Our class has a special supply list. We do not follow the 2nd grade or 3rd grade supply list because we have different needs. To view the supply list for all grade levels, follow this link. The supply list for my class is on page 3!
http://www.brownsburg.k12.in.us/delawaretrail/pdf/DTSupplyLists12-13.pdf
This year, Ms. Whitton would also like for kids in my class to bring a glue bottle and a spiral bound sketchbook for the art room. If you go to the end of the documents at the link above, you will see the art room supply lists.
See you very soon!
Monday, July 23, 2012
Thursday, March 29, 2012
Phases of the Moon
We have had a blast in Science during our Solar System unit! Today we learned about the phases of the moon. We recreated the phases using Oreos! Students had to be true scientists and resist the temptation to eat their supplies! Tonight students are supposed to go home and show their families the different phases with their Oreo plates!
Students were allowed to either glue their Oreos to the plate or take the Oreos home in a baggie (to possibly eat at home). Helen, like a true scientist, decided it would be better to glue her Oreos down to her plate. She was one of only two kids who chose to go that route!
Even though Logan looks very animated as he works on creating a waning gibbous, the room was actually silent! I was shocked! Chocolate?! Plastic knives?! These are usually the kinds of things that create mass excitement in our room! However, everyone was so serious about making their phases look exactly right that you could hear a pin drop!
Natalie worked very hard on her phases. She loves doing hands-on experiments!
These two best buds show off their final plates. They plan on quizzing their parents on the phases tonight! Study up, parents!
What kind of moon will you see tonight? These kids just may be able to tell you! Here are some new vocabulary words we learned today:
Even though Logan looks very animated as he works on creating a waning gibbous, the room was actually silent! I was shocked! Chocolate?! Plastic knives?! These are usually the kinds of things that create mass excitement in our room! However, everyone was so serious about making their phases look exactly right that you could hear a pin drop!
Natalie worked very hard on her phases. She loves doing hands-on experiments!
These two best buds show off their final plates. They plan on quizzing their parents on the phases tonight! Study up, parents!
What kind of moon will you see tonight? These kids just may be able to tell you! Here are some new vocabulary words we learned today:full moon (we all knew what this meant already)
waxing crescent
first quarter
waxing gibbous
waning gibbous
third quarter
waning crescent
new moon
Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Multicultural Fair Pics....Part III
Zoe speaks to a visitor about her German heritage.
Max amazed us with his antique family photos, genealogical history of his family, and family war medals.
Jack showed Evelyn's mom his poster and talked to her about his Irish heritage.
Our beautiful quilt will be hanging in our hallway for awhile, if you didn't get to see it yet! Each student created a square for the quilt in class to represent their culture!
Max amazed us with his antique family photos, genealogical history of his family, and family war medals.
Jack showed Evelyn's mom his poster and talked to her about his Irish heritage.
More Multicultural Fair Pics!
Kevin shows Helen and her mom his Powerpoint about his Indian heritage. Kevin bravely wore traditional ceremonial clothing to school, and we all loved it! We thought he looked quite regal!
Hermon showed Kevin's mom her Powerpoint about her Eritrean heritage. Hermon's parents moved to the United States from Eritrea, and we are so glad they did because Hermon is such a special girl!
Henry impressed us with his traditional summer kimono. I was quite thankful that Henry's mom arrived early to help him properly tie the obi belt! Henry shared some great information about his Japanese heritage.
Some students brought ethnic food. Everyone followed the rules....no eating-just looking! Aiyanna's Croatian cookies and Allison's Irish bread looked delicious.
Aiyanna taught us about her Croatian heritage alongside her pal, Allison!
If anyone else had additional pictures from the Multicultural Fair, please email them to me. I would love to feature them on the blog. I have posted all the photos that have been submitted so far. Thank you to Mrs. Okuhara and Mrs. Petraits for submitting these photos!
Hermon showed Kevin's mom her Powerpoint about her Eritrean heritage. Hermon's parents moved to the United States from Eritrea, and we are so glad they did because Hermon is such a special girl!
Henry impressed us with his traditional summer kimono. I was quite thankful that Henry's mom arrived early to help him properly tie the obi belt! Henry shared some great information about his Japanese heritage. 
Some students brought ethnic food. Everyone followed the rules....no eating-just looking! Aiyanna's Croatian cookies and Allison's Irish bread looked delicious.
Aiyanna taught us about her Croatian heritage alongside her pal, Allison!
If anyone else had additional pictures from the Multicultural Fair, please email them to me. I would love to feature them on the blog. I have posted all the photos that have been submitted so far. Thank you to Mrs. Okuhara and Mrs. Petraits for submitting these photos!
Diversity Makes Us Beautiful!
Our Multicultural Fair was a huge success! There are more pictures to come, but here are some to get you started....
Allison's bright smile welcomed guests to her table where she showed off her family heritage!
Nate explained his heritage to Lauren's dad.
Shane amazed us with his display that represented his Japanese heritage. He brought a lot of artifacts to show guests, and even convinced his mom to dress up!
Allison's bright smile welcomed guests to her table where she showed off her family heritage!
Nate explained his heritage to Lauren's dad.
Shane amazed us with his display that represented his Japanese heritage. He brought a lot of artifacts to show guests, and even convinced his mom to dress up!
Monday, February 6, 2012
Pudding Monday....
I am admittedly way behind on posting updates on the blog. It is always my hope that your kiddos talk about our day and share with you the amazing things we do in class. I can't tell you how blessed I feel this year to share in the kids' joy in learning. Their joy is contagious and keeps me going! I am going to attempt to post some pictures on here to get caught up.....starting with today! I find myself so inspired by this particular group of students that I continually try to top myself on great lessons! After eight years in 2/3, I have learned to take a very integrated approach to teaching and learning. Brain research supports the importance of building connections. Today I think we made more connections in class than I ever have made in my life! We were all amazed at how everything we learned this morning was related.
