February has been full of fun!

In February, we had a wonderful Valentine's Day party but also had a lot of fun learning new things!

To show our learning on expository text, we created dioramas.  The students then went on a gallery walk to see all the different types of expository text.

 In Social Studies, we studied different landmarks around the United States.  We had fun writing about the landmarks and creating them out of play-dough!

The Alamo

The Statue of Liberty

Mount Rushmore

 Bring Your Own Technology (BYOT) was a big hit!

Students reading books off of Kindles and Laptops.

To become better readers, we learned how to make inferences while reading.  We really enjoyed making inferencing bags.  Students put secret items in bags and then wrote four clues about their object.  Other students had to infer what was in the bag.  We had a blast!

January - Bringing in the New Year

Whew!  The month of January flew by, but we had a lot of fun this month.

We spent a lot of time playing different math fact games - Around the World, Race to 100, and Addition Doughnut.  I have challenge every student to memorize their addition facts and on March 1st we will have an addition "competition" and we will be competing to play in the addition soccer game.

We have also become amazing authors.  We wanted to share our stories with others, so we invited Mrs. Honea's class, Mrs. Crisp, Mrs. Peterson, Mrs. Boerckel, and Mrs. Simmons to our Reading Cafe.  We decorated the tables with tablecloths and flowers.  We even had a menu.  Students read their wonderful stories to our guests.