If I Were President....

We wrote about what we would do if we were the president...

There were some really good ideas!

Election Day

We have been learning about the voting and the election process...We learned about registration cards, secret ballots, why we vote and who can vote...among many other things.
We voted in our classroom today and the results were....

Obama 16 votes
Romney 6 votes

Who did you vote for? 

Voter registration cards and secret ballots

Waiting in line to vote...just like adults!

Cookie Election 2012

Our class chose "candidates" for our favorite cookie.
We used an affinity diagram to group our candidates.

Our Cookie Candidates....

After our primary election we had to have a run-off election to determine our
2nd candidate.  We will be voting on Tuesday to see if our favorite cookie is 
M&M or Chocolate Chip. That will be a tough decision! 

Cookie Election Campaign Posters

Word Work Station Fun

Working together to put words in ABC......

Putting mixed up sentences in order.

Spiders....

Fact and Opinion

Verb/Adjective Poetry

Non-standard Measurement

Measuring with candy corn!

Fall Words and Sentences

We are using fall words to make sentences. Don't forget your capitals and punctuation!

Leaf Addition Flip Book

We practiced our addition facts by making a flip book...

Main Idea and Details

We read a book about Johnny Appleseed (John Chapman) and then talked about Main Idea and Details. We made a poster to show the main idea and
listed the important details. We learned that you have to decide what is most important and not important. Then each student made their own Johnny Appleseed and wrote the main idea and one or two details. 

Informational Text

We have been looking at different examples of informational text (non-fiction) and learning about the different text features.  The kids made apple diagrams and then labeled each part. 

Brain Breaks

We have been incorporating brain breaks into our day to keep our

brains awake and ready to learn!

Have your child teach you the ones they know...

Living and Non-living

The class has been learning the difference between living and non-living. We learned that living things have certain things in common....

1. Needs food 

2. Moves

3. Grows and changes

4. Make more like itself

We went outside and observed and collected data on some living and non-living things. 

 So cute with their clipboards too! 

We Are Scientists!

We have been learning about what it means to be a scientist.  We learned that scientists predict, collect data, observe, experiment, ask questions, and many other things. They realized that they are scientists too! 

I'm a scientist because I wonder....

A scientist is a person who.....

I'm a scientist because I collect data.

I'm a scientist because I ask questions.

I'm a scientist because I think and think.