Math, Math, Math

Here are many, many, pictures of the students at Math Centers.

Enjoy!!!

 

 

 

 

Some serious Math Learning going on here.



Little Researchers

The class started researching their zoo animals this week.

We have a lion, zebra, elephant, giraffe, hippo, and gorilla group.

 

They are doing an amazing job.

 

We borrowed some very smart 5th graders to help us.

Here they are looking up information on

a World Book Animal App.

Here they are looking up information on a research site

 called Pebble-go.

 I am so impressed with how great they are doing.

Stay tuned next week and see how they turn their

research into a project.  AMAZING!!!

Lunch with Friends

The students earn tickets for good behavior. 

Then on Friday they can buy different things with their tickets.

 

Adam and Sydney paid 50 tickets to eat lunch

with me and Mrs. Garcia.

So much fun.

Guess My Number

Mrs. Garcia is playing a 100 chart game with the students.

She has a secret number.  The students try to guess her number using more and less.

They love it.

 

CHAMP TIME

Champ Time is an independent reading time where students work independently on a reading comprehension activity.

The students are really working hard

and developing independent skills. 

Texas and Armadillos = Fun Week

We had a very busy week.

These pictures do not hardly capture all that we did this week.

We continued learning about Texas.

We discovered how big Texas is compared to the other states by placing pennies in some of the states and compared the size to how many pennies it took to fill Texas.

Bottom Line:  TEXAS is really big.

 We also learned about the Landforms in Texas.

Did you know that Texas has mountains, prairies, forest and desert?

 

In math we worked on ways to make 6, 7, 8 and 9.

They loved that they got to write on their desk

 

We researched Armadillos in preparation of our upcoming Texas PBL (Project Based Learning).

We researched Armadillo facts. Then we created projects to present these facts.  We made a poster, created a pic-collage, created a Skitch and made a movie using 30 hands.

First we created a poster with our fact.

Here they are creating a pic-collage.



 

Here they are making a presentation about their research.

I am so lucky to get to watch this.  It is adorable.



Here they are making a Skitch about what their animal looks like.

 

This is a Skitch one of the groups created. 

They imported in a picture of an armadillo then used the tools to label its body parts.

 

We are very excited to start our PBL on Zoo animals next week.  This will be a two week long project ending with a trip to the zoo.

 

 

 

 Here these students are reading to a friend.  I gotta say with all the new technology and collaboration we are teaching the students their all time favorite is still just going and reading a book.

 

 

We read fiction and non-fiction books about Armadillos.



Raz-Kids

We had a class set of ipads today.  It gave me an opportunity to teach the children how to use all aspects of Raz-Kids. 

IT WAS AWESOME!!

The kids loved it.

They can have a story read to them, read the story themselves, record their reading of the story and answer comprehension question.  The best part is the leveled books they read are on their instructional level. 

They can also read these books at home. 

Happy Reading!