Learning is Music to my Ears...

Alright! So I love integrating music into our learning...especially with new concepts! Below are some of our favorite head bopping songs we have been rocking out to this week! 

We just started talking about force, motion, and friction this week and this song was great! I had them do a beat the teacher game to see if they could find all the same pattern movements in the video as me! They WON! :) Yay!

Feel free to jam-out with our songs! :)

Crunchy..Munchy..Magical Lucky Charm Bars

Hello all!

So last Friday was St. Patricks Day and of course I couldn't resist do something fun in the afternoon! I hired a "student photographer" to take pictures during our baking of these magical bars! It is fun to see them get creative with their "shots". Below are some pictures of our bars in the making.

PS these are totally out of order :) 

 The kiddos had the giggles and so did I because they were so darn sticky! It also was funny because there was a rainbow that kept getting stuck all alone and dangling! 

I have a microwave in the backroom and our photographer followed me back their to watch me set the timer in 30 second intervals! Intervals is a vocabulary words we had been using in science a couple weeks ago...it is great to transfer that vocabulary over into our everyday uses! 

giggle..giggle. I bet you couldn't even guess who this is hiding behind my GIANT phone taking pictures. 

Once these yummy treats were set and cut we ate them while the kiddie cats presented their readers theaters!! I LOVE readers theater and the kids did too. We just did small groups and short fable versions of readers theater. Below are some videos of the kids presenting. 

It's Friday...Friday...Gotta Get Down on Friday!

Hello all!

I am so excited! We just had our kids who were gone from our last test, and retakers get done with their math money unit test! Before we took this unit test I told kids our class average goal should be to get above 90% as a class. Well.....WE MET OUR GOAL!

These smarty pants were so excited that we met our goal! Maybe I will even give them 10 minutes of free time this afternoon since we have been working so hard! 

Now that we are done with learning about money, we are onto learning about fractions! This will be a fun unit for the kids. We have only done a few activities so far and I have heard a lot of, "This is actually fun". I always say learning is SOOO fun. 

For the intro we watched a video and they took notes of things they think will be important for our vocabulary chart! They came up with a great list! 

Our focus this week has been on Folktales! We have been working with conflict and resolutions, setting, and authors point of view. We just finished up a Venn Diagram activity where we wrote the differences and similarities between The 3 Little Pigs and the True Story of the Three Little Pigs. Ask them about how they are different! 

Here are some directed drawings I taught the kids from last week! This is a character from the book, "If I Ran A Zoo" By Dr. Seuss

Lastly I thought I would just throw this out there.....your kiddos are only 78 days away from being 3rd graders! How crazy is this???