ABC Shell Match: FREE ON TPT

http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Ocean-shell-ABC-match

Some of my summer school students matched the  shells today during reading time. There is a recording sheet!

Octopuses

On Thursday of last week we learned about octopuses. First, we read an octopus book and then filled in the chart...can... have... eat.... Last we made the octopus and made seaweed and wrote our facts.

Sharks

On Wednesday, we learned about sharks. First, I read a shark book. Next, we thought about what sharks have... can... eat...Then we turned our chart into sentences for our shark nonfiction page for our All About Ocean Animals book.

The last shark was made by a child that is learning English.... he is an NEP. The second to last shark the child had trouble keeping up the pace and transfering the words, so I wrote the words with a highlighter to help him.



Seahorses

On Tuesday we learned about seahorses. First we read the morning message and filled in the missing letters and wrote what we knew about seahorses on a sticky note.

Next, I read a book about seahores and the kids told me what they can, have and eat and I wrote it on a chart paper.

Then we turned each column into sentences and wrote the facts down that we learned.



Crabs

The next week of ESOL summer school we read nonfiction books about ocean animals. We read one each day and wrote facts about the animal and made a craft.

CRABS

To start everyday we read our morning message and fill in missing letters and answer the question at the bottem by writng on sticky notes.

 

We made a crab out of a paper plate and wrote words that rhyme with crab on it.



We made a chart about crabs.... what can they do... what do they have.... and what do they eat...
We used the chart to make sentences/facts about crabs.

We had a great time learning about crabs!!

OCEAN SUMMER SCHOOL UNIT

To start our ocean animal unit we read some fiction books about fish: The Rainbow Fish and Pout Pout Fish. We completed these activites.



 We drew the pout pout fish from Denna Jumps unit and wrote about how we feel when we are sad.

Here is another example of pout pout fish and kiss kiss fish. We made connections to the story.

The Rainbow Fish

 We also read The Rainbow Fish by: Marcus Phister and made a prediction before we read the story about what we think Rianbow Fish looks like and then we drew what he actually looks like.

We drew our names and made each letter into a rainbow.

I just posted a landform unit on teachers pay teachers.. check it out..
It includes: venn diagrams, KWL chart, can/have/are chart, and All About landforms book...
http://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Landforms-unit

I just added 2 ocean theme activities to teachers pay teachers. Check them out!!
One is an ABC match and the other is related to the math common core counting to 120.

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Summer!!!

Happy Summer!! I hope everyone is having a great summer. I am getting ready to post pictures of my classroom and ideas for ocean theme classroom.

I will also add ideas/you tube videos to the grammar section and update the other sections.

Important Dates

v  April 26^th –Chick-fil-A Night

v  April 30^th-PTA food drive starts; please  bring in canned food

v  May 3^rd- kindergarten registration 1-6

v  May 4^th –Hat day if you bring a dollar

v  May 8^th- Field day 12”15-2:15 You are welcome to come and join the fun

v  May 9, 10^th, and 11^th- PROGRESS checks 8:30-till around 10

v  May 14^th- Writer’s Celebration 1:00-2:00 (PLEASE plan on coming to hear your child read his/her stories that he/she  has written this year) More information to come home soon

v  May 16^th Author visit

v  May 18^th- Market Day 9:00-10:30 You are welcome to come and shop with your child.

v  May 22- End of the year party 10-10:30

v  May 23^rd- LAST DAY OF SCHOOL

Reminders

Conferences/ Early Release: Monday Feb. 27th and Feb 28

Benchmark Testing:
Wednesday, Feb. 29
Thursday, March 1
Friday, March 2
Please make sure your child is on time to school and well rested.

March 11th: Daylight Saving

March 12th: NO SCHOOL

  Jan. 23-27 

Look what we are studying…

 LANGUAGE ARTS:

           Reading : Daily 3: Reading Stations, Read to Self and Partner Read

                Reading Skill: characters, beginning, middle, and end; problem and solution, retelling stories, main idea, making connections and asking questions, CAUSE AND EFFECT, MAIN IDEA   

                Word Study: R-controlled vowels (ir, ur, er, ar)

    Writing: Nonfiction stories: How-To writing

Grammar: verbs (action word), adjectives (describing words), nouns, synonyms, antonyms, compound words

 MATH: money (identifying the coins and value, trading coins: 10 pennies for a dime, 5 pennies for a nickel; making and counting combinations of coins, dollar bills- identifying, trading)   

       SCIENCE: Light and Shadows 

100 days of school

100 day snack

 100 day projects