Seeing that Valentine’s Day is coming up. The student made a box to see if it can hold conversations hearts without breaking. Many of them were able to do it. Their imagination was wonderful!

My students collaborated today with 2nd graders to create different animal habitats. Then my students placed animals in the correct habitats.

Students really enjoyed doing some math with jellybeans. Students each got a cup of jelly beach and they had to graph how many of each color they had. There sure were a lot of black jellybeans in the bunch!

After talking about the different types of soil. Students took magnifying glasses and looked at them and wrote down their observations!

While learning about rocks and minerals, my students work with HES Mrs. Brown’s class and dug for minerals. They used toothpicks and a chocolate chip cookie. The cookie represented Earth.

My students having fun during indoor recess with HES Mrs. Brown and her class to build with legos based off of different task cards they were given. The students enjoyed working together and collaborating with students from the other class.

Did a virtual field trip with my students today to Animal Kingdom. Reviewed landforms and animal habitats ahead of time and even learned about Walt Disney.

I will surely miss this group of students that I had this school year.

After reading the book The Recess Queen as our read aloud for Benchmark today. Students worked together to create their own parts of a playground. They collaborated together as a team and worked to create their project.

It's International Dot Day! Here is what we did. Students even made a house with a pool and living room!

Working in small group with students on blending words. We used pop it’s to pop out the sounds of words.

Students are learning about the lifecycle of a frog through our new benchmark ELA program. They enjoyed acting out the lifecycle of a frog today.

With learning about the life cycle of plants, students did a taste test on different types of apples. After tasting the apples, they graphed which apple they liked the best.

Halloween was fun today in my class. Students read Room on The Broom. Then they had to create a broom to fit all of their characters. Each group was given different supplies to work with. Students had to talk their idea out first before making. Play dough was a big success

After reading the story Abuelita’s Secret with our Benchmark program, my students learned to overcome their fears and think about what they enjoy. So my students brought in items from home that represent things that are their favorite. For example, pictures of family, toys, food.

After reading ‘How to Catch a Turkey’ we made Turkey traps. We collaborated with a kindergarten class to build the trap.

After learning that the groundhog did not see his shadow. We talked about light and shadows and created groundhogs and used flashlights to look at shadows.

While learning about 2D shapes and forming new shapes out of shapes, why not bring out the tangrams. Students made their own shapes while using the tangrams. Students made animals and flowers!