah Underwood and illustrated by Jonathan Bean. Throughout the book the students made connections with the character and his family.

After reading the book, we charted the good things about being at school.

We walked away knowing that change is hard and we will have tough times but we need to be open to good times  that can come into our lives.