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.

Our Learning in Photos

We have been busy little bees!  Our first English/Language Arts unit will be coming to an end in about a week.  Here is what we have been doing in the classroom:

Sometimes I post a "word of the day" that the students must use in a complete sentence.  We use the students' work (anonymous) as a learning experience and make corrections as needed.  Some days, we go above and beyond and make our sentences more "juicy" by adding adjectives.

We have been doing a lot of comparing and contrasting with venn diagrams.  We have used venn diagrams for stories and characters.

Our focus, in whole group, has been blends, digraphs, and words with bonus letters.

Students worked in pairs to do a word hunt in Fly Away Home.

Finding evidence in the text is a skill we will be working on, a lot, this year.  For this activity, students used a word to describe a character and then had to include the evidence (proof) from the story.

We have also done a little visualization while I read the poem "Your World."

I introduced the iPads last week.  Right now, students are doing Raz-Kids, iReady (reading) lessons, and Wixie on the iPads during their independent work time.

Next time you are in our hallway, please take a peek at the students' letters and watercolor artwork.  They turned out so amazing!

Some students have completed our first Wixie project--vocabulary cards for playing a matching game.

Most students will match the word and picture to a definition but some students will just match a word to its picture.

As always, thank you for stopping by!