We can VISUALIZE!
Friday
Science Sink and Float
What do YOU think happens when you drop a penny, bean, marble, cork, and grape into oil, water, and honey?? Check it out!
Monday
Geography
We are working on a unit called Social Studies Alive and our focus is on Geography. Today we worked with GoogleEarth and the students LOVED it! http://www.google.com/earth/index.html. Ask you child about our mission, getting lost, and finding our way back to the correct hemisphere and continent.
Tuesday
Learning and Learning
Brain WORKOUT
We have been working hard on each and every lesson. In Math we have learned about graphs and how to read them. We also have discussed numeration, place value and money. Communities have been our main focus in Social Studies. We have studied their laws, their importance, and history. We will be learning about geography next. In science we have discussed tools and procedures. We played a procedure games, made a tools foldable, classified objects, and much more. We have also learned about the States of Matter. Ask about our solid, liquid, and gas picnic. Now we are focusing on mixtures. Our activities include painting with salt, making pancakes, and a virtual investigation. What fun!! Language arts has been full of work. Nouns, verbs, background knowledge, making connections, and visualizing. Stay tuned to see what is Coming Soon!
We have been working hard on each and every lesson. In Math we have learned about graphs and how to read them. We also have discussed numeration, place value and money. Communities have been our main focus in Social Studies. We have studied their laws, their importance, and history. We will be learning about geography next. In science we have discussed tools and procedures. We played a procedure games, made a tools foldable, classified objects, and much more. We have also learned about the States of Matter. Ask about our solid, liquid, and gas picnic. Now we are focusing on mixtures. Our activities include painting with salt, making pancakes, and a virtual investigation. What fun!! Language arts has been full of work. Nouns, verbs, background knowledge, making connections, and visualizing. Stay tuned to see what is Coming Soon!
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| Painting with Salt |
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| Class Constitution |
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| Stories from the heart, Tools Foldable, Design a Dollar, Graphs, Vocabulary, Solid Liquid Gas Picnic, Community Zoom |
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| Place Value |
Mrs. Mackey's Classroom Happenings
Mackey's Classroom Happenings
GETTING TO KNOW YOU- We have already begun many fun and exciting things the first few weeks of school. We started with getting to know each other in our All About Me News Reports. Students will now have a place to showcase their individual work of choice throughout the year.
JOBS- Our classroom jobs were chosen together and established to create an environment of community. Each week students will rotate their jobs in order to the learn responsibilities and rules of both our classroom as well as our school.
CENTERS-I'm sure many of our students will tell you that centers is their favorite part of the day. This is great because centers are not only fun, but educational and enriching. We rotate among 12 Literacy and 12 Math Centers throughout the week. Our centers range from working online with their textbook to poetry pizza pans. Students truly are engaged and learning at centers... and having fun at the same time!
NOTEBOOKS- We are keeping interactive notebooks this year for Math, Reading & Writing, and Science & Social Studies. These notebook are filled with information, foldables and activities we are working on in class. They are a great resource in studying for a test and very helpful when students need to recall information. Make sure to ask to see these notebooks at Open House.
Class Library- Over the years I have collected many books and begun a wonderful class library. Students are able to choose books by genre and focus on their "just right" book when reading independently or in a group.
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