Valentine's Day Week!

This week was super busy!

We worked on idioms in skills block. The kiddos thought this was super funny! Figurative language can  be tricky, but not for my smart cookies! To practice, I gave pairs of students an idiom. Each pair had to think of the literal meaning, draw a picture, and then write the figurative meaning. They just couldn't get enough of this! Take a look:

 

In reading we are working on text structure. This can be super tricky.  Here is a chart we used to distinguish the different types:

We will be continuing with this again this week. Students should be able to read any piece of text and decide which text structure the author chose to show his/her information.

We also had a lot of Valentine's Day fun! We created love comics in the morning, did fraction conversation hearts in math, created fun owl Valentine bags, exchanged Valentines, had a heart stacking contest, decorated cupcakes, and made heart weavings! Phew, what a busy and memorable day!

This week's recap!

Even though there was only four days, we had a busy week!

In math we are learning to tell time to the minute and work through elapsed time word problems. We have a helper we call "Judy." This clock has become an old friend and the kids love when she comes out!

 We also did a fun scavenger hunt round the room practicing different elapsed time problems. They had to find all the numbers and then solve the problems. This was an awesome way to get the kiddos walking around and doing math at the same time!

  In reader's workshop, we were all moody! We learned how authors can create images and descriptive writing to create a mood for the reader. We used our learning scale to gauge where we are are and where we want to get to. Check it out:

 Then, we took a boring sentence and jazzed it up according to different moods. The kids did a fantastic job coming up with descriptive words!

To finish out our mood study, the students worked in pairs to read stories, find words that made them feel a certain way, and then color a mood ring according to the mood of the text. They had such a blast with this project and did a wonderful job! Here is the finished product:

We had a special birthday this week! He turned double digits and brought us some yummy cupcakes to celebrate!

 In skills block, we studied analogies and multiple meaning words. For multiple meaning words, we created "M&M's" with words and wrote a sentence using each meaning. We then of course ate M&Ms to celebrate our knowledge of multiple meaning words!

We had a great week and can't wait until Monday!