Planting Lima Beans!

On Monday, the students had the chance to put the plant life cycle into action!  To help end our unit of study on plants, each child recieved their own cup, filled it with soil, added two lima beans, and watered their plant.  Throughout the week, children have been watching their plants, looking for signs of plant growth.  When they bring these home, continue to water them and make sure they have sunlight.  I asked the students to report back to class every so often on how their plants are doing!

Learning About Plants!

This week, our focus was on learning about the Life Cyle of Plants.  Students were asked to look at a group of pictures and decide which were plants and which were not plants.  We discovered that plants were often green in color, need sun and water to live, and are living and grow.  We also compared our own life cycle as humans to the life cycle of a plant.  Students learned that flowers start as a seed, grow into a stem, then grow leaves, then flowers, and sometimes, fruit.  We will continue our unit next week as students have the opportunity to watch their own plants grow. 

Students completed a sunflower project with our Boulan Buddies this week. We talked about the parts of sunflowers (stem, flower, leaves, seed, roots) etc. and compared them to other types of plants.

We also drew our own flowers and labeled them with their appropriate parts!

Weather Week

This week, our class focused on Weather! Students were official meterologists, recording our daily weather on their own weather chart forms.  Please ask them to show you their chart and review the week's weather with you!  We also worked with our Boulan buddies on four different weather stations.  Students picked their favorite weather, drew a picture, and left clues for others to guess what kind of weather they had drawn.  They also completed a Rainbow of Me, identified and matched weather words, and read weather books!  The Boulan Buddies did a great job sharing information they knew about Weather with our Kindergarten students! During Listening stations, students read "One Rainy Day" and had to write sentences using different kinds of punctuation to describe the rain. They also completed a weather word search and scramble. Next week, students will finish up the weather unit by writing My Weather Book and making the book "A Sky Full of Clouds."

Our Map Book- April Family Project

Here is an example completed by Mrs. Latarte of the My Map Book students will be completing this month:

(Sorry! The pictures wouldn't go on to the website in any other direction!)

Our Map Unit

Thank you all for your contribution to our map unit! As you can see below, we were able to recieve over 35 postcards from friends and family members around the country!  The children really enjoyed recieving mail at school and looked forward to hearing their special messages each day.  I will be sending the postcards home with students at the end of this week. I would encourage you to ask your student to respond to their postcards, as many who wrote asked the students questions.  They can always practice their letter writing skills!

We also had a visit from the Easter Bunny this week. Oh wait! No....that's just our students!

Click on the below movie clip to hear a special greeting from our students. Have a great Spring Break!

Celebrating Reading Month!

Our Fourth Grade Buddies from Mrs. Clay's classroom were able to come visit  this week!  Each child paired up with their buddy to listen and help them read a Spring or Fairytale story.  After reading together, our buddies helped our students fill out a book story map.  Our reading theme is "Reading Takes You Places!"  On the story map, each child had to share where the story and characters took them.

Our Library helper, Mrs. C., surprised the students with an extra special Easter surprise!  After reading an Easter Bunny story during library, she gave our class hand-made oragami bunnies.  Thank you Mrs. C!

Happy St. Patrick's Day!

We have had an exciting week celebrating St. Patrick's Day! Here are a few of the activities below:

 Working on our Leprechaun Puppets with our Boulan Buddies!

A Math Graphing Activity using Lucky Charms! They're magically delicious!

What happened to our room?!?!  Mickey and Patrick, the Leprechauns, visited our room and took us on a Scavenger hunt. 

Look! We found treasure, but the Leprechauns were too quick for us! Maybe we'll find them next year!