Kid Bloggin': Descriptives

Hey everyone! Last week we worked on describing words. As we studied different ways to use describing words I challenged students to create sentences about an object in our room. The challenge was, they couldn't just give a simple sentence. They had to show their progression of a detailed sentence. Behold their work!

It is a baskit.
It is a green baskit.
It is a big and green baskit.
It is a big and green colored baskit.

This is a pincle.
This is a long pincle
This is a long tall pincle.
This is a mosly yellow long tall pincle.

This is a elfent.
This is a stuft elfent.
This is a gray stuft elfent.
This is a cyowt(cute) gray stuft elfent.
This is a small cyowt gray stuft elfent.

This is a carpit.
This is a tall carpit.
This is a tall blue carpit.
This is a tall blue ruff carpit.

This is a glob.(globe)
This is a colored glob.
This is a dig(big) colored glob.
This is a dig colored glob with linds.(lines)

This is a scwrll.(squirell)
This is a grey scwrll.
This is small and grey scwrll.
This is a small grey and rawd(round) scwrll.

This is Miss Messick.
Miss Messick is pretty.
Miss Messick is pretty and big.
Miss Messick is pretty, big, and her skin is a little whiteish.

I made a backpack. The backpack is green. This is a big and green backpack. This is a big and hevey(heavy) green backpack.

It is a white clock.
It is a white clock that is heavy.
It is a clean, white, heavy clock.
It is a clock that is heavy, white, clean, dark clock.

This is a desc.
This is a yelluo desc
This is a yelluo and a little desc
This is a yelluo and a little and hord(hard) desc.

This is a light.
This is a big light
This is a big bright light.
This is a big bright white light.

This is a bacbac. (backpack)
This is a light bla (blue) bacbac
This is a light blu bacbac.
This is a big light blue bacbac.

This is Miss Messick
This is Miss Messick she is pretty
This is Miss Messick she is wowig(wearing) a white
This is Miss Messick she has black hair.

Kid Bloggin' Friday

Hey everyone! I hope you are as excited about this nice weather as we are! I also hope you are in a place that is getting a break in the cold where you get to enjoy this nice weather. Today the kids are taking over the blog!

Writing is when we write. We need to write nice. We get paper to write on. We write friendly letters in writing. We do writing at 2:40.

Sometimes we eat pizza pot pie. You tack a pot pie. we make pizza. We git to pick our food sometimes. we like pizza pot pie

We have desidid to do dirt. At dirt we all read. We swich out are books an Wensday. We get new books. We do it evary day. We love dirt. We do dirt on the and uf the day.

The things we do for indoor rececess are games. We play any game we want. We play Race To The Tresure. Another game is Ants In The Pants. We play with blocks. We do indoor reccess when we can't go out side. One of the games is Hoot Owl Hoot.

Hey all! Today I am presenting at the Little Apple Tech Fest put on our school district. For my presentation I explained some blogger basics as well as blogging tips. I then tasked my session participants with creating this post in groups, partners, or individually. They had to post about something they've learned, something they are looking forward to, or some piece of tech to share.. Here goes!

We learned how to start our own classroom blogs.  It is important to watermark pics to link back to your blog and also to go get parent permission to post.  We are excited to start teaching our students how to become bloggers!

Hi Friends!
Blogging as a classroom community connection is AMAZING!!  Kids + Teacher = Parental Involvement!  :)

Interested Educators! Little Apple Tech Fest is a great way for educators to engage in learning. Ms. Messick is successful at sharing the blogging process with educators!!  Lets Go Blog!! 

Today we've learned a lot so far! We learned the basics of how to make a blog. We need to come up with a creative title and then just learn as we go...

Today we learned about Blogging. The first step is to decide your purpose. Step number two, get parent permission. The third step is to figure out how to get students involved. Can't wait to create my own and get parents and students alike excited about my class!!

The great thing about blogging is it allows for flexibility. It gives both individuals and groups a voice and allows everyone to be part of the action. Remember to make it interesting, fun, and label as you go along.

Hear Ye! Hear Ye! We have wonderful & exciting news. Today we were introduced to a fun site called Blogger. This site will help bring students together to work on their social skills through blogging & photographs. We look forward to blogging with our students. Check on us when you can!

How great did they do?!?!?! I am so glad to see so many educators interested in blogging. I can't wait to follow the blogs they will create!
 

