No pictures this week, but I did want to give you a quick update of our week. On Monday, in honor of Earth Day, we wrote letters to Mother Earth and created posters about the 3 Rs. Over lunch, we joined Mrs. Swyers class with lunch in our room while watching a live video chat with Jane Goodall about her experience living with chimpanzees. It was a fun, laid back kind of day!
Tuesday and Wednesday were filled with STAAR testing in the morning. On Tuesday afternoon, we watched a video reading of Dr. Seuss's "The Lorax" and on Wednesday afternoon, we began a fun tangram challenge in math.
Thursday we used the laptops all morning and the kids were really engaged in several activities. We studied life cycles of frogs, birds and butterflies, and students chose one to draw in their science notebooks. Next, they learned all of the different ways that caterpillars can protect themselves from predators in their environment. Students used Pebble Go (an online resource provided by our school library) to research different customs around the world and created a main idea / supporting details outline in Google Classroom. If time allowed, students learned some dictionary skills with an online lesson and quiz. And finally, my early finishers enjoyed writing creative poetry with a fun interactive tool online. After a late lunch and afternoon recess (changes in our schedule due to 5th grade STAAR testing), we planted seeds that we will hopefully observe growing over the next few weeks and be able to transplant to our grade level raised garden box.
On Friday morning, students worked with their partners to finish up their adaptations project we began a couple of weeks ago. They then chose to read a Time For Kids on their own or with a partner. Then, I gave them some much deserved extra recess time! During math time on Friday, they enjoyed working with partners again to finish up the tangram challenge from Wednesday and solve some calculator riddles.
I hope everyone has a great weekend! Only six more weeks until summer, I can hardly believe it!
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