Action Verb Poetry

After working on Action Verbs in writing we worked on writing our own Action Verb poems. Mrs. Husketh helped us scan and record our poems so we could share them with the world! Enjoy and turn up your volume!

Congratulations! (part 1)

It's time for Manatee Award Winners again! It felt so nice to start our Friday with an assembly to celebrate all our hard work and effort.
Congratulations go to.... Daniel for working hard in Math, Quinn for working hard in Literacy and PE, Kristina for working hard using her Manatee Manners, Stephen for working hard in the Media Center and the whole class for working hard in Spanish!

Stephen and Quinn with their awards!

More pics to come of the other award winners!

And last, but not least....

Stephen was super excited to check out his birthday book! Happy birthday, Stephen!  

What's the Matter?

We have started a new research science topic this week- matter. We are exploring the properties of solids, liquids and gases. In this activity we were exploring baggies filled with air, water and a tennis ball to discover some very important properties.

Checking out the tennis ball

Checking out the baggie of water

One question on the observation sheet was "Can you pass a craft stick through it?"

We recorded our observations on this sheet and concluded that we had explored a solid, liquid and gas!

Science Day 2011

We had a great time being scientists on Science Day! We learned a lot about pollution, optical illusions, water quality, unusual animal behaviors and veterinary science. Here are some pictures from our adventures that day!

In the class, "Who polluted the Eno River?"

"Who polluted the Eno?"

Water Quality class

Checking out tools that Vets use

Adventures in Science

Fall Fun Day

The kiddos had a blast during Fall Fun Day Monday. The class went to each 2nd grade room during the day and learned all about pumpkins, corn, animals and much more. Here are some pictures of all the fun that happened in our room at the end of the day!

Animal Measurement

Making Bat Clips

Working on Animal Research Books

Making Owls

More Bat Clips



Reading and Dancing



Animal Research

Lovely Finished Owl

Labeling a Spider's Body Parts

Some of our finished work drying in the hall

Weather Tools Voicethread

As a culminating project for our Weather unit, the class worked in small groups with Mrs. Husketh to create a Weather Tools Voicethread. For each tool we studied there is a picture and then the students in the group described the tool, how it was made and how it helps us learn about Weather. This was a wonderful way to integrate science, writing, technology and work on our oral fluency.  After more than a week of hard work, we all watched our final project last Wednesday. We can't wait to work on some more voicethreads!  Watch and listen to our first Voicethread below; turn up your volume.

We're going on a NOUN hunt!

In writing this week we are learning that a noun is a person, place or thing. To introduce this concept Ms. Lopez showed the class some items from a basket and the students had to try to figure out what they had in common.



Ms. Lopez's Basket

The students really stretched their brains trying to think of what these items all had in common. At last Ms. Lopez had to reveal to the class that what these items all had in common was that they were all NOUNS! There was a ball (thing), a stuffed animal (thing), a picture of Ms. Lopez and Harrison (people), a staple remover (thing), a picture of the mountains (place), a picture of a boat dock (place), and a manatee (thing). After working on some paper practice to strengthen their Noun identifying skills, each student went on his/her own "Noun Hunt" searching for one thing, person, and place. After finding their nouns, students shared their baskets on the carpet playing a Noun guessing game.

The students really enjoyed finding Nouns around our classroom! Have some learning fun by going on a Noun Hunt at your house or in your neighborhood!

Congratulations!

 

Congratulations to these students for recieving Manatee Awards for the month of October! Eva got 2 awards: one for working hard in Literacy and one for PE. Landus recieved his award for working hard in Math and William got his for working hard using his Manatee Manners. Keep up the great work, kiddos!

The World According to Humphrey!

We are almost done reading our first, but definitely not our last, Humphrey book! The class LOVES Humphrey and all the adventures he goes on to help his friends. Check out the "Learning Links" tab for a link to the website created by Betty Birney, the author.

P.S. Ms. Lopez is coming up with a "top secret" way to celebrate reading the first book, so stay tuned for more on that later!

More Math Pics!

Working on Fact Fluency on the computer

Math Game

Manny joined in for this game!

Enjoying a math book

We love math!

The kids of Room 509 really enjoy math centers. Each day small groups work with a teacher and then have a chance to work on math games, problem solving, paper practice, fact practice or read math books. 

Small Group Work

Working on Fact Fluency with Flashcards

Math Games

Reading a Math book

Place Value Puzzles

Congratulations!

We had our first Manatee Awards assembly this Friday to celebrate a great start to the school year. Each month students are recognized for their hard work in Literacy, Math and Manatee Manners.  Congratulations to our first recipients: Jaya for her hard work in Literacy, Nia for her hard work in Math, Hans for his hard work using his Manatee Manners!

Meet Manny, Our Class Mascot!

"Manny", our class mascot, travels home each week with a different student. He has had some great adventures so far with Daniel, Maggie, Kristina and Tayshawn. With Daniel, Manny had guitar lessons; with Maggie, Manny played with her manatee, Moon; With Kristina, Manny read lots of books and with Tayshawn, Manny ate a lot of different foods! The students are being very responsible with Manny by taking care of him, loving him and writing all about his adventures in his journal.

Mini-Meteorologists

 In research we have been learning about weather and the tools that meteorologists use to measure it.  So far we have made two tools: an anemometer (a tool used to measure wind speed) and a wind vane (a tool used to measure wind direction). 



The kids have been working together as teams to make their instruments, trying them out and recording their data.

We hope to get in supplies (glass jars, 2-liter bottles, Styrofoam plates, and balloons) to make another anemometer, a hygrometer, a barometer and a rain gauge. Please help us out if you can!

Extra, extra! Read all about our week!

Make sure you visit our "Weekly News" for our first Live Report from Room 509! We worked hard to write a summary of our week. Enjoy!

Reporting Live from Room 509!

Be sure to check out the new tab "Weekly News".  The class will be using this page to report what fun, exciting and challenging things we have learned during the week.  Look for our first "Live Report" later next week!

Pajama Day!

We reached our first goal of 100 points earned with Manatee Tickets last week. So this week we were able to celebrate by having our first class reward: Pajama Day! On Wednesday, we were all comfy in our PJ's while we learned. Now we have to decide on a new goal and reward to strive towards!

Ms. Lopez and Miss K in PJ's!

Cute kiddos!