Day 1: Name Collages to celebrate the children in our class (and I could check cutting and gluing skills).

Day 2: Self-Portaits

First Math Game with partners. These children demonstrated strong partner skills.

First collaborative piece is almost complete.

Our first collaborative piece is complete.

We were very serious scientists today while listening to I am a Booger, Treat Me with Respect as we kick off our Disease Prevention unit. I LOVE sharing this book with the children.

Working together on our norms for writers workshop. Student voices were heard first then I put their thoughts together. We agreed on this sentence to describe what it should look like during writers workshop. I think they hit the mark!

What students say it needs to look and sound like so authors in our room are successful. I promise they get talking time.

Yesterday, we got to observe the snake eat with our fourth grade buddies! 30+ children in the room and you could have heard a pin drop.

Check out a few science notebook journal entries about the corn snake. Their attention to detail is phenomenal and these are just a few.

This corn snake is getting a bit spoiled. Today, he ate tail side first which would likely not fair well for him if it were a live mouse. The second picture was taken by a student. “Mrs. Turner, do you want me to take the picture? I have a better view than you!”

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New cute earrings, made by a student. Definitely, put them on this morning.

SQOTD occurred during a Student Interest Questionnaire convo: I don’t know why, but my sister is obsessed with skincare routines.

Lots of evidence of living things at the RBE prairie today! The scientists were so observant.

We collaborated to create tableaux demonstrating the main idea of the information text, Exploring Grasslands.

Tree coverage in our yard is making it tricky, but it is still pretty stunning. Matt Beckwith

It’s always my favorite when our classroom meteorologist starts mimicking local meteorologists during our weather update in morning meeting. It’s always important to be weather aware and expose children to careers. Beth Finello

Check out the skills of these cartographers featuring their World Maps with landmarks (natural and human made) for each continent. It was a challenging task, but they all succeed in their own ways.