Today we will take a look at a couple of ShowMes created by students in our crew. If you would like to see more or would like to see some regular blog posts or Tellagamis by students, check out our Kidblog page.
Lochen reads us The Little Book of Street Rods
Brandon shows us how to count by 10s.
Matthew teaches us how to add 4 and 5.
Emma shares a story about her mom.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.15 Unit 4: Family Letter: Measurement and Basic Facts
Thursday, November 14, 2013
Wednesday, November 13, 2013
Sight Words
What an exciting few days we have had! More to come - but for today, back to a regular, routine blog post.
Our new sight words are: get, first, down, here, when
Previous words include: and, like, for, day, her, are, going, my, look, of, have, do, me, they, saw
We are working on learning to spell these words correctly. We can read them, now we must learn to write them. These are great words to point out to your child when they are reading or to have them practice spelling at home, too.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Test tomorrow. Practice counting collections of coins including dimes, nickels and pennies, filling in Frames and Arrows diagrams and telling time to the hour and half hour. This test will not include exchanging coins - 2 nickels for a dime, etc.
Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to return his or her library books.
Our new sight words are: get, first, down, here, when
Previous words include: and, like, for, day, her, are, going, my, look, of, have, do, me, they, saw
We are working on learning to spell these words correctly. We can read them, now we must learn to write them. These are great words to point out to your child when they are reading or to have them practice spelling at home, too.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Test tomorrow. Practice counting collections of coins including dimes, nickels and pennies, filling in Frames and Arrows diagrams and telling time to the hour and half hour. This test will not include exchanging coins - 2 nickels for a dime, etc.
Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to return his or her library books.
Tuesday, November 12, 2013
Skyping with Mrs. Price's Class
We had a wonderful Skype chat with Mrs. Price's class today. Ask your child to tell you all about it. Enjoy the photos below.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.14 Domino Top-It
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.14 Domino Top-It
Monday, November 11, 2013
Our Connected Learning
We have been so lucky to connect with Mrs. Price and her class from Australia this year. We have learned so much from each other in just a few short months with plans for more. Earlier I wrote a post that shared some of the tweets that we have sent back and forth (click here to read the previous post) but I thought I would provide a little update on things we have learned since then.
A Few Things We Have Learned from Mrs. Price's Class
We learned about an animal that we had not heard of before. It is called an echidna. It lives in Australia and it looks like a porcupine with a long nose. Mrs. Price shared this video with us that she took while walking in a national park.
We also learned that in Australia, McDonald's is called Maccas.
We learned about a yummy looking dessert called Pavlova that is a favorite in Australia.
Mrs. Price sent us a picture of her Pavlova plate with the recipe in the center of the plate.
We also enjoyed getting this video from them so that we could hear their voices.
We also learned some interesting things about the largest rock in the world from Sam's grandma and Mrs. Price in the comments of this post.
A Few Things Mrs. Price's Class Has Learned from Us
They learned about Tellagami's by watching the Tellagami's that we posted on our Kidblog page. Here is Mrs. Price's Tellagami that she shared with us.
They saw how we created patterns using popsicle sticks (they call them icypole sticks) and wanted to try it themselves. They sent us some photos of their patterns. They were so creative with their patterns. We saw more pictures. This is just a sample of the photos.
They also learned more about our American holiday of Halloween. They enjoyed watching the slideshow of our costumes on our blog.
We are going to try to Skype with their class tomorrow afternoon. (Let's hope we don't have any technical issues.) Our crew also wants to begin a conversation about coins/money in our countries so we can notice any similarities and differences. So much to learn!
Important Dates
11/15 Guest Speaker about the language and homes in China - Mr. Mike - Brandon's dad
11/18 - 11/21 Climbing in PE for our crew - sign up to help belay - we really need some volunteers
Fall Climbing 2013
11/21 Family Thanksgiving Lunch in our cafeteria
11/22 Fieldwork at Joyous Chinese Cultural Center
11/18 - 11/22 Scholastic Book Fair in our library. Family Night at the Book Fair is Tuesday 11/19 from 4:30 to 7:30.
