End of the Year

We had lots of fun on the last day of school.  Everyone got to choose which desk they had for the day.  We sang and played games and did Calendar Math.  We ate pizza, chips, fruit, cookies and cupcakes and drank fruit punch and soda.  The school year went by quickly and I can't believe it's over.  I'm sending my babies to third grade!

I hope everyone has a fun summer. I think about everyone just about every day, wondering what exciting things are happening.

See you in the hallway!

Children's Book Week

Another fun day!  One of our book week activities was to make a class mural depicting our favorite book.  After narrowing down the choices, we as a class chose Magic School Bus.  They liked it because you can learn science from it while being entertained.  Each student was assigned a different part to add to our mural (which was done it chalk.)  I'm loving the school bus, planets, characters such as Liz and Mrs. Fizzle, the sun and stars!  The class really came together to make one big picture instead of lots of little ones. It's amazing what they can do when they put their minds to it.

There is a contest and the winning class gets snow cones!  I love snow cones and I HOPE WE WIN! (OK, I did do my part. I wrote the lettering and drew the circle for Jupiter.  The rest of the credit belongs to the students!)

RESEARCH PICTURES

 Some students who don't seem to have a shy bone in their body suddenly get shy when the camera is out.  Ha!  Very cute presentation!

 Fabulous game show!  I'm so proud of these students who worked together and got creative!

 Thank goodness for friends who do things so you can do them too!  Good job boys!

 Blizzard group

 Tsunami group

 Earthquake group

 Volcano group


















Wildfire group

Tornado group

RESEARCH!

Students went online and used books to research natural disasters.  Then they got into groups and put together a report on a natural disaster of their choice.  We had lots of fun presenting to the class and getting videoed.  I promised them I would put their project online so here they are!

Wild Fire Group  This group did the entire project by themselves with no help from me at all.  In fact, they found information about wild fires on their own also.  It wasn't one of the disasters we had on our list.  They were also the first to present so each helped another group.  Great job!

Tsunami Group  These students each wanted to research floods, hurricanes or just a lot of water.  I talked them into researching tsunamis.  They did a very good job.  What hard workers!

 Earthquake Group  These boys were just about to present when they decided they had an idea.  Someone else presented and they had just about 5-10 minutes to get this together. I was impressed when I saw their game show and even more impressed with their acting abilities.  They need to be in the movies!

Tornado Fun (NOT)

It's been another busy week and especially with our CBA's and the tornado.  It was loads of fun sitting in the hallway for three hours.  Actually we were just out there for a little over an hour.  After school the rest of us who were still at school spent another thirty minutes or more in the hallway. What a scary day. Rest assured that I did a lot of comforting and encouraging.  I had some students crying, some scared but quiet, some who thought it was great excitement and others who had no idea what was going on.  They all read a lot of books while waiting.  I am just so grateful that we were safe. Mrs. Mingle and Mr. Burger did a fantastic job of encouraging the kids and telling them that they were doing what they needed to do to be safe.  That made my class feel better about the whole thing.

Fifth graders at our school had wonderful science projects about the food chain.  They brought them to our class and shared with my class.  I told my class that THIS is what they have to look forward to when they get in the fifth grade.  They absolutely LOVED it.

 The fifth graders sat at our desks and my class went around to look at the different projects.  There were all kinds of animals and habitats were made from all different sorts of materials (pictures, small toys, play-dough, construction paper, stickers and even water,)  The big kids shared how the food chains worked and about predators and decomposers.

Here is P explaining to A about his habitat. I remember him from when P was in the first grade!

So simple but I loved her owl and this is the project that summed it all up for me.  Looks like A is enjoying it too.

 See how interesting and on-task them all are!

These kiddos need to come and teach my class more often!  Thank you Mrs. T's class!

Social Studies Role Play

I have quite the group of performers this year.  Each group of students made up a quick skit about how to deal with bullies.  I had so much fun watching them that I had them do it again so I could take pictures!