Weather Word Cloud

The kids brainstormed as many words as they could to end our weather unit!!  Check it out...they remembered a lot...41 words!!  Wow :-)

Measurement is fun!!

The kids worked hard with their partner finding objects in the room to measure using nonstandard units of measurement (unifix cubes). They did such an awesome job respecting each other and taking turns - GREAT TEAMWORK!!

We Skyped today!!

We were very excited to Skype with Tammie Souza a meteorologist from the Fox Chicago Network.  A huge thank you to Tammie for taking the time to speak with us!!
(excuse the choppy moments - it happens with video conferencing sometimes)

Our video reponse to our Australian friends!!

We created a video to send back to our friends down under...Australia!  HA
The kids were very excited to tell the boys about themselves :-)

Weather Tools Song

Listen to the weather tools song and fill out the homework sheet that was sent home by Friday, December 9th.  Thanks and enjoy!

This song is off of the Weather CD, by Twin sisters Productions (Go out and buy it, it is GREAT)

Video Message From Australia

We were super excited to receive our first video message from Sydney, Australia.  A huge thank you to the boys and teachers for taking the time to include us in their lives.  Take a peek at part of the video our new friends sent!

Weather Word Cloud

Our class brainstormed a list of weather words.  We created a weather word cloud...take a look at all the words they know!!

Making Friends in Australia

I have recently been in contact with a class from Australia (you can see their message in the guestbook).  We will be creating classroom videos to send to each other in the next few weeks!  How exciting :-).  Here are a few pictures of the boys: a class photo, learning to surf, making pizza and at a fundraiser raising money for their sponsor family in Tanzania!  I can't wait to get their video.

More Landform Digital Stories

Round two of stories!  Great job guys. :-)

James & LaShawn

William & Thomas

Elijah & Mikey

Jake & Travis

Digital Storytelling About Landforms

The students just wrapped up a geography unit.  Part of that unit was learning about Earth's landforms.  They experimented with an app called StoryRobe to create digital stories about them.  They learned how to google search images, save the images to the iPad, insert them into their digital story and then record their voices.  The overwhelming response to this activity was positive!  What a great way to teach the kids how they can share their learning with the world!!  Boys and girls you rocked it!!  

We hope you enjoy them and learn a lot!

p.s. Remember this was our first time using this app, so there may be some mistakes :-)

Please feel free to leave a comment for the class!!!

Peyton and Izabelle

Makenzie, Starr & Ashley

       Abby & Lexie

Kaylie & Abigail

Shout Out!

I want to give a shout out to all of my students from last year - I miss you and wish you the best of luck in second grade. :-)
I would also like to thank all of the parents and volunteers again for making last year such a great success!  I cannot wait to start another year with a new group of wonderful students and parents.  I look forward to meeting all of you on August 23rd.