We're learning about space. We focused on day and night. We created a tree map of things associated with day and night. Then we sang Mr. Sun and Mr Moon. Then we discussed the differences in the two songs and created a venn diagram to compare/contrast day and night.
Then we read My Day: Morning, Noon, and Night. We created a list of night activities. Then we created a good night class book of what we like to do at night.
We also created a list of day activities and created a good morning class book of what we like to do during the day.
We also graphed whether we liked day or night better and analyzed our data.
We read The Mitten by Jan Brett. The students LOVED this story! Everyday they asked me to read it several times. We illustrated and wrote about an animal from the story on a mitten.
We sequenced the animals from the story on a mitten and then labeled the pictures with the animal name and ordinal number for the order they went into the mitten.
We read The Missing Mitten Mystery and created mittens. Then we labeled them by counting by twos. We used our mitten to practice skip counting by 2s. The students also created story maps for The Missing Mitten Mystery in their reader's notebooks.
We have been learning about ordinary people who make an extraordinary impact in their communities. We learned about four famous African Americans: Rosa Parks, Ruby Bridges, George Washington Carver, and President Obama. Then we created a bridge map to help us remember each person's contribution to their community.
We reviewed two dimensional shapes and their properties. We read The Shape of Things and then took a shape walk around our school and recorded in our math journals all the shapes we found. We took pictures on our walk. We read The Greedy Triangle and then we used the pictures to create a tree map of the shapes we found.
We watched The Number Crew: Shape Escape on Discovery Streaming and then found a picture of a shape in magazine, cut and glued it on our paper, and then wrote about that shape and one of it's properties.
We read A Really Good Snowman. Then we discussed estimation. We estimated how many cottonballs would fit inside a picture of a snowman. Then we put the cotton balls on the snowman and counted to find the actual number. We did this two more times. Then we wrote about what we learnd about estimation.
Some penguin fun we had this week:
We made a penguin brace map and discussed the parts and their functions of penguins.
We created a penguin tree map to show what we learned about penguins.
We conducted an experiment to see how penguin feathers keep out water and how their blubber keeps out cold. We put Vaseline on our hand and put it in the water. The water bubbled up where the Vaseline was. Then we put one hand in a blubber (Crisco) glove and one straight in the ice water. We experienced how their blubber keeps out the cold.
We read Tacky the Penguin. Then we illustrated a penguin and used cubes to measure how tall our penguin was. Then we made them into a class book.
We made penguin glyphs to collect data about our class. Then we used our glyphs and graphed the results and wrote about our data.
We learned about Martin Luther King, Jr this week as well as why being different is good. We read a story called Being Different is Being Special. Then we examined in small groups a white and brown egg. We started a double bubble map to compare/contrast the two. Then we cracked them open and looked at the inside and finished our map. We learned that even though people are different colors on the outside, we are the same on the inside.
We discussed what peace looks and feels like. Then we wrote a poem about peace and made hand print doves.
We also read the poem A Box of Crayons. We talked about similarities and differences among people. Then we illustrated self portraits and colored our crayons.
We watched a Discovery Streaming video that showed us about MLK's life from boy to adult. Then we created a Venn Diagram to compare/contrast our class with MLK.
We listened to MLK's I Have a Dream speech. Then we wrote about our own dreams.
