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!