The monsters have been sent home!
Yes, I sent home the monsters. I’m talking about the drawings and descriptions the students wrote, of course!
The Wonderful Ones had a fabulous Friday finishing up their project for the MUB contest with Fun4theBrain! All scanned pictures have been sent in and we have wrapped up our most successful project of the year.
The children’s writing really rose to the occasion this time. They started with drawings that were completed on Wednesday. They chose a monster on Thursday – one they thought could live and work in the Monsters Under the Bed town, then wrote their description.
Today, they took those descriptions and re-worked their drawings to the final stage. We scanned and uploaded pictures and recorded our stories all afternoon. They deserve a long restful weekend!
Enjoy our newest YouTube video! And thanks to Fun4theBrain for an incredible learning experience!
Fall Fun Day…Finally
Well, after Parent Conference Day and In-service Day, I finally found a bit of time to upload our movie and pictures of Fall Fun Day into the blog.
While we are working on our memory stories, I will have some reporters fill you in on the Fall Fun Day activities… so come visit again!
Celebrating Bobcat Spirit Week
We wanted to celebrate Bobcat Spirit Week by taking photos, having students record video with our new Flip camera, and writing stories. We have finally put together our post and we are ready to share!
Since this is a first time for these students to write a blog post or use the flip camera, your comments and encouragement would be appreciated! Sadie filmed the pep rally and 7 student reporters wrote about their experiences.
Devin reports: Thank you, Mr. Graham for letting the Bobcats come and join us and the Junior Bobcats. Thank you Mrs. Saunders for calling them so they would maybe come to see us.
Abigail reports: We had the Bobcats come last week to our school. We are so happy. My class loves the Bobcats. We love it.
Rachel reports: We had Black and Gold day.
Alex reports: The Bobcat Week was fun. I like the bobcat.
Addison shares: The Bobcat Pep Rally was good. Bobcats are good players. Bobcats go!
Sadie reports: At my school, I had the whole football team come to my school and it was fun. Go Bobcats!
Emma D. reports: The pep rally was fun.
videos, writing | Comments (5)The Pumpkin Project
The Wonderful Ones have worked this week learning about the life cycle of the pumpkin. We read several good books that you can find on our Shelfari list. The non-fiction, or informational texts, helped us to understand about the stages of growing pumpkins.
We added our mind notes to our science journals. We are using a special model to study vocabulary. We work on thinking of examples, non-examples, characteristics, and definitions of our new vocabulary words.
We also enjoyed learning a new vocabulary word this week, tendrils. We decided to investigate the tendrils at the pumpkin patch Monday on our field trip. We are thinking that they work together to connect the vines. We also think we should walk carefully so we don’t trip on the vines that are hooked together with these tendrils.
videos | Comment (1)Tongue Twisters
We participated in an online Tongue Twister ABC project. We signed up for letter T and wrote our tongue twister today. Twenty-five other classes will complete the remainder of the alphabet and mail us a copy of their illustrated tongue twister.
We were surprised to find letter Q tongue twister in our mailbox today! We have our first letter for the project. We will make a book with the completed alphabet, but for now, we recorded our tongue twister and illustrations.
It’s been a busy day! We recorded us singing Miss Mary Mack. Check it out on our wikispace.
We also finished Unit I math book, finished our American Symbols book we were making, finished our SOL 1.1 in our science journal, glued our first word sort, and sang a lot of songs! We had a busy, busy, fun Friday!
videos, writing | Comments (3)Happy Weekend, Wonderful Ones!
Here is a little hint about something we will study next week. See you soon!
videos | Comment (0)This week in spelling
We have _ight in our spelling words this week! Don’t forget you can practice on Spelling City – the link is found on our Sites We Like list.
Sunday Sing-Along!
Hello Wonderful Ones! See you in the morning!
videos | Comments (2)Vote for your favorite Seuss book, then watch our physics video!
Vote here for your favorite Dr. Seuss book.
Sunday Sing-Along
Welcome to the Sunday Sing-Along! Aren’t these fun? What do you think of the beautiful snow? I was very surprised this morning when I woke up. Enjoy the new song, we’ll sing together next week.
Also next week we are going back to our science journals. We will be taking a close look at how things move. Experiments and fun are waiting for us! In the meantime, you can warm up with a sound activity from Crickweb. (Click on!)
See you soon, Wonderful Ones!
