Text features, Nouns and Science!

These past couple of weeks have been filled with lots of new learning!  First, we've been learning about text features!  This includes captions, labels, glossaries, bold words, headings and titles.  The students have been great at remembering what these things are and finding them in magazines and non-fiction texts!

Next, we have introduced nouns!  We talked about how there is a noun club and only a person, place or thing can get in!  The students had a blast telling me what things could get in the noun club and what things couldn't.  We made a poster for a reference, then the students got to make their own noun book to show me what they knew about nouns!

Finally, we had our first science experiment on Friday!  We had a special guest (my roommate) Scientist Oh-HaHa!  The students absolutely loved having a new face in the classroom and the excitement she brought to the five senses experiments.  We set up five stations 1. Sight 2. Hearing 3. Smell 4. Touch 5. Taste.  The students had to write in their journals what they saw, heard, smelt, touched and tasted.  It was such a fun way to end our week and I'm sure the students will be asking me when Scientist Oh-Haha will be returning!

Learning, Learning, Learning!

  It's the 7th week of school!  Where has the time gone?!  I can't believe how fast the time is going by, but it has been amazing to see the growth of the students!  They are learning so much and I could not be more proud of the progress they have made!  Thank you parents for doing your part at home to make our classroom so successful!
  In reading, we are in our last week of digraphs.  We've been working hard at trying to remember that our digraphs are two letters that stick together to make one sound and what sounds they make.  We have been digraph detectives and have been finding and pointing out every digraph we see!  We have our digraph dictation on Friday and will move into bonus letters (f, l, s and sometimes z) next week!
  In math, we are still on addition and we have been working on horizontal addition, vertical addition, word problems, adding zero and different ways to make numbers (2, 3, 4, 5).  We have also been learning words that help us figure out that we need to add (in all, more, altogether).
  We have made it to 13 charms!  We only need 7 more to play plinko and to win a class party!

My 'th' detectives!

 My 'wh' detectives!

 My 'sh' detectives!

 My 'ch' detectives!

 My 'ck' detectives!