As you know, we kicked off a unit on Nutrition with our field trip a few weeks ago. We are reading nonfiction text about the food groups. Friday we discussed dairy. Today we started our discussion with the protein group, then reviewed dairy and talked about how protein is found in milk. I passed out a carton of milk to each child. We examined the packaging and talked about the nonfiction text features like bold text, italics, different fonts, etc. Then we learned how to read the nutritional label. We have been working on persuasive writing and learning how to provide our audience with strong arguments. We made the connection that by knowing how to read labels properly, we can make strong arguments to our parents about why they should or should not buy a product at the store. (Sorry if this leads to some crafty persuasion at the grocery!!). After this discussion, I passed out sugar free pudding mix and we talked about having treats in moderation and about how sugar free treats are good options. We examined the text features on the pudding boxes.....then.......the kids found out that they were going to make the pudding and EAT IT!!! Okay....some of you may not realize how HUGE this was to the kids. We never eat in class!!! You would think I announced that we were going to Disneyland! This was exciting stuff for a Monday morning! Kids had to work in pairs to figure out how to make pudding only using 1 box of mix, two cartons of milk, and plastic spoons. The sugar free pudding was chocolate because it was leading to our kick-off of our Chocolate Literature Circles. The healthy chocolate snack would help us build our schemas or background knowledge in order to better understand our chocolate themed novels. Follow me so far? Basically, the connections just wouldn't stop!
Below is a picture of Allison and Jack working hard on mixing their pudding.
I know these kids so well that I predicted someone wouldn't want chocolate! Nate and Keenan were thrilled to work on their vanilla schemas instead! They mixed vanilla pudding and passed on the chocolate.
After making a huge mess in the classroom, along with a TON of learning connections, the kids sat in their Literature Circle groups to eat their snack and start making predictions about their chocolate novels. Below you can see Helen, Evelyn, and Leah deep in conversation about their predictions for their story. I love listening in on these reading discussions.....lots of great thinking going on.
In our classroom, we have a bulletin board called "I Can." Each day we write "I Can" statements on the board to set the objective for our lessons that day. Today we drew arrows to show all the crazy connections we were making! The kids are learning that they can do so many things!
So.....if your kid came home today and said, "We had pudding at school" but neglected to share anything else, now you know the full story!! Who knew that nonfiction text features, the dairy and protein groups, persuasive writing, and schema building could all be rolled into one tasty lesson?
As you know, we kicked off a unit on Nutrition with our field trip a few weeks ago. We are reading nonfiction text about the food groups. Friday we discussed dairy. Today we started our discussion with the protein group, then reviewed dairy and talked about how protein is found in milk. I passed out a carton of milk to each child. We examined the packaging and talked about the nonfiction text features like bold text, italics, different fonts, etc. Then we learned how to read the nutritional label. We have been working on persuasive writing and learning how to provide our audience with strong arguments. We made the connection that by knowing how to read labels properly, we can make strong arguments to our parents about why they should or should not buy a product at the store. (Sorry if this leads to some crafty persuasion at the grocery!!). After this discussion, I passed out sugar free pudding mix and we talked about having treats in moderation and about how sugar free treats are good options. We examined the text features on the pudding boxes.....then.......the kids found out that they were going to make the pudding and EAT IT!!! Okay....some of you may not realize how HUGE this was to the kids. We never eat in class!!! You would think I announced that we were going to Disneyland! This was exciting stuff for a Monday morning! Kids had to work in pairs to figure out how to make pudding only using 1 box of mix, two cartons of milk, and plastic spoons. The sugar free pudding was chocolate because it was leading to our kick-off of our Chocolate Literature Circles. The healthy chocolate snack would help us build our schemas or background knowledge in order to better understand our chocolate themed novels. Follow me so far? Basically, the connections just wouldn't stop!
Below is a picture of Allison and Jack working hard on mixing their pudding.
I know these kids so well that I predicted someone wouldn't want chocolate! Nate and Keenan were thrilled to work on their vanilla schemas instead! They mixed vanilla pudding and passed on the chocolate.
After making a huge mess in the classroom, along with a TON of learning connections, the kids sat in their Literature Circle groups to eat their snack and start making predictions about their chocolate novels. Below you can see Helen, Evelyn, and Leah deep in conversation about their predictions for their story. I love listening in on these reading discussions.....lots of great thinking going on.
In our classroom, we have a bulletin board called "I Can." Each day we write "I Can" statements on the board to set the objective for our lessons that day. Today we drew arrows to show all the crazy connections we were making! The kids are learning that they can do so many things!
So.....if your kid came home today and said, "We had pudding at school" but neglected to share anything else, now you know the full story!! Who knew that nonfiction text features, the dairy and protein groups, persuasive writing, and schema building could all be rolled into one tasty lesson? I have to give a special shout-out to Natalie and Zoe who volunteered to stay inside for the first ten minutes of their recess just to help me clean desktops. Let's just say there were a lot of traces of chocolate pudding powder all over!!
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Meet Nick!
Introducing......Nick the elf! After searching near and far, I finally found an Elf on the Shelf for our classroom! After much debate and discussion, the kids named him Nick. Each morning, Nick is in a new location. He only moves at night, using his elf magic. This morning, Nick was sitting all the way on top of the projector on the ceiling!! We thought maybe he went up there so he could get a better view of each and every student, so he could give a detailed report to Santa when he returns to the North Pole. One thing is for sure....there is a lot of Christmas magic in the air!
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