Our kindergarten classes either read LMNOPeas or Click Clack, Quackity Quack. Obviously these little boys and girls are practicing their alphabet and letters! After reading, they got their first chance of the year to use our Promethean board. We practiced matching up lower case letters with upper case letters. The mama kangaroos had a capital letter and the joeys had a lower case letter. Also, I was surprised that at least one student in all 4 classes knew that a baby kangaroo is called a joey!
First graders focused on text-to-world connections this week. I decided to use one of my very favorite books: The Man Who Walked Between the Towers. This story amazes me every single time. Many students had heard the story, but not many knew that it was true. It was very easy to make connections with tight rope walkers in circuses, with the twin towers in NYC, and with the real-life Philippe Petit. I showed them some pictures and they were in awe!
Second graders practiced using Destiny Quest on the iPads to locate a given picture book and chapter book in our library. Usually I don't teach this skill until the end of 2nd grade, but these kids rocked it! They are amazing! I used a screencast to teach them, then they worked with a partner to locate the books.
Third graders have a boring update, as they are still working on searching for and checking out books in their Lexile level. We'll move on to something more fun next week, I promise!
Fourth graders continued working in Bloxels. This week, we reread the book we read last week, and talked about the background, foreground, and middle ground in the setting. In Bloxels, we built the things that would be in the middle ground of our game. Next week we'll work on the background, and the following week we'll do the foreground and our game will be finished! I seriously love Bloxels!
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