January Update

The month of January has come and gone, but our class was busy with many fun learning activities.  With snow days (cold days) and my home computer not working for awhile,  I am late getting this posted; however, we thought you would like to see some of our work.

I brought in some of my snow globe collection to show the students.  Then, we read the book, "Snow Globe Family" by Jane O'Conner.  The students enjoyed imagining what it would be like to live in a snow globe and spent time sharing ideas.  After choosing an idea, they completed a graphic organizer and then wrote their story.  Finally, everyone created a snow globe to illustrate their story.

     

Our biggest writing project of the month involved researching facts about arctic animals.  The boys and girls worked with a partner to read through books and then write facts on sticky notes.  These notes were later placed on corresponding pages in their report booklets to aid students in their writing.

And finally, after being postponed because of "snow days" and "too-cold days" we celebrated the one hundredth day of school.  A yummy "Hundredth Day" snack awaited students on their desks upon arriving at school.  We also completed pages in a booklet with such items as our favorite 100 things to eat, what we'd buy with $100.00, what we'd look like when we are 100, what we'd want 100 of, etc.

Students made crowns that contained 100 fingerprint dots!

Students displayed their collections of 100 items and everyone enjoyed touring the displays.

It was a fun ending to the month of January!