A Trip to The Butterfly House

The students enjoyed their trip to The Butterfly House. They sure learned a lot of new and interesting things about butterflies. They observed butterfly behavior and learned more about animal life cycles. This week the students worked on a personal narrative about their trip to The Butterfly House. Here's a few pictures:

Butterfly Fun

We've been learning a lot of animal life cycles. The students loved watching our caterpillars grow and make a chrysalis. Then when arrived at school on Monday morning we had butterflies! We observed them all week and let them go on Thursday afternoon. Here's a few pictures:

Math Review

Chapter 2 was all about number patterns. The students practiced skip counting by 2, 5,and 10. The students also learned about repeated addition and arrays. They loved that because it's really multiplication! Most students are great at odd and even numbers and making equal groups. Our chapter test is tomorrow-Thursday.  Here's a few pictures showing equal groups and figuring our odd and even numbers.

Our Writing Celebration

Wednesday was an exciting day as we celebrated all of the authors in our class! We started our celebration by sitting in a circle and each student shared one thing they were proud of as a writer.  Then we cheered for each student. Ask your child what they shared yesterday. After sharing our accomplishments, the students shared their writing with their friends. They loved using their flashlights! We also had time to share with the students in Mr. Jobst's class. 

Fact Fluency

The students are working hard to improve their fact fluency! Some students are using flash cards at home and at school. Other students are using Xtramath at home. During math stations students have time use Xtramath about twice a week. We've switched to subtraction facts on our Friday timed tests. The great news is that 18 students have 95% or higher on the addition timed test and 14 students have 95% or higher on the subtraction timed tests. The students are graphing their results each week and they're very excited to see improvement each week! A few students have completed the 6 second addition program in Xtramath and they're now working on 6 second subtraction. I'm so proud of all of my students as they set goals and work towards them each week!!

Visualizing in Reading

We've been working on visualizing in reading. That's the running movie in their mind as they listen to stories or when reading chapter books. The students have been practicing as I read to them. It's great to see their mental images. The first few samples are after listening to the poem called "Relatives" and the last two samples are from the poem "Baby Brother".

Science Update!

On Tuesday, the students learned about fossils. We learned how fossils are formed and what scientists learn from fossils. Then we made fossils using Play-Doh and sea shells. Yesterday we reviewed for the science test on Friday and we review again today with Go Noodle! The students brought home their science books so they can review at home. The test is on Friday, October 2nd.