What is this?

Thursday, January 22, 2015

What is this and what can we use it for?

Teacher: What do you think this is?
Student M: It's a measuring box!
Student J: It looks like a truck.
Student C: We could put quarters in it!
 Teacher: Why would we put quarters in it?
Student T: When you go to the store it tells you how much it is?

Teacher: What happens if I put the cubes on one side and the rooster on the other side?
Student M: It got heavier and it tilted. It can measure what it weighs.
Student MP: Yeah, its tells you how heavy or light it is.

Teacher: What can we do with the cubes?
Student B: Put them in and count them.
Teacher: When do I stop putting the cubes in?
Student B: When both sides are the same!

Students continued to count while we put the cubes in  and they counted 15 cubes were the same as the rooster.
Teacher: What can we say about the rooster and the cubes in a sentence.
Student M: The rooster weighs 15 cubes!
Teacher: Boys and girls lets repeat the sentence together!
Everyone: The rooster weighs 15 cubes.

Welcome to the snowman factory!

Thursday, January 22, 2015

Students have been reading, discussing and learning about winter. We created a snowman factory with snow dough for students to explore and build their own snowman. The students have been discussing winter and the weather outside. We are discovering the seasons change and so does the weather. Students are identifying the changes in weather happen when the seasons change.
Teacher:What happens when it snows outside?
Student T said: It gets cold outside! BBBrrrr...
Student J said: You have to wear a hat, coat, gloves.
Student E said: You need the thing around your neck, a scarf!


Student A: I made a snowman! He is melting.
Teacher: Why did you make him melting?
Student A: He kept falling down, so I made my snowman in the shovel, now he won't fall down!



Where do animals go in the Winter?

 

Wednesday, January 14, 2015

 

Students are reading about and discussing Winter. We have read the stories The Mitten, The Hat, Every Season, and Warm Clothes. They created a web about Winter, discussed hibernating, student M said hibernating is when animals sleep in the winter. They talked about the words cold, freezing, snow, ice, mittens, gloves, boots, hats, snow pants, and a coat.

 

Student then identify the clothing in pictures that was needed to keep them warm when they are outside. We were able to put them in the order they should get dressed to go outside. We talked about animals wearing clothes like in the story and student J said Animals do not wear clothes people do!

 They were able to recall the story The Hat by Jan Brett. Student J said They go places to stay warm.

 

This is when are discussion began about where animals go in the winter and how they are able to keep warm. Students then read the story Sleep, Bear Sleep. We identified the different animals in the winter and where they went. Students discovered that some animals sleep in a cave, den and a burrow. They were excited to talk about a bear sleeping.

 

Student A said I made him a cave to stay warm and the rocks around the cave are fish in case he gets hungry!

 

Student R said We made a home for the bear and a dog. I made a ramp from them to climb in so they can get in and out.

 

 

 

 

Students M and Z said Our bear is hibernating because it is cold and winter. The front has a shower and the rocks are the water. His name is Freddie he likes to eat fish and berries, oh and honey! The rocks on the bottom by the cave are fish for Freddie to eat.

 

 

Student A said: My bear is sleeping in his cave!

 



January 6, 2015

 

What can I create with shapes?

Students read the story mouse shapes and were trying to use different shapes like the mice did in the story. Students then told me about what they created and how they used the shapes like the mice. Students were able to tell me about the story and create their own connection to literature by using the shapes to build. We created a connection for math and discussed the shapes in the story and students identified the shapes they were using to create their own image.

Students S: My fish lived in the bottle. He jumped in there! He was stuck and I could not get him out. My mom put him in the bowl with the turtle and he stinks really bad. They need a bath really bad. Then they need to have dinner.

Student A: I made a shark in the pool.

Teacher: Why did you make a pool for the shark?

Student A: The shark called my house and he asked me to make them one!

Student Z: I made the cat and my friends helped me make the three mice from the story.

Students J: We could make the animals out of shapes! Just like the story!

Student B: I made a scary mouse because it can scare the cat, Now he is a scaredy cat! I don't think he will come back.