11/27, 11/28 and 11/29 No School - Thanksgiving Holiday
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.13 Favorite Colors
A Few Things We Have Learned from Mrs. Price's Class
We learned about an animal that we had not heard of before. It is called an echidna. It lives in Australia and it looks like a porcupine with a long nose. Mrs. Price shared this video with us that she took while walking in a national park.
We also learned that in Australia, McDonald's is called Maccas.
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We learned about a yummy looking dessert called Pavlova that is a favorite in Australia.
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We also enjoyed getting this video from them so that we could hear their voices.
We also learned some interesting things about the largest rock in the world from Sam's grandma and Mrs. Price in the comments of this post.
A Few Things Mrs. Price's Class Has Learned from Us
They learned about Tellagami's by watching the Tellagami's that we posted on our Kidblog page. Here is Mrs. Price's Tellagami that she shared with us.
They saw how we created patterns using popsicle sticks (they call them icypole sticks) and wanted to try it themselves. They sent us some photos of their patterns. They were so creative with their patterns. We saw more pictures. This is just a sample of the photos.
They also learned more about our American holiday of Halloween. They enjoyed watching the slideshow of our costumes on our blog.
We are going to try to Skype with their class tomorrow afternoon. (Let's hope we don't have any technical issues.) Our crew also wants to begin a conversation about coins/money in our countries so we can notice any similarities and differences. So much to learn!
Important Dates
11/15 Guest Speaker about the language and homes in China - Mr. Mike - Brandon's dad
11/18 - 11/21 Climbing in PE for our crew - sign up to help belay - we really need some volunteers
Fall Climbing 2013
11/21 Family Thanksgiving Lunch in our cafeteria
11/22 Fieldwork at Joyous Chinese Cultural Center
11/18 - 11/22 Scholastic Book Fair in our library. Family Night at the Book Fair is Tuesday 11/19 from 4:30 to 7:30.
11/27, 11/28 and 11/29 No School - Thanksgiving Holiday
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.13 Favorite Colors
Friday, November 8, 2013
Families of China Video
Homework
No homework for the weekend. Enjoy some good books with your child.
IA
Our IA next week is Music.
Thursday, November 7, 2013
Books That Connect to Our Learning
Recently, a few students have been able to bring in some books from home that relate really well to what we are learning. One day last week, Caroline brought in a photo book about Australia. The pictures in it are beautiful. We are all enjoying looking at it. We have some new questions now to ask Mrs. Price's class about the beautiful area where they live. Maybe if they read this post, they can tell us more about the pictures below.
Another day last week we looked at a book by Mo Willems (our current favorite author) called Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed about a naked mole rat who decides to get dressed. After much giggling about the naked mole rats we were curious about real naked mole rats. Gabriel brought in a great non-fiction book that included a picture and a few paragraphs about naked mole rats. We loved seeing the real photo. It made our experience of the book even better. Thanks to Caroline and Gabriel for extending our learning.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.12 Counting Coins
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| We are fascinated by this picture. Mrs. Price, if you have any experience with this place we would love to hear about it. |
Another day last week we looked at a book by Mo Willems (our current favorite author) called Naked Mole Rat Gets Dressed about a naked mole rat who decides to get dressed. After much giggling about the naked mole rats we were curious about real naked mole rats. Gabriel brought in a great non-fiction book that included a picture and a few paragraphs about naked mole rats. We loved seeing the real photo. It made our experience of the book even better. Thanks to Caroline and Gabriel for extending our learning.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.12 Counting Coins
Wednesday, November 6, 2013
Student-Led Conferences
The first section of Student-Led conferences was this afternoon. I love
watching the crew share what they have learned with you. My face hurts
tonight from smiling so much. Wendy was able to snap a few photos of the conferences and they are below.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.11 Coin Exchanges
Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to return his or her books. We want them to have lots of books around to practice their new reading skills and strategies.
Homework
Reading ~ Read a good book or two.
Math ~ Home Link 3.11 Coin Exchanges
Library
We have library tomorrow. Please help your child remember to return his or her books. We want them to have lots of books around to practice their new reading skills and strategies.
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