Tuesday, December 21, 2010

Leopard Glogs by Group 2

This post was written by Alyssa and Natalie.

We read a story abut leopard and did an outline abut each chapter.  Then we did a glog and shard it whit the world.


Here's what Isaac wrote... and below is the glog that Isaac and Josh made.

We got the  pitures from   gogle  that were free to ues.
We wrote facts from the outline that were from the book.
I like glogster because you can draw and I want to try it out  next time.

Monday, December 20, 2010

Expert Reporters


We've been learning about hibernation.  Last week, we focused on the Hedgehog.  We read different non-fiction texts, including our Weekly Reader.  We've been utilizing the Digital Editions and the students thoroughly enjoy the video clips to enhance the articles.  Today, we looked at four different animals that hibernate.  Student groups needed to read a selection from a non-fiction book and come up with to report for the class.  Here's their finished products.....

Dormouse


Groundhogs


Frogs


Woodchucks

Friday, December 10, 2010

Big Paper....Big Smiles

Group 3's re-cap of Looking After Chicks by Sarah O'Neil.  Some of the other reading groups had been working in the hall independently with their books and large chart paper.  Who knew that working by themselves on the carpet with a big sheet of paper could be so motivating.  This is what they came up with....

Thursday, December 9, 2010

Fact Fun

Group 5 read Kangaroos by Monique Martin in small reading group.  They reviewed the text and facts about the animal.  Here is the podcast riddle on the subject that includes their favorite facts:

Friday, December 3, 2010

Shape Hunt

Today we went on our annual Photo Scavenger Hunt for shapes.  We are learning about geometrical shapes during math class.  Stay tuned to see our photos from our adventure....we are working on creating our own VoiceThreads in Computer Lab.  Thank you to Grama Linda, our Foster Grandparent, and Mr. Carls, the tech integrator, for helping us with this special digital camera day!