ALL ABOUT Writing Unit!

Today, Mrs, Conner told us that we were going to start a NEW writing unit!  It was going to be called "ALL ABOUT!"  She said we were going to write all about ourselves, animals, places, different cultures, and anything our hearts desired!  She told us that writing all about books are COMPLETELY different from writing small moment books! We found out that we were going to be a lot like scientist and tell facts instead of our opinions!  We were SUPER excited because we LOVE being scientist!  Mrs. Tallent introduced an "All About" book to us today on BIG UNIVERSE called The Circus!  It was GREAT and told us all about what the circus is and what is at the circus!  Then we wrote together as a class about comparing small moments and all about books using a Venn Diagram!  We LOVE Venn Diagrams and love comparing things!  

Mrs. Conner told us that we were going to get into character and become part of the circus so that we could write ALL ABOUT it!! BOY she was NOT kidding!  We made ourselves into circus acrobats, gymnasts, and trapeze artists!  After doing this we felt we really knew ALL ABOUT the circus and were ready to write some ALL ABOUT books!  

Acrobats, gymnasts, and trapeze artist, OH MY!!!

ALL ABOUT books coming soon! :) 

"The Mitten" Fever!

This week we had so much fun studying all about The Mitten. Boy do we LOVE Jan Brett!  We started the week off by reading and viewing the book many times and in many different ways!  Mrs. Conner said the more we read it the better we will recall the details of the book!  She was right! Each time we saw something new in the book that we did not see the time before!  BOY can that mitten stretch!  We enjoyed completing tons of different literacy centers, shared reading, writing, math centers and STEM activities focused around the book!

We celebrated Lilly's birthday today!

Reading The Mitten

The Mitten Smart Board Sequencing 

The Mitten Beginning, Middle, End Retell

 The class voted and chose Justice, Khymwar and Matthew as The Mitten retell winners! 

The Mitten Centers:
Sneaky "e" and Contraction Snowballs

How To Snowman Writing

Listening to The Mitten On-line 

Listening to winter books 

Making words with Frosty

Mitten rhyming and sentence writing 

Mitten Blends and Writing

Mitten Blend Sort

We LOVED eating lunch in the classroom one day!  We even enjoyed a GREAT Antarctic video on United Streaming!  Recess this week was very interesting! We felt like we were having recess in the Arctic! Even with all the rain and cold, recess is always the BEST! 

Genesis even lost a tooth this week! Guess what? The tooth fairy visited her in our classroom! 

The Mitten Sequencing

Sariyah referencing The Mitten to sequence the story. 

Math Centers:
Mitten Measuring

Marshmallow Subtraction 

Mitten Numbers and Graphing

Mitten Addition Facts

Winter Addition Stories

Measuring Friends with Mittens

Science Winter Unit:
We have been working HARD on some winter themed vocabulary words! 

Songs we LOVE to sing about SCIENCE!
Habitat song

Arctic vs Antarctic song 

Ever since we started our winter study, Mrs. Conner told us that each lesson was going to build on the one before!  She was right! We started out learning about the season of winter followed by the plant life in winter.  Then the animals and how they hibernate, migrate, and burrow.  Soon after that we created an Arctic habitat and learned about the Arctic and Antarctic land forms.  On Tuesday, we studied adaptation, camouflage, and conducted an experiment with blubber!  Then later in the week, we learned about climate, precipitation, and the word TUNDRA! 

BUILD ON! Chart

Creating an Arctic Habitat, Camouflaging, and Arctic Land Forms 

Sharing our "environments" with our camouflage hats on! 

Adaptation and Blubber... OH MY! 

When collecting results, we put up "X"s for "NO, our hands, in the ice with the blubber, were NOT cold!"

We hugged ourselves to show that we were WARM to answer the statement, "Blubber helps polar bears stay _______," 

 We made BURRRRR faces to answer the question, "What did your hand without the blubber feel like?" 

Habitats, Hibernation and Migration!

We LOVE to check our own work!  It helps us to learn what we know and what we need to add to make our work exactly what Mrs. Conner is looking for!  

"I can assess my own work with my rubric!" 

Graphing Winter Temperatures with Thermometers 

By the end of the week we agreed that The Mitten is the BEST!!  It was so FUN learning about winter and SNOW!  Now if we could only get a little REAL snow here in Gastonia!

Until next time, (We will be doing the snow dance!)

The Circus Crew