Highlights of Week3

We kept track of our thinking as we tried to answer the question, "What do mealworms, or any living creature, need to survive?"  We very quickly narrowed it down to food, water, air and shelter.  

Students worked in small groups to brainstorm the needs of mealworms.  Answers were recorded in their scientist's notebooks!

During math we each worked on coming up with "equivalent names" for a family member.  The kiddos learned a whole bunch of Mrs. Pols's silly nicknames.....

Here are the magic ingredients for our mealworms' diet.  Each child got a container with two mealworms, the food and an apple slice for moisture.

This week we learned to practice our spelling words in a different way - "Rainbow Words!"

On Thursday we spent part of writing workshop sharing our small moment stories with small groups.

All week we worked on genre in reading workshop.  Students are learning to identify books that are fiction, nonfiction, realistic fiction and fairy tales.

During math on Friday we used calculators to skip count and solve broken calculator problems.

More author share!

On Friday we took some time to reacquaint ourselves with Chrombook procedures.  Students "joined" our Google Classroom and then chose from activities such as Everyday Math games and Tumblebooks.  

Everyday Math has a great site for playing games and skill building.  All students brought home login info this weekend if they want to try it at home.

Friday afternoon's writing mini lesson was on using punctuation when we write.  We used punctuation cards to help identify if sentences we heard used a  period, exclamation point or question mark.