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Halloween turned out to be some nasty weather. We had a good amount of snow and cold temperatures. Yuck! Snow in October?!? We had to cancel the Halloween Costume Parade for the parents. Fortunately Mrs. Wright was able to have a smaller version inside.                        Happy Halloween everyone! Stay safe!    We are reading the story, Bat Loves the Night (one of my favs!) It's a non fiction story/fiction story that tells the adventures of a bat at night. It gives lots of facts about bats. We read about the nighttime adventures of a bat, we watched videos about bats' skeletal systems, we read about how bats can land upsidedown, and we made bat flyers. I think the kids favorite was the bat flyers. We first started the STEM activity with a regular copy of a bat. The kids practiced throwing these bats to get a good distance. We then added a paperclip for weight. Then I gave the kids a card stock copy of the bat. The students could choose which one they wanted to fly. They also had the choice of stance and flying procedure. It was fun to watch them work out how they wanted to do it. Congrats to our super scientists!  We made our traditional Math word wallets again this year. It's a fun way to study our Math vocab. We treat our knowledge like money. It's fun to earn! We often play a game of Headbanz, using our vocab, especially before a test or quiz. Our first unit in English is that of sentences. We learn that a sentence has a capital letter in the beginning, a subject and predicate in the middle, and ends with an ending mark. We did lots of activities: starting with simple sentences and moving up to compound and complex sentences.  One of our favorite activities was sorting Taco Bell sauce packets. Did you know that Taco Bell puts different sentences on the outside of their sauce packets? They have declarative, interrogative, imperative, and exclamatory sentences on them. We had a ball finding and sorting the different types.  We also sorted sentences other ways. We then moved on to making complete sentences. We had one half of the room make subjects and the other half of the room make predicates. We then put them together. The kids were in hysterics with the funny sentences we created. We then moved on to compound subjects and compound predicates. We had one half of the room make compound subjects and the other half of the room make compound predicates. We then put them together. Finally, we moved to compound and complex sentences. |
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June 2020
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