Animal Research Progect

Click NATIONAL GEOGRAPHIC to research your animal!

Another website to try is this- NWF

Kid's Planet  

A-Z Animals- this website has a great search option

Animal Facts- this is great for fun facts

SHEDD Aquarium- this is great for ocean animals

Fun Animal Facts for Kids on science kids

Kid's Biology- here are some good fun facts!

Book Club Meetings

Nonfiction book clubs meet and use accountable talk to discuss their findings and what they learned about thier topic.

 

DonorsChoose Project= FUNDED

Leprechauns came to Room 20!

They left a big mess of glitter and coins everywhere!

March is Reading Month

We are celebrating MIRM with a friendship theme. The giraffe team also has mystery readers visit the classroom, check out a few of our guests and ask your child what books the read!

Book Clubs

Check out the A-Z mysteries book club synergizing and having fantastic conversations about their main character's sidekick!

Chocolate, Math, and LOVE

We are working on some fun math using hugs & kisses, Hershey's of course!
Today we tasted each type of candy and chose which one we liked the best. We made a graph and are comparing numbers, how many more kids like hugs than kisses?

Blogging Away!

We have been blogging like crazy in room 20! Writing, opinions, math, and reader's workshop thinking...

Check out our latest photos and have your child share their special blog with you!

Literacy Specials Lesson 12/16

LIT SPECIAL LESSON CLICK HERE 

Our lit special lesson is below, but please click the link above to see it better...the video below isn't working as well!!

 

Revision Writing Celebration

Here is a little trailer of our writing celebration today! Enjoy!

Book Clubs

Check out our book clubs- the new reader's workshop unit! We are discussing patterns that we noticed throughout the series and chatting about why those pieces might be important!

 

New Reader's Workshop Unit

Good Morning-

Our new RW unit is focused on Informational Reading. Today, our Giraffes organized our informational/nonfiction books into categories that they felt would work for our classroom library. This was a great way to launch our new unit!

Hometown Helping Hands Winner...from OUR TEAM!

One of our own from the Giraffe Team, Kari, won the Hometown Helping Hands prize this Monday Tuesday afternoon! Kari created a drawing to show how we can care for others and make donations to keep them warm during this cold, Michigan winter! Congratulations, Kari!

 

Happy Halloween!

Did we scare you with our creative costumes on Friday? Check out all of our great pictures on the shutterfly website under "classroom photos". I worked on making the website more easily accessible!

Here is a little preview!

Thinking Win-WIN!

We enjoyed a wonderful celebration assembly Monday morning. Two of our teachers, Mrs. Kenny & Mrs. Duplissis led our panthers in the pledge and helped us learn about Thinking Win-Win, "I win, you win, WE WIN!" They made some great connections and reminder about being bucket fillers not bucket dippers.

Ask your child about Think Win-Win and being a bucket filler... they have a lot of great knowledge to share!

 

Prowlin'

Hi Giraffes-

Check out our Panther Prowl photos [more under the classroom photos link].

We had a great time raising funds for our school! We also got to vote on funky things for Ms. Gade to wear [including a furry mustache!]

**Pictures from Matt Deyoung!

Enjoy!

Doughnuts Anyone?

 

No, we didn't actually eat doughnuts! We shared our strong endings doughnut style today so that we could easily rotate & get feedback/encouragement from lots of our peers!

 

Word Work Fun

Happy Wednesday Giraffe Friends-

We had a great time with our word work this morning...we got to practice with playdough! Our room smelled wonderful and we had lots of colorful fun!

Science ALIVE!

Boy, are we lucky! We had a great in-room assembly today called Science Alive. We got to meet, learn about, and touch 5 really cool animals! Ask your child about them! Here are a few photos, look for more to be added this weekend!

Happy Friday!

We ended our Friday with a great story from Grandpa Gundy! Enjoy your weekend!