Rock Hound Mrs. Rengler

Mrs. Rengler and her family have spent 30 years as Rock Hounds. She claims this is a fabulous family hobby and highly recommends this hobby to you and your family.

She taught us about "tumbling" rocks in rock tumblers which polishes and shines the rocks.

Mrs. Rengler gave each of us a baggie full of polished rocks of our choice.

 

Mrs. Rengler showed us the jewelry her husband made with polished rocks.

 

We really enjoyed our time with this Rock Hound who taught us we were Pebble Puppies because we were new to rock studies. A big thanks to Mrs. Rosengren for setting up our visit with Mrs. Rengler.

And the Survey Says...

In math, we have been learning how to take surveys, use tally marks, make tables, read and make pictographs or bar graphs. Then, we learned how to analyze the results we found and make comparison statements or answer comparison questions.

During the 3rd and 4th grade lunch, we went in and asked them what was their favorite pet: dog, kitten, panda, tiger. Dogs won!

We also took class surveys and then worked with partners to make tables.

Here are the finished products.

Presidents' Day

 

We finished our Presidents' Day Projects last week. We run out of time in Feb to get all of our social studies units done because of Parent Conference Week and Presidents' Day Break.

Students learned how to take a nonfiction book and use an organizational web to summarize the facts. This is done together as a class. This is also the prewrite portion of our biography reports for report writing. 

 

After the organizational web is completed, we work in pairs to write our drafts. Then we use the ARMS and CUPS methods for revising and editing:

Revising

Add

Remove

Move

Substitute

 

Editing

Capitalize

Order

Punctuation

Spelling

 

Next, we write our published version on the publishing paper.

Finally, we complete our craftivity and viola!

Love Your Library Bookmarks

The artists in our class entered some very crafty and clever bookmarks.

The second grade winner was from our class was this wonderful entry. The winning bookmark was laminated and she earned a prize from the Library Staff. Congratulations!

Dr. Seuss Day

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CS1cQQgeqJg

Justin Bieber reads The Cat in the Hat

 

 We've got pencils, erasers, bookmarks, stickers, and of course ... BOOKS!

...Oh, and a funny looking teacher.

Here is our sample. We were to read at least three Dr. Seuss books and then write their titles on our craftivity. We are working on learning which words to capitalize in a title and improving our cutting and pasting skills.

Crazy Hair Day!

These crazy kids and their crazy hair had a crazy good time today!

Mary Lou Who???

There's more than one way to make a Mohawk!

Then there are those who are just the creative types!

What will you do with your hair next year?

Navigator Awards

Act Safely

Show Respect

Be Responsible

The Navigator Award Winners!

Congratulations!

Our class won the Golden Clock Award for the fewest tardy slips for the month! Yay Team 206!