I have been so bad at updating regularly! Here is a look back at the past month at school!
In January, our Character Counts trait that we learned about was fairness. We know being fair means being honest, taking turns, and doing what is right for everyone. Here are the students that wore orange that day.
We have been doing more partner reading during reading class lately. It is helping us build skills we need such as helpfulness and teamwork. Here we are reading to each other.
In math we just finished a chapter on shapes. We talked about 2 dimensional shapes, 3 dimensional shapes, vertices, faces, and sides. To decorate our bulletin board we made penguins out of 2 dimensional shapes. We have an oval, a couple rectangles, a triangle, an upside down heart, a square, a diamond, and a circle.
Now we have been learning about money and coins. We practice counting money very hard! I have these reminders up on the board so students can look back if they forget anything about the different coins we have learned about.
Getting back to the penguins- after making the shape penguin bulletin board, we read a Weekly Reader about penguin cams. I then went online and looks for some live penguin cams for us to keep an eye on. I found different ones at aquariums around the country. We earned Penguin Cam time if we had good behavior! Here is the class working on math papers while watching the cams.
In science we learned about space and created some constellations. The kids drew a picture of something then added stars to make it look like the stars were connected. They were all so good :)
Lastly, I read to the class "Snowmen at Night" and we created an art and writing project for the hallway. The students had to start with "If I were a snowman at night I would..." they were all very creative. Some went skiing and ice skating, some drank hot chocolate and 1 even went shopping!
I hope your winter is not treating you too unkindly! Its been pretty frigid here- I hope Spring comes sooner than expected!
~Ms. Anglin
