Saturday, January 18, 2014

Oh, the Weather Outside is Frightful...

We have had some fun this week learning about weather.  I put a Prezi together that you may be able to view on your computer.  If not, I am also putting the links that we used this week to learn about the water cycle and clouds. 
 Weather Prezi

 Water Cycle Video on youtube 

Water Cycle Song 

3 Types of Clouds 

Below are the  cloud pictures the students made.  We learned about cumulus, cirrus, and stratus clouds.  When the class came in from recess on Friday they told me there were stratus clouds in the sky!



We also spent time this week learning about MLK Jr. through books, our Scholastic News, and videos.  Each student wrote about his/her own dream for the future.  I think the writings show a lot of compassion and consideration for other people and animals.



Fun Friday was filled with fabulous activities to reinforce what we learned this week. (Ask your child why that phrase is called alliteration!)

We are playing a dice game to practice our place value skills to 1000!

We are listening to Country Mouse, City Mouse by Jan Brett, our Author of the Month.

We are reading a poem and identifying the rhyming words.

This center is where we made the cloud pictures.

The ipad center is a favorite- everyone can choose their own program to play.

Every Friday we make a book for the Star Student to take home.  We like to write nice things about our classmates.

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Sometimes the teacher takes a break and lets one of the students take over. :-)  Here we are listening to a Clifford book from the Scholastic Storia program.  A student is running the interactive program and calling other students up to participate.  Check out the Scholastic website to download your own free Storia account for your computer.               I hope everyone enjoys the long weekend.  We sure have had a lot of days off recently, haven't we?