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Monday, January 30, 2012

Activate Prior Knowledge

Today marks the start of our Rain Forest Unit.  Step one: A Picture Walk.  We wrote down things we noticed, things we wondered, and questions to wake up what we already know about the Rain Forest.  Tomorrow is vocabulary day, then we get our learning logs.  This will be such fun because I have never done a Rain Forest Unit myself.

 This leaf, or is it a lizard, was particularly interesting to the class.

 We all immediately thought of Verdi when we saw this, which connected to Stellaluna.  So many connections!


Everyone spent a lot of time looking, speculating, questioning, sharing with the leaf/lizard picture.  Let's hope we find some answers.

Monday, January 23, 2012

Unexcused Absence

I have no excuses.  Well that's not true, I have a million, but that's no excuse.  The blog is back.  My New Year's Resolution= Blog on Monday's.  We have yet to have school on a Monday which has not helped.  So here we are, a new year a fresh start.

The past 2 weeks have been Back to Basics Boot Camp.  Graduation took place today and we are back in full force reading more books than you can imagine, writing resolutions, and building number sense.  I leave you today with this...


 Work work working away on our math skills and using the Promethean Board.  Happy Monday everyone.