What if?

Students learned about animal adaptations that help us survive.  To start out the lesson, Ethan volunteered to get rid of his thumbs, and try some simple task.   We later learned about different animals that have adaptations that help them survive.  Ask your student about the camel's eyelashes... 

Give thet brain a BREAK!

Have your students talked about taking a brain break?  Everyday in the middle of our morning, we take a 3 minute break to get wiggles and jiggles out.  This is a great transition from writing to reading and helps us get ready to focus for the 2nd half of our morning.  I thought you would like to see the kids do one of their favorite breaks!  So what does the Fox say?

Don't just GOOGLE it!

This week we learned how to use a dictionary. Yes, many kids said "just google it". Even my own 25 year old at dinner argued the last time he looked up a word was 2nd grade (the word weather). We talked about why is it important to know how to use a dictionary. Caden said "because you can get eye strain from technology". Eliana said, "if the power goes out and you need to know about a word". I wanted students to use their ABC order and understand how to look up information (a little grit is involved to stay persistent).  

If your at school, check out our bulletin board with the new words we learned!

Texas A to Z 2014!

The kids did a great job bringing Texas to Life from A to Z!  I wanted to share the video from the performance.  The YouTube link is a private link.  Enjoy!

http://youtu.be/uWo77vV7to8

Recycling is for the Birds!

Please take a second to watch Joe, Caden, and Raymond's commercial.  I had to upload it to YouTube on a private viewing ability.  It was too large to load through the blog.  I hope you love it as much as we do!

http://youtu.be/hSq8ulc2amE

It's Super Recycle to the Rescue!

It's all in the can!

Hanno, Katherine, Bennett and Sarina did a great job on their commercial!  They researched, wrote, created and directed the entire thing!