Green Eggs and Ham!

We celebrated Dr. Seuss’ birthday on Friday by eating green eggs and ham (and some fruit and rolls too!).  It was delicious (so many compliments on my classroom made eggs!) and kids were also able to spend some time writing poems based on characters from the book – or Seuss-like characters they created.  Woot!  So much fun!

Out of My Mind

We started a new book!  Out of My Mind (by Sharon Draper) is about a young girl named Melody who has cerebral palsy and is unable to talk or walk.  She’s trapped inside of a body that doesn’t work, equipped with a photographic memory and the ability to remember everything that happens to her. 

Angles

180˚

270˚

360˚

Right Angle

We have been learning about angles and learned a few smooth moves to help us remember important angles that will help us solve problems. 

45 degrees

180 degrees

270 degrees

360 degrees

If you know these basic angles, you can figure out problems without having to measure the angle.

We have begun to use a protractor too.  They will continue to practice using the protractor in the next couple of weeks (in both lessons and math boxes).

Biography Notes

I love reading their label responses.  I learn so much about the books they are reading and this was no exception!

This is the first page we started to fill out once we started reading our biographies.  What did you learn?

After we took notes about the books we were reading, we needed to transfer that knowledge to 3x5 cards in order to be prepared for the wax museum.  Kids had to determine what information was important enough to make it onto an index card.  Most kids memorized the information for the museum!

We have spent a lot of time working on our biography book reports.  Because they will be oral reports (at our Living Wax Museum) we have a variety of things we are doing.  While reading the book, we have learned how to take notes as we read.  What’s important?  What is truly an INTERESTING fact?  We used a variety of strategies to take notes (including several graphic organizers) and kids discuss with one another things they are learning as we read. 

We have written about our person in our Reader’s Notebooks and practiced talking about them with partners.