We worked so hard on finishing our final copies of "Team Boy" or "Team Ant" opinion writing based on the book Hey Little Ant! As a way to showcase our amazing writing skills, we each were able to complete our own ChatterPix on the iPads! We took a picture of our ant and shoe that is a part of our final copy product, and we recorded ourselves reading our attention getter, opinion topic sentence, and preview sentence. Find your techy child's video below! :)
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As a way to review and wrap up all that we have learned about contractions, we participated in contraction-ectomy surgery! We were surgeons for the entire afternoon with our own hairnets, gloves, face masks, scalpels (scissors), bone glue (glue sticks), and band-aids! Each group had a patient they needed to complete surgery on. Their bones needed major fixing. The procedure involved letter removals and apostrophe replacement. Their task was to cut the two words on the bones out, decide which letter or letters needed to be cut out, and then they had to glue the two bones together to make one. They put a band-aid where the letter or letters were removed and drew an apostrophe on the band-aid. It was so cute to hear their conversations... "I think our patient is going to make it!", "Now he can walk again!", & "Miss Reszel, I feel like I am a real surgeon!" It was a success for all 5 of our patients... Congratulations to all of our 2R surgeons! :) We all had a blast at Reszel Hospital on Friday afternoon. ChatterPix after SurgeryAs a way to culminate our contraction surgery, groups worked together with the "ChatterPix for Kids" app to speak as if they were the patient! Their responsibility was to explain what contractions are, and what happened during the contraction surgery. Great job, everyone! Below: Carli, Reilly, Hunter, & Carsten's patient after surgery. Below: Marlo, Elaina, Charlotte, & Ella's patient after surgery. Below: Max, Tessa, Brooke, & Joey's patient after surgery. Below: Brian, Nick, Brianna, Nathan, and Katie's patient after surgery. Below: Mikey, Gage, Avalyn, & Jade's patient after surgery. I loved getting the chance to see so many fun, creative, learning experiences happening over spring break... and that they are enjoying being kids! Thank you for sending me pictures of your child's adventures :)! Adventures of Nathan:Adventures of Nick:Adventures of Tessa:Adventures of Marlo:Adventures of Reilly:Adventures of Carsten:Adventures of Brianna:Adventures of Katie:These are some uplifting & motivating responses from my "five star" students... be persistent, never give up, be respectful, have a positive attitude, don't say you can't do it- say you can do it, set a good example for others. I am SO proud of them!
After talking about what each quote means and how we can apply them to our own lives, we watercolored the backgrounds & displayed these awesome works of art in the hallway to spread words of wisdom to others! Our friend, Ella, had a special surprise for everyone before our spring party on Friday... her baby brother, Cameron, was our show & tell guest! :) Our spring party was another success! A huge "THANK YOU" goes out to all of our room parent volunteers & the families who donated prizes. The kids and I all have special memories of these parties and it is because of all of you who make that possible for us. We had a great time! Have a wonderful spring break, everyone! We love this wall of our classroom called our "Grammar Garden". We've been adding to it for a few weeks... We have adjective flowers that have describing words about our character on the petals, prefix butterflies, and we just added a contraction sun!
On Friday we spent some time before our spelling test to review and enjoy the warm weather! We wrote our words in chalk and played sparkle outside :). To go along with our geometry unit in math the students went around the classroom and read clues on a closed paper bag. They had to determine, based on the clues and the attributes they have learned about plane shapes and solid figures, what was in the mystery bag. |
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