Gung Hay Fat Choy!

Happy Chinese New Year!!!! Here are some pictures of our school's celebration.

Room 101 made paper lanterns...

for good luck!!! 

The Dragon Dance

100th Day of School

Our school celebrated the 100th day of school last February 18th. The children had a blast!

Everyone counted 100 treats to enjoy!

We all made a 100 day crown.

The Kindergarteners were able to share their collection (paper clips) of 100 things.

100 Band-aids!!!

100 puffy stickers!!!

3rd Graders came to our room to discuss our 100th day writing.

Thank you for your visit!

Some of us.

Yummy treats.

HAPPY 100TH DAY OF SCHOOL!!!

We are 100 days smarter!

Collage

My students has been working on tearing, cutting and pasting. These activities help with their fine motor skills and pincer grip. I showed them a lesson on collaging wherein they are able to combine the different activities to create their own art. Please enjoy the process and final product of this collage lesson through the pictures shared below. Thanks for looking!

You Can't Catch the Gingerbread Man Part 2

Hello and Happy New Year!

This post is long over due but the wait is over. This is a collection of pictures featuring the other activities we had for our gingerbread unit.

We compared and contrasted different versions of gingerbread stories.

                                 

                                                   We charted the different characters, settings, refrains and endings.

The kindergarteners partnered up and made their own venn diagrams.

They were also able to share and explain their work to the class.

Everyone decorated their own gingerbread cookie based on which character was their favorite.

The children chose their favorite version and the whole class made a graph.

Quick Writes

I was truly inspired by my National Board mentor's suggestion to help my students gain more focus in their writing personal narrative stories. She shared that in her classroom, she has her students do "quick writes" wherein her students quickly draw or write the beginning, middle, and end of the story she read. She reads 3-4 pages and allows her students to jot down the beginning of the story on a post-it note. This goes on till the end of the story. The students are able to share and discuss things that they might have written- added characters, setting, plot, etc. Once completed, she uses this strategy to extend into her students' personal writing.

I tried this strategy out with my kindergarteners today. I made a graphic organizer, gave them post-its, paired them up, and then they shared each part of their story before writing a quick note. It was beautiful! The children were engaged and their stories had more focus. After they completed their quick write graphic organizers, they transferred their stories to their writing paper. I am very proud of them! I am excited to do this activity with them again.

You Can't Catch the Gingerbread Man Part 1

Our class has been working on a Gingerbread Unit. We are reading different variations of the Gingerbread story. Our plan is to make our own book, compare and contrast, graph our favorite gingerbread book, and the best part- decorate our own gingerbread cookies!!! Yum! This post will show the students working on their own page for our class book. (This was inspired by an activity I saw here: http://fun-a-day.com/book-making-the-gingerbread-man/ ) Watch out for our 2nd post which will include pictures of our different gingerbread activities. We can't wait!!!

"The gingerbread mom ran to the beach."

Our Chicken Story

Our school PTA adopted 6 Rhode Island Red Hens and my students are crazy about them!!! It has been too cold to visit them out in the Peace Garden but here is a picture of some of them c/o the PTA.

We have been talking about chickens in the classroom, too! I'm working on figuring out how to attach a video so that we can share our classroom performance of the chicken song we learned (to follow...) Here are some of the works we have done in Room 101.

Presentation on the Life Cycle of a Chicken

Parts of a Chicken Lesson

Parts of a Chicken Lesson