Time to Play Catch Up!

Well, I must say that time is going by waaaaay too fast.  Here are some photos of what we've been up to since late October:

I feel a little silly posting photos from our Halloween party since it is almost (gasp!) Thanksgiving.

The students are loving our flexible seating.

This was our 2nd story in our Cinderella unit.  (It's one of my favorites.)

We made wigwams.

Some of the students wrote an opinion paragraph about whether or not they would want to live in a wigwam.

more vocabulary cards

 We continue to work on using context clues to determine the meaning of unknown words,

and comparing and contrasting the Cinderella stories.

We have talked about how characters respond to challenges they face.

The students worked really hard on their reader's theater and they did such a great job.

We just finished our 3rd Cinderella story, Cendrillon, and will be starting Domitila.

Thank you for stopping by!

A Little Late But A Lot to Share

On Tuesday, October 18th, we ventured down to Main Street for a field trip.

waiting for the city bus to take us to the Park City Museum

The apron exhibit was amazing!

looking at the "speed queen" (aka washing machine)

The kids loved trying on the aprons.

It's amazing how far down the miners worked!

standing in a cage that took miners down into the shaft

It would take us 4 hours to get down to Salt Lake City...

That afternoon, we also had a Utah Opera assembly.

We started our 2nd Unit:  Cinderella.  Throughout this unit, we will be reading about 7 different versions of Cinderella.  We will compare and contrast the different versions, find the lesson from each story, along with other comprehension and vocabulary activities.

We really started working a lot on finding evidence to support our opinions and reasons.

 We will be completing this chart with each of the stories we read.

There are new vocabulary words hanging around the room.  There are some tough words in Cinderella.  To determine the meaning of these words, we used context clues (hints that appear around the vocabulary word).

We practice some of the vocabulary words when table groups line up at the door.

We completed a flap book of important objects from Cinderella.  Under each flap we wrote a sentence about why that object was important in the story.

Please take a look at the students' most recent work.  We wrote an opinion paragraph about a lesson we learned from Cinderella and had to give evidence from the story to support our opinion.  To go along with our writing, we did a directed drawing of Cinderella.  I am very proud of them!

crazy hair day

The pumpkin character contest has ended but the pumpkins are still on display.  

Please make sure your child turns in his/her reading minutes on Monday so his/her hiker can move up the mountain.