Rainbow Fish

We read Rainbow Fish and summarized the story using first, next, then, and last.
Then we made our own rainbowfish complete with a shiny scale.

Months of the Year Book

We reviewed the months of the year and each student illustrated one month and labeled it.

Froggy!

To celebrate letter F, we read Froggy books with flashlights with our 2nd Grade reading buddies. Then I read Frogs by Gail Gibbons and we created a Venn Diagram comparing Froggy to a real frog. We also made TLC frogs.

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Season Tree Map

To continue our study of months and to reinforce seasons that my students are learning about in Science, we created a tree map showing what months are in what season. We read A Children's Calendar ( a book of poems for each month) and discussed new vocabulary and what kinds of things occur in each month. The students used clip art to identify holidays, weather, and activities we do in each month. For more practice the students used the Lakeshore science kit Weather and Seasons to sort pictures by which season they occur in.

Birthday Graph

To begin our study of months in math, we learned about our birthdays. We collected data and created a graph to show what month we were born in.

United States Symbols

In Social Studies this week Ms. Palomo ( teaches Social Studies in Spanish to my class and hers) taught about United States Symbols to go along with our celebration of letter U. The students read books and created art projects to represent each symbol. Here is an example of their work on my Social Studies content board.

Upside Down Day

To end our week celebration of letter U, we had an upside down day. We wore something upside down, read George Upside Down and made upside down cupcakes for snack.

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Pattern Hunt

We went on a hunt around the school for patterns. We found patterns on bulletin borders, the walls, the brick pillars and the windows in our school. Then the kids made a pattern bead bracelet and told our friends what kind of pattern they made using letters.

                                                          Boy Girl Boy Girl Boy Girl (ABABAB)

                                                          Light, Dark Light, Dark (ABAB)

                                                  

Word Work Station

I needed a English/Spanish word work station for bilingual centers. So I used a making words sheet that I got from a first grade teacher at my school. The kids make the words with magnetic letters, stamp the words, and write the words. My kids use our current weeks word wall words in English and Spanish.

Big Underwear Day!

To help celebrate letter U this week we had a Big Underwear Day. We wear boxer shorts over our clothes and read the book Underwear. The students decorate their own paper underwear to look like their underwear and fill in the sentence to describe it. We discussed and I wrote a story map about the main characters, setting, problem and solution. In this story the Zebra and the Orangutan love big underwear, but the buffalo does not. He is grumpy and even the bugs that stay on his back leave him. The zebra and the orangutan bet the buffalo that he can not say underwear 10 times without laughing. He does it and starts laughing and can not stop. Then he loves big underwear as much as his grassland friends.