Kid Bloggin' Wednesday: A Fast Post

Hi all! Today we took a vote on activities to finish our day. Some of our class is doing DIRT (where we read to ourselves) and some of us are working on the blog!

We decided to write about Jeopardy! Jeopardy is where we have different options to do stuff. Jeopardy is fun. Jeopardy is where we do math, reading, and writing, and shapes, and class activities. One of the options are class and we some times have to group up and do partners on it.

We finished Jeopardy today! That means we got to our Final Jeopardy. Because it is the end of the day, we have to do it on Tuesday. Our final Jeopardy asks us to talk to other teachers about our Jeopardy game. We have to get them to come to our classroom and say pineapple. We are so excited to do this on Tuesday.

We hope you have a good Valentine's Day!

Kid Bloggin' With Our Groups

Hey all! I hope you all are doing fabulous! Today was a beautiful day here and we were able to get outside for our recesses and enjoy some good ole sunshine! I don't think I complained about the cold once today ;)

To switch things up a little bit for our kid bloggin' session today, I had the students work in groups. This was the first time we've really amped up our groupwork. Table groups were tasked with agreeing on one topic to write about that they thought you all would be interested in. They then had to produce at least 5 sentences together. Afterwards they had to agree on who would take the picture and of what. There was a little frustration and hesitation at first but then they dove straight in. I thoroughly enjoyed watching them work and problem solve together. So, without further ramblings from me, here are their creations!

Green Group
We like math centers. We like computer it's fun We like hexigon center because ipads. We like oval center because we make puzzles. We like rectangle because we make towers.

Yellow Group
Our table likes p.e. we enjoy P-E- because we like to play. We play with balls in P.E. We play with jump ropes. We also play tag too! We also run to the lins. P.E. is fun.

Pink Group
We color in a minute on the clock for calender. We add a tree to the calender. We add a staw to a cup on calender. we add a penny to calender. We add a dot to a tens frame. Other people should know about it because we want them to know what we do in the morning after jornal.

Glue Group
We get to yos defrent tips of pant. We get too mec piurs. we get scetls. We gat too pat. We get to do dojo ponts. (We get to use different types of paint. We get to make pictures. We get Skittles. We get to paint. We get to do dojo points.)

Here's to #happyclassrooms and more group blogging days ahead!

Our In-School Snow Day

If your area is anything like ours then you've had a few encounters with snow already. I'm going to be completely honest, I am over the snow and winter already. Now, I realize we still have a good amount of winter left. I'm not crazy. I understand that. However, I would be completely happy with the cold weather if we could hold off on any more snow. We all know what happens when it snows....
- playgrounds get covered up
- we have inside recess for days (maybe even weeks)
- we may get a snow day
-we may not get a snow day....when we totally should have

The last scenario was our reality last week. The weather wasn't great but we still had school. I'll admit that it could have been much worse but the conditions weren't the best for continuing to require school to be in session. So what do you do when you should be having a snow day but are stuck in school? Well, you have an in-school snow day of course!

Since we couldn't be out in the snow all day we brought it in and made the whole day focused around snow! We started the day doing a little persuasive writing during our journal time.

Then we did a little expository writing. To connect with our previous unit on sequence we wrote the directions to making a snowman. Students were challenged with giving detailed directions to correctly sequence the building of a snowman. We then tried to follow these directions to see if they would result in a snowman.

We learned that when giving directions we need to be very specific. So we tried again as a class and found success!

During reading we worked through a ton of books that were snow related.

Then we had science. Student groups were tasked with forming a plan to melt a cup of snow. Their goal was to find the fastest method. Groups each came up with a different plan of attack.

After plans were made groups were given their cup of snow and began. It got intense extremely quickly!

Afterwards groups went around and observed how other tables' methods how worked. We then discussed what worked best and why.

When it came to math, we kept with the snow theme and had a snow ball fight! Now, don't worry. This was an indoor fight and no I didn't bring snow in for this. I don't think that would go over well with a lot of people. So I took an idea from a wonderful colleague Ashley Smith and we used paper to write our math facts. We then tossed our snow balls around. Students then found a snow ball, solved the equation and wrote their answer down. They then crumbled their snowball and threw it again. We will definitely be having more inside snowball fights!

So while I'm not a huge fan of school days when I consider the weather to warrant a snow day....I can say that we will be prepared if another one rolls around!

:)