Happy 100th Day of School

We had a blast today. It was so fun to dress up and see all the students dressed like they were 100 years old. We started the morning by making a 100th Day Book Mark and writing our numbers to 100. During Daily 5, students wrote about what they would do with $100! It was interesting to see what students think $100 will buy. We then made predictions and had to determine if we thought we could get to the center of a Tootsie Pop in more or less than 100 licks. We kept track by tallying our licks. WOW! This activity was so much fun. I loved hearing all the students count and lick at the same time! After 300 licks most students gave up and decided to bite into the sucker! During Writer's Workshop, the students wrote about they will be doing when they are 100 years old. These were also fun to read. Students selected their favorite story from the 100th day and that one will be hanging in the hallway. At math, students had to find 100 Hershey Kisses hidden around the room. Once they were all found they had to figure out how to divide them equally between all 20 students. We ended the day making our 100th Day Trail Mix. Thank you to all the students who donated items to make this special for the students. It was a BLAST!

BRRRR.....It's Cold Outside!

It's been too cold to go outside so we have been staying in for recess!

Story Problems

Last week, students used PicCollege to create story problems. They did an awesome job of wrote out the story problem in their math journal before typing it into PicCollege. They had to remember to ask a question at the end. Students had the choice to write an addition or subtraction problem. Here are a few samples...

 

Contraction Surgery

Students pretended they were "Word Doctors" this week. They preformed word surgery complete with rubber gloves and a face mask.  Students used scissors as their scalpel as they cut apart words and created contractions complete with a band aide as the apostrophe. Students then had to read the new words they created!

Book Buddies - Author's Purpose and Math Games

This week at Book Buddies, students were divided into two groups. One group worked with Mrs. Munk on figuring out the author's purpose when reading. They looked at many different books and decided if it was written to persuade, inform, or entertain. The other group read More or Less by Stuart Murphy. They played a dice game where they were adding and subtracting numbers.

Polar Express Day

Students had a Polar Express Day before Christmas break. All week long we had been using the Polar Express book by Chris Van Allsburg during Daily 5 and writing. On Friday,  everyone wore P.J's and we watched the Polar Express while enjoying donuts, hot chocolate, marshmallows, and candy canes. Students also made "reindeer food" during the morning activities. In the afternoon we had our Character Counts convocation where the kindergarten-second graders surprised the rest of the students with a flash mob.

 

Christmas Presents

 

Students made thumb print reindeer ornaments for their parents this year for Christmas. Not sure why I didn't take a picture of a finished ornament but trust me they were very cute. They also made a  video card for parents this year using the "stkr.it" app on the iPod.