Summarizing Groundhog's Day!

Today for reading buddies we learned all about ground hogs and Groundhog's Day. Did you know that when groundhogs make their burrows they dig up 700 pounds of dirt? Believe it or not... That was one of the cool facts we learned today.  Students also learned the history behind Groundhogs Day that it all started in Pennsylvania , brought to us from Europe. Students then predicted whether or not they thought Phil the groundhog would see his shadow on February 2nd. On February 2nd we will see who made the correct prediction and who did not. Then of course to bring it all back to our comprehension strategy, we also worked on summarizing our morning with our reading buddies. The students did a great job we first rain brainstormed what were the big ideas of our morning and how could we summarize it in one or two sentences. The students decided that to summarize our morning we could simply state that with our reading buddies we learned all about groundhogs and Groundhog Day.

Twister....

During math centers, students have the opportunity to visit twister center. At this center students are asked to place their hand or foot on a place value that has ones tens or hundreds. The students have had a blast and it helps reinforce understanding place value and what the numbers represent.

Geography center!

Text to self connection inspired projects!

We have a whole bunch of projects culminating right now. Students in this group read a realistic fiction book about a student who researched an animal and created a diorama.  They did just that. They researched via books, ipads and presented today! They all did a fantastic job. I recorded them and am going to try to get them uploaded to the blog soon! 

Pronouns, REPLACE!

One more pic :-D

Pronouns can replace nouns...

Nouns lesson, required some movement. Pronouns had to seek out a noun to replace, but it had to make sense! :-)

Fractions..

New math center. :-)

Mr. Whit is back!

Mr. Whit is back on Thursday afternoons "adding"more fun to our math centers. Students were working on identifying equal and not equal parts. Check out the learning and giggling! IPad math has been a big hit as well! Our school rocks, what kids get to use ipads everyday during the school day?!

New math centers!

Check out the action shot of student learning! Students were making hexagons with other shapes.  Awesome student learning!

Main idea mystery!

We read a fable and students had to identify the main idea.
They did a great job!