Snow Delay....Spring Break?????

Another 2 hour late start...due to snow.  Feels like we should be getting ready for Winter Break, not Spring.  Anyhow, today we finished our Wizard of Oz unit with Emerald City Day.  We all wore green and only used green pencils, crayons, or markers to do our work:-)  We finished the day with green ice cream sundaes. 

Wednesday we did some color mixing.  Kids are great....all we did was mix colored water and they thought it was the coolest trick they had seen:-)  

Our Mixing Observations

Then we had two bags of skittles and graphed the rainbow.  We counted them out, compared the two amounts, and made math story problems and number sentences.

Today we also sent report cards home.  I really like to be able to go over it with students before they show it to their parents.  The 2 hour delay almost made that impossible, but I fit them all in.  I give the report card to the student.  Show them what scores to be looking at and what they mean and then we share our opinions and I read the comments to them (if they can't on their own).  Then I still dread the potential phone calls....hopefully spring break starting today will keep them to a minimum.  What do you all do with
the report card situation?

Happy Thursday,

If I Had Ruby Slippers/Sneakers.....

 We started our mini-Wizard of Oz unit, from Abby@The Inspired Apple.  It is so fun, and I am always amazed by the amount of students who have never seen such a classic movie!I learned that many of them are not fans of musicals, unfortunately they have to endure my love of them:-)

This was the scene when we came into our classroom this morning.  Our animal friends were in shock from the scene!  (Hopefully none of them had anything to do with it.)









After we finished the movie, groups shared popcorn and discussed favorite parts, characters, scary parts, settings, etc.

 

Then we made ruby slippers or sneakers and thought of what we would do if we had our own pair.  We cut out a pattern for our shoes and used it to trace onto a red piece of paper.  (Practicing tracing and cutting is hard work for some of us, but go to practice.)

Finally we put all the pieces together and added red glitter.

Love the Nike Swoosh:-)  Also the long list of American Symbols his shoes would take him to see.

"I would tap my shoes three times so I wouls shrink.  I will go live in my Lego houses."

 

Happy Monday....3 more to go!
 

Readers Ask Questions

We started working on questioning during reading.  We read I Want My Hat Back...a hilarious book about a bear looking for a his hat.  We made questions before, during, and after reading.  Then went back and decided about whether or not we had found the answers to our questions. For such a simple text, repetitive text we got a lot of interesting questions. 

Next week is another four day week....and then Spring Break!!!  We will be doing a mini-Wizard of Oz unit, from Abby@The Inspired Apple.  We continued with questions about the book....which was hard because many of them said they already knew everything about it...because of course, the movie is always just like the book! 

And the marbles and tubes have finally gone home.  This afternoon, everyone who had their work done got to have freestyle time with the tubes and marbles.  It was so fun.   "Epic fail", "Yessssss", could be heard around the room.  Overheard another kid say, "hasn't this been the best day, yet?"  But I am 50 kinds of glad all the craziness is moving out!



 

This ramp starts at the back of the lamp...over the cubbies....

down to the ground....and loops through rolled up paper

Of course they wanted to take tubes home....

Goodbye Tubes!

Happy Thursday,