What's New in Room 23

 

In Science, we learned about the Water Cycle and made water cycle bracelets, as well as learned a cute song about the water cycle.

 

 

In Language Arts, we are working on How-To writing.  These are pictures of our How to Blow A Bubble Writing.  We also wrote about how to be a pirate and are now working on how to make lemonade.  We will drink some lemonade on Tuesday!

 

The A to Z Countdown continues!  Above are pictures of the students who wore their favorite t-shirt on T is for T-shirt day. 

 

On Friday, WSE held it's annual talent show.  Above our some of our first graders dancing and singing with Elmo, aka Mrs. Dugan.  The lesson was "Don't Give Up!"

 

Thank you for stopping by!

~peace~

Mrs.  Dryzal

A to Z Countdown--All About Me

This picture slideshow personalized with Smilebox The students shown above were interested in sharing their autobiographies that we have been working on for about a week.  They did a great job sharing and writing their stories! Thanks for stopping by! ~peace~ Mrs. Dryzal

Reminders

 

-There will be no school for students on Wednesday, May 7th because of an Act 80 Day.

 

--The A to Z countdown will continue as stated on the original calendar that was sent home last week.  E day will just be extra recess at home! ;0)

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

 

 

Science--All About Soil

 

In Science, we have been learning about the kinds of soils.  We investigated clay, loam and sand.

 

 

Some students feeling the loam to determine it's texture and particle sizes. 

 

Science seems to be the class's favorite class of the day! 

 

For our investigation we used this booklet from Taylor Bocook

 

Thanks for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Miss Summerville's Visit

 Miss Summerville just returned from her journey of student teaching in New Zealand and came back to us!  We didn't get to tell her good-bye in February due to the snow days, so we took this chance to give her a "proper" send off into the world of education.  Above, she is sharing a slide show of her time in New Zealand. 

 

Opening her gift basket....

 

....filled with classroom supplies....

 

.....a personalized candy jar....

 

 

...the book I Knew You Could....

 

....a print with all of our thumbprints as the leaves, so she never forgets us....

 

 

...and All The Places You'll Go by Dr. Seuss.

 

 

 

Our class

 

We wish Miss Summerville all the best!  Congratulations Miss Summerville on your graduation from

UPJ!  We are proud of you!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal

Spelling Lesson 29

Spelling Lesson 29 Word List

 

mom

 

dad

 

brother

 

sister

 

baby

 

family

 

people

 

said

 

Test Date:  Wednesday, April 16th due to the Easter Vacation

Study Nightly!

The Week in Review

 

This week we were learning about the three types of energy in Science.  They are Light, Heat and Sound Energy.  On Tuesday, we did the Hershey Kiss Heat Experiment, a freebie on TpT.  The children made a hypothesis about what would happen to the Hershey's Kiss in their open hand and what would happen to the candy in their closed hand.  After 5 minutes, we recorded our results.  You can see in the photo below that the chocolate kiss in the closed hand melted, which was a result of the heat the body produces.  

 

 

 

 

 

In Math, we are finishing up our unit on Fractions.  This week we made Fractionpillars, which I still need to photograph, played Fraction Bingo, compared Fractions and did some work with Smarties and fractions.    The children seemed to really enjoy this activity.  Our Assessment will be on Monday.

 



 

In Language Arts, we finished our Easter Bunny vs. The Tooth Fairy:  Who Has the Tougher Job? Opinion writing assignment.  Next week, we will be do an Opinion piece based on the story The Easter Egg by Jan Brett. 

 

We are also working in PATHS on making positive decisions and not letting our emotions cause us to act inappropriately. 

 

Thank you for stopping by!

 

~peace~

Mrs. Dryzal