Class Elections

To teach the class about the voting process, we had a class election. We began by voting in a primary election. The kids nominated someone they felt would be a good candidate for our Class President. I made the rule that they could NOT vote for themselves! After the votes were counted, I announced the 4 candidates for Class President: Cody, Lauren, Luke, and Abby.

The next step was for the class to pick a candidate and help campaign. They created posters that we hung around the room. We talked about how it's important to try to come up with a catchy slogan!

Our candidates had the weekend to write their speeches to present to the class. They put a lot of thought into what they wanted to say. They were truthful, caring, and well written! Unfortunately, Abby was sick the day we gave speeches so they did not get to present on voting day.

Luke  

His speech

Cody

His Speech

Cody also made cupcakes for the class.

Lauren

Her Speech

After listening to each speech, the rest of the class had their chance to vote! It was a hard choice, but the winner is....

I was extremely impressed with each candidate's speech. I feel certain each candidate would have made an excellent Class President! Lauren is doing such a fantasic job fufilling her presidential duties! :)

Nonfiction Posters

To wrap up our nonfiction unit, each student got to pick another topic to research. For this project, we really worked on main idea and creating headings to go along with our topics. We spent a week researching and organizing our information. The kids worked really hard to display their information on these wonderful posters! The kids got a chance to share their posters with a few friends in the class. They were so excited to share all their interesting facts! We're going to hang on them a little longer at school and share them with our reading buddies! After that, we'll send them home so they can share them with YOU!

February Birthdays

It's that time again.. our birthday celebration!! Last week we celebrated our February birthdays! I hope Maraina, Aaron, Angus, and Baylee all enjoyed their special days!

I made them take another picture standing closer together..

Valentine's Day

Wow! We had a fantastic Valentine's Day. The kids' excitement began first thing this morning as the boxes, candy, and cards flooded in! We spent the morning taking turns delivering our cards.

We spent the rest of the morning and afternoon working hard to finish all the things we HAD to do -- like Reading, Math, and all those other fun subjects! Luckily we were able to finish almost everything so we could enjoy some Valentine's Day Fun!

We had our own Minute to Win It challenges! We had a BLAST!! 2 of the first challenges were Candy Heart Stacking and Candy Heart Chopsticks. For Candy Heart Stacking, you had to try to stack as many hearts as you could within the minute. If the tower fell, you had to start again. For Candy Heart Chopsticks, the kids used the pencils as chopsticks. They tried to pick up and move as many candy hearts as possible from the plate.

You are probably wondering why those hearts are on so many of these cute faces! We had a medical emergency today... apparently there is a disease going around called Love Pox. It's spread by giving hugs! After each hug you give someone, a heart magically appears on their face!!

Next challenge... Cookie Drop! This one I'm sure you've seen on the show before. Oreos start on the forehead. The challenge is to get the Oreo to drop into your mouth without using your hands. It was hilarious watching them. Some claimed they couldn't do it because cookie crumbs got in their eyes...

Finally, we got to enjoy some delicious cupcakes from Mrs. Fisher. Afterwards, the kids had a chance to look through all their cards and candy! I would say it was a pretty successful day!



More Nonfiction Books

Gabe

Hannah

Julien

 

Luke

Maraina

Reagan

Xander

Research Project

A few weeks ago we began a new Reading Unit on Nonfiction. We spent time learning about the differences between reading fiction and nonfiction, including some of the different text features. This week, we finally put that knowledge to use! The kids were able to choose their top 3 research choices and I did my best to assign each child their top choice. They worked in small groups to research their topic. Over the course of the week, they were able to gather so much information about their topics! They certainly became experts!!

We wanted a cool way to show off all our hard work so we created our own nonfiction books. Mrs. Nall showed us how to make a book by using a paper bag and all we had to do was fill in our information! I was able to record several students reading their books below. I'm hoping to get everyone finished by next week. Enjoy!

Baylee

Lauren

Angus

Aidan

Dimitri

Katie Beth

Cody

Hunter

Johanna