The Water Cycle

Was one of their favorite units and very busy too.

Made a chart with the vocab words

Watched water cycle videos

Sang the water cycle songs

Made a water drawing with labels in our Science journals.

Made a science foldable in our journals. 

made a science writing in our science 

journals using all the knolwedge and resources we have.

Next we made water mobiles with labels and we closed our unit with the water cycle in a bottle!!!

Living and non living .... Series vivos y objectos inerte

This is absolutely one of my favorite lessons because students have much to say :)

Together we create a list of the things objects can do...as a check for understanding, they draw one of example each category in an index card

Objective

We will illustrate an example of a living and a non living object. 

Composing numbers

The students are required to combine two numbers to create a bigger number.

They helped me create and solve problems with dice and paper pieces...

"Two small numbers ..together..make a bigger number"

The students created there own number bonds...

The Wind

Windy Weather

I began my lesson by assessing the students' previous knowledge.

They are aware of the wind and it's effects on the surroundings HOWEVER they all had the HUGE misconception that the "clouds" make the wind"! But don't many adults do too?

Wind video

If you don't have this book in your library, BUY IT!

It is simple and wholesome... it explains nature of wind and provides many examples of wind activity in our world. The students enjoyed it!

We created an anchor chart "Wind",
As the sun heats the air rises, and cool air flows go down.
Hot and cool air pressures in the atmosphere are going in circles and it causes wind!
The students completed a simple check for understanding by illustrating the wind in an index card.

Next, they completed a journal to reinforce the topic learned and they illustrated their own object moving in the wind.

Last, and most fun of all, we made windsocks!
And who knew, out of the entire week the day we made these, it was windy: PERFECT!

Materials needed for our windsocks:
Paper bag with two openings
Streamers
Yarn
Whole puncher (optional)

Make a windsock

If time allows we will run an experiment with a fan and 4 light weight objects to test Which objects flies the farthest?

What is in the wind?

Life cycle

Seasons

Seasons

Rocks and Soil

Read-a-thon

So my students tested all week this very important test.. As a reward for perfect attendance we throwed a read- a-thon celebration!!!

Here's what we did...

First, went we went to the library to pick out books...

Next they laid with their throws on the floors and carpet to read.. Read.. Read...

After that they wrote the titles of their stories on a list to take home and show mom ;)

As a fun activity I read aloud the sequel to the first book we read this year... The kissing hand and a pocket full of kisses by Audrey Penn

Then we made a Chester mask...

This one is mine...

And these were theirs ...lol...

They came out neat... All I gave them was plates and CP... They did the rest :)

We also read a book on shapes as a coral reading ... Which they loved... And we completed a second craft... A train of shapes... IOU the pics because time ran out ... The bell rang and we dismissed,.. Our train wasn't rolling quite yet ;)

These little guys came to school too!!!

Christmas Math

My Fractions Christmas Booklet

It is simple, fun and the best part is they learn about whole, half, sharing, splitting, equal parts, etc...

Steps: give students pictures of christmas ornaments (tree, bell, gift, cookie, star, ornament)

-color

-cut in half

-paste in CP to make a booklet :)

The pretties

you just have those wonderful workers...

and........

the

bloopies:

Day and Night Lessons

Day and night/El dia y la noche

hands on learning with the sun and the moon :)

Day 1: Vocab and class chart/display

Vocabulary words are the first thing you should have and introduce.

Night and day 

Pocket chart with vocabulary for this unit.

I use an image for every word in my classroom. Use butcher paper for words... I was originally going to draw and post student drawings on paper... however a neater idea came up.

Use blue hanger to display student drawings of day activities and a black hanger to display night activities.

I used string and paper clips to hang work. :) 

Day 2: Story and craft

Read a this wonderful story. Followed by a craft such as the one below. 

Materials: blue and black paper, star stickers, yellow, blue and white crayons, cotton bal and tape (nxt time i'll tape the crafts from the back side).

Day 3: Journal and craft

Each student got two pictures to classify as day or night and complete a sentence stem.

Idea off Pinterest.. Kids loved it :) 

Day 4:  Earth spinner craft... Students absolutely understood Earth rotation makes day and night... The sun stays put... Earth is the moving one!

I give this craft a 10 and thank my wonderful district's sciences trainings for the idea!

Day 5:

Disney Pixar's Day and Night video found on Youtube and writing activity.

Other materials