Frogs

Our research project this week was on Frogs.  We did our research from non-fiction books, the internet, and magazines.  (I forgot to get a picture of our KWL-know, want to know and learned-chart.)  The first two pictures show our research paper and the graphic organizer we used to organize our writing.  We extended our frogs unit to math and did addition and subtraction using the song, Five Green and Speckled Frogs.  Our fiction book for this study was Jump, Frog, Jump.  The last two pictures show our main characters chart and the chart we used for main idea.  Coming up-Butterflies!

April Fool's Day

Is Mrs. Carter tricky or what?  I told students that a finger paint company had contacted me to test their finger paint.  The only color they had left was brown.  I told them I did not have any finger paint paper, so paper plates would work just as good.  When I started giving each student their spoonful of "finger paint", they commented that it smelled good and that it looked like chocolate pudding.  I told them I would tell the finger paint company those things.  It wasn't long before one student snuck a lick, and the other students screamed out that he had tasted finger paint.  I said, "What!!!!!  Put finger paint in your mouth........April Fools."  Then I handed out spoons and more chocolate pudding to eat!  The rest of the day, students were trying to play tricks on me!

Who Took The Cookies From the Cookie Jar

HANDS ON Subtraction!!!  We acted out Who Took the Cookies from the Cookie Jar with real Cookies (cereal).  Then each student wrote down the story problem on their individual white boards.  What a fun way to learn subtraction.

Spring

What authors and illustrators these students are becoming.  After making a circle map of some of the signs of spring, they put their favorite four signs on an accordion book.

Duck on a Bike

What a fun way to start spring out--by reading the story about Duck on a Bike.  There were so many great comprehension skills that went well with this book.  The students loved acting it out making the onomatopoeia sounds as well as what they said to duck.  Each animal had its own point of view (another comprehension skill) about a duck riding a bike.  We discussed the main idea of the book by doing the who, what, where, when, why, and how chart.  The students did not realize that they were using adjectives when we created the bubble map.  What great writing they did when we did a text to self connection writing of when they first rode a bike.