ARRRgh... What a Great Pirate Week!

We had a great week of learning all about the /ar/ sound in words. We did several treasure hunts, walked the plank and created our own treasure map with /ar/ words. On Thursday, we dressed up like Pirates. We had a great time! Thanks to Captain Smarrty for helping us!!

Caterpillar Life Cycle and Author Celebration

We have been so busy lately that I haven't had time to post. We learned all about the butterfly life cycle and created an edible model of the cycle. Finally we celebrated our very first published book by having an author celebration. Thank you to all the parents that participated. They were so proud of their work.

Compound Words and Clouds

This week we learned all about compound words. We learned that they are two words that come together to make one: rain + bow = rainbow. We watched a video with examples, read a book to locate some words and then sorted words that would make compound words.

During our Magazine Monday, we learned about spring weather in our Scholastic News. One of the topics was clouds. We did an investigation with pennies and droppers. I challenged the students to tell me how this experiment was like a cloud. I was thrilled when I had several people that could see that when the penny had too much water on it, the water fell off - just like when a cloud gets too many water droplets it must 'explode' as rain. I love my budding scientists!!