Five Senses Smell Test

We used our sense of smell to guess six different smells in covered containers. They worked as table (so well might I add!) to pass the containers around, taking turns smelling them, then discussing which smell they thought it was. They all pre-cut the pictures of the possible smells (pickle, peanut butter, perfume, lime, popcorn and coffee) and matched them in the box with the number that matched the number on each container. They did such a good job and worked so well together!

Daily 5 at a Glance

We are in full swing with our Daily 5!
Here are some pictures of the students hard at work Reading to Self, Reading to Others, Word Work, Writing, and Listening to Reading.

Letter Sorting

The students were able to sort different letters onto their Letter Sorting Mat.

Letter and Number Fishing!

The students had so much fun using a play fishing rod to "catch" some fish with letters and numbers on them. This helped us practice our letter and number recognition. We could also give the letter sounds if we knew them for the letters we caught! It is now a center in our Daily 5 Word Work station.

Oh what fun it is to ADD!

We are learning to add in Math. We started by talking about how adding is taking two groups and combining them to see how many there are in all. Now we are talking about the plus and equal signs and how we use them in adding. To help them, we used Popsicle sticks and made a plus and equal signs. Then we did some addition problems with our frogs to help us understand what adding means.

Brazil Carnaval Masks

We learned about Brazil during our Traveling Unit and one thing we learned was that there is a big annual festival called Carnaval. We made masks with lots of colors and feathers like we saw in a clip about Carnaval.

Mexican Hat Dance with maracas

They had a blast watching a real Mexican Hat dance online and then partner dancing it themselves with the maracas they made in class! It was fun hearing the wonderful Mexican music and dancing while pretending we were in Mexico (if only the weather would have been like in Mexico!)