Writer's Spotlight on...Emme!

Emme is such a wonderful writer! We have been learning from Authors for the past two weeks! See if you can find any Author tricks that Emme used in her writing!

One evening, my mom was driving to pick me up from school. She demanded, "You go straight to bed after dinner!" I thought, "She's never like this. Maybe she is mad?"

Later on, Mom yelled, "Bed time!" really loud. I could hear her from all the way up stairs five floors up. There is 18 steps before the next floor and that is a lot, a lot, a lot, a lot!

Shortly after that, I got my pajamas and was going to put them on. They were princess Roseilina and then....

Soon, I saw something in them and then...

Last, I opened the box and then..it was a puppy! It was black and white!

100 year old portraits!

Be still my heart! I just can't get enough of these adorable 100 year old self portraits! I must give all the credit to a blog that I follow Around the Kampfire by Linda! 

Just take a look at these beauties! I could not help but laugh at these cute little creations!

Wait until you find your child's and read what they will be doing when they are 100 years old!

Writer's Spotlight on...Brady!

Brady is doing a fabulous job of adding "author tricks" which is our new reading goal for this unit. We have been studying authors and what they do in their writing. Check out his dialogue and ellipses too!

I was sleeping but then I woke up in the middle of the night. 

So I went to the bathroom. It was pitch black in there and I couldn't see a thing.

But then...the door was locked. I felt nervous like I was going to throw up. 

So, I called, "Mom, help. I'm stuck in the bathroom."

She finally found me and I got out!

Writer's Spotlight on....Nolan!

Nolan is such a fabulous writer! See if you can find some of his adjectives for his "important book" piece!

The important thing about snow is you play with it.

You can do anything with it.
The snow is good to make a snowman with.
Snow feels like a new blanket.
The snow is soft so you won't hurt your body parts. ( insert smile)

But the important thing about snow is you play with it.

Valentine's Day Party!

Thank you to all the parents that came to help out at our Valentine's Party! We had a great day!

We started by opening up our Valentine's Day bags! This was a highlight of our day!

We also ate some yummy snacks!

We created our own tic tac toe board! It came with a bag to store our game board pieces. 

We played "Pin the heart on Cupid!"

We shot cue tips out of straws and tried to get them into a bowl. It was a blast!

Almost Teagan!

Thank you again to everyone that helped! Also, a special thank you to Mrs. TenHave who organized our party! 

Happy Valentine's Day!

100's Day!

We made it to 100 days of school! Here are some fun stations we did in during our math time to celebrate being 100 days smarter!

At this station, we predicted how much 100 drops of water would look like in a cup! We added drops of water with a dropper and realized that 100 drops is NOT very much!

We played roll to 100!

We made 10, 10 groups to form squares of 100. 

We built a unifix cube train all the way into the 500's!

This station was our favorite! Our challenge was to build a structure out of marshmallows and toothpicks. We had 100 of each! 

We worked as a team!

This group had a great strategy, but when they let go...there went the structure!

Lexi and Cole had a great plan and worked together to get the tallest free standing structure!

Jason and Robin had a pretty good strategy as well!

Sierra and Andrew went for a strong base!

Today was a blast! This class continues to amaze me with their intelligence and their team work skills! I love to do these fun activities with them!