We are missing our little French visitor! As you can see, the class really enjoyed getting to know Gabriel when he was with us for two weeks & we are missing him deeply! We all promised to stay in touch though and be class pen-pals! We can't wait to hear about his next adventures!
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The class played a 'Roll the Dice to 100' game using our 100s charts. First they estimated how many rolls it would take to get to 100 on the 100 chart. Then they had to roll a dice & then color in that many spaces on their hundred chart. They repeated this process but they had to alternate the color that they used for each dice roll. Hudson even noticed that when he was 4 away from 100 that his options were limited based on what number he needed to roll in order to finish the game. Smart kiddos! The most popular amount was 27 dice rolls! Check out how much we aged! We loved using the Old Booth App on the iPhone today. The results are hilarious!
I love looking back on every child's writing from the past months. It is amazing to look through their seed notebooks & see the progression of growth in their writing. The kids also love looking back on them & they always feel so proud of their accomplishments.
I recently went through my iPhone photos & found a few from the past few months that I can't believe I forgot to post! Take a look below! Sam made some new friends at recess one day. One of the lizards even jumped onto her leg and then onto her arm!
We have been busy & having a blast since we came back from Christmas break! Our class has been full of wonderful, interesting, & amazingly talented visitors of all kinds! Take a look below at some of our new friends! Gabriel is our new friend all the way from France! He has been with our class for the past two weeks & we will be sad to see him leave! We loved getting to know his family and having his mom as one of our special guests. Wow! What a family! His mother and father met years ago while working on a Cirque Du Soleil show. Karine is a stunt double & her husband is a high wire walker! The kids LOVED meeting her & couldn't get enough of their amazing stories. There's always time for after recess silly face selfies! Dillan's father, Colin, came in one Friday morning to teach us a little bit about his card making business. He even brought the kids special cards that he made for them as a surprise. Then... they got to paint their own picture creation onto canvas & then he made them into cards! I love how different and amazing they all are. The kids had a blast painting! We even met a new doggy friend! Biscuit and Gail Goldberg came to talk with the kids about Biscuit's therapy dog life and how much they both love reading. We are one lucky bunch.
There are two things we LOVE in our classroom. Science experiments and iPads!! We love using the school iPads to help us write/publish our stories in Writer's Workshop & to help us learn and practice our sight words.
The bag competition was a HUGE SUCCESS for our school. We didn't win for our class (although I am shocked considering how many bags my class brought in!!) but we did win for all of the schools in our area! The class was pumped & we even got to incorporate math (making groups of TENs) into the project. It took a while to count all of our bags but the class stuck with it! We discussed what would be the easiest way to keep track of our bags and how to show this data. The class decided it would be easiest to put them into groups of TEN (to make it easier to recount later on) & then they decided we should use tally marks to keep track of how many altogether. So proud of them!
The class became experts on pumpkins back at the end of October. They were living like scientists in the classroom & learning how to investigate something that they were interested in. Everyone at The Atlanta Academy knows that October is one of our FAVORITE months of the year. We (Mrs. McKenzie & myself) love love LOVE Halloween & all of the things that come with the month of October. We love to incorporate it into our daily teachings as well. Who doesn't love pumpkins?!?
To be a true scientist you have to really study whatever it is you want to learn about. We discussed with the class how you can't just glance at an object - you have to really investigate all parts of that object. We got out magnifying glasses & went to work! We used our scientist eyes & noticed all of the lines on the pumpkin. Some of us even pointed out that there were bruises or interesting bumps on our pumpkins! We didn't just look at one part of the pumpkin. We looked at all parts. That meant the stem too! We used our 5 senses & discussed with our patterns what the pumpkin looked like, smelled like, felt like, sounded like, etc. We learned how to use our adjective or describing words so that our partner really understood what we meant. We even incorporated some of our math lessons into our investigation! The class got to measure the pumpkins using non-standard units and then they compared the two measurements with their classmates. We discussed non-standard vs. standard & watched a Sid the Science Kid video on it as well! Their favorite part of the whole day was when we got to see if each pumpkin would sink or float. Well, a very candid & teachable moment happened during this part. We first put the smallest pumpkin in & decided if our predictions were correct or incorrect. Then.. we put the larger pumpkin in. Well, the bucket wasn't large enough to hold the water AND the pumpkin therefore I got all wet and spilled water all over the classroom which made the class erupt in laughter! They had a blast. AND we got to discuss capacity and volume because of it!! A win-win! |
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