Oh the Things You Can Learn with Cupcakes!!!

We read If You Give a Cat a Cupcake. We talked about how heat causes change. We made cupcakes and wrote and illustrated the cupcakes before and after we baked them.

We made a cupcake glyph to answer the following questions: What is your favorite kind of cupcake? How old are you? Do you like baking?.

We learned about a baker's job and decorated our cupcakes.

We illustrated and order the events from the story.

We wrote how to decorate a cupcake.

Then we ate our cupcakes!

Snowman Skills

This week we had a lot of fun integrating snowmen into the concepts and skills we worked on. In Language Arts, we read The Smallest Snowman and Snowmen at Night. Then we wrote and illustrated text to self connections. We also read There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow and created a story by writing and illustrating the characters, setting, problem, and solution in our reader's notebooks. We also played a word wall game where students found the word I told them written on a snowman. Then they swatted the snowman with the sun to "melt" him. We sequenced the pictures and sentences from our big book The Snowman. We made paper snowman lanterns to response to our poem Little Snowman.

In Social Studies, we talked about put events in chronological order. We talked about what happens to snowmen when the sun comes out. Then we illustrated a snowman melting. Then students used their pictures to tell the order of events to their partner. We also looked at pictures of snowmen from the books we read this week and talked about the different clothing items they wore. We discussed how those items meet our need for protection from the cold. The kids made an prediction that when the sun comes out, the clothing would probably help the snowman melt faster.

In Math, we read There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow and created a flow map of events. Then we used ordinal language to help retell the story events. We also illustrated and labeled the events from the story using ordinal numbers. We The First Day of Winter and then created snowmen glyphs in Pixie 2 about our winter activities preferences. We also analyzed and graphed our data from the glyphs in Excel as a class. We made and drank Snowman soup. Then we created a flow map of events. We wrote the ordinal numbers interactively and retold the steps with our partner.
There Was a Cold Lady who Swallowed Some Snow

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If You Give a Moose a Muffin

Last week, we read If You Give a Moose a Muffin by Laura Joffe Numeroff. We made a class book about what animals like to eat using alliteration. We also worked on sequencing story events.On Friday, we made and ate chocolate chip muffins.

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