Non fiction text features

Students were learning about non fiction text features this week. We learned about titles, headings, index, glossary, captions, bold type and diagrams. They impressed me by finding these features in lots of books throughout the classroom. We leaned about Chinese New Year and found out what Chinese animal we were. We also had fun writing and saying Chinese numbers. We counted more money in math and spent a lot of time working on polishing our subtraction facts. In Science we experimented with the magnetic poles of magnets and found out magnets can attract through solids, liquids and gases.

101 Day and more

 This past week we continued to review reading comprehension strategies; compare and contrast and cause and effect.  We practiced more counting money and addition and subtraction in regrouping in math.  In science we did a little experimenting with magnets.  We also started working on writing a story which will be submitted for the Reading Rainbow contest. (deadline is March 30, 2012)  We will write, type, and illustrate our story here in the classroom. 

Our 101 day was lots of fun.  We made dog ears and collars with our dog names on them.  We read and wrote a Dalmatian poem which we are still trying to finish publishing on the ipods. We read about dalmatians and played a few fun activities on the computer.  We used money to make 101 cents in different ways, we estimated and rolled dice to 101.  For our snack we had dog bones, Scooby Doo dog treats of course.  It was a fun and memorable day.

Busy Weeks at School

The past two weeks have been very busy in our classroom.  We have been working on cause and effect and comparing and contrasting in reading. We have been studying Force, Motion and Gravity in Science the past 2 weeks.  We did some fun experiments.  We have been on counting money in math.  We have been counting half dollars, quarters, dimes, nickels and pennies.  Last Friday we had a fun RAH RAH reading celebration.