Animal Reports

Just a reminder, you are invited to come in and see the children present.  They will be in the computer lab presenting Wednesday morning from 9-10, and again in our classroom on Thursday afternoon from 1-2:30, and 3-3:30. This is an open format of everyone presenting at their computer all at the same time so you can come and go as you please.

Due to all the hard work by students on their animal reports, we will not be doing homework this week.  I hope that if you have a trip planned this gives you some extra time to pack and prepare:)

Also remember we have no school this Friday and we resume Monday April 11th @ 10:30 because it is a late start.  Have a wonderful evening!

Animal Reports

We are almost done with our animal reports.  The at home assignment is due Monday.

If your child misplaced the information, see below.  Also you are invited to come in and see the children present.  They will be in the computer lab presenting Wednesday morning from 9-10, and again in our classroom on Thursday afternoon from 1-2:30, and 3-3:30.  I'll try to take pictures while they present and put them on the blog so you can enjoy it that way if you can't make it in.  Have a wonderful Easter!

Name: _____________________________                              Michigan Animal: ________________

Due Date: Tuesday,  March 28,  2016

Directions: Complete one of the projects below.  Put a check mark by the project you have   completed.  The project will be done at home.  They will be graded on accurate information, personal best, correct spelling, capitalization, punctuation, creativity and quality.  Good luck!

_________ 1.  Design and make a puppet of your animal.  This could be made of paper mache, sock, clay, paper, fabric, etc. 

_________ 2.  Design a crossword puzzle or word search with at least 10 questions and answers telling interesting facts about your animal or 10 words if it’s a word search.  Make your crossword on graph paper or paper like it.  Be sure to supply an answer key.

_________ 3.  Make a dictionary booklet using at least ten vocabulary terms related to your animal and its behavior.  Your dictionary must be in “dictionary” format (ABC order, bold words, etc.), include at least 10 terms/definitions and some illustrations.

_________ 4.  Write a poem, fable or story about your animal.  Include at least 5 interesting facts about your animal. The poem must be at least 10 lines long.  The fable or story needs to have a beginning, middle and end and be at least 1 page long without skipping lines.  Include an illustration.

_________ 5.  Make prints of your animal’s tracks.  Compare your animal’s tracks with 2 other Michigan animals.  Use vegetable prints, clay, plaster, Styrofoam, etc. 

_________ 6.  Create a diorama showing the habitat of your animal.  Use a shoe box and real or fake materials to create your habitat.

Storm Therapy Dog

We were fortunate enough to have Mrs. Cruttenden bring her amazing therapy dog Storm to our class today.  She brings him to our school for the Kids Hope program and Storm helps many others in our community.  The children were so impressed with how helpful Storm is and we really appreciate Mrs. Cruttenden, Mrs. Adgate, and Mrs. Shantz for making it such a fun experience!

 

 

Back into the swing of things

I loved meeting with everyone last week for conferences.  It's so exciting to share all of the growth that the children have made and continue to make this year.  To hopefully help with more accountability for reading at home, I have created a more detailed homework sheet.  I have it pasted on the side under homework, I also have a link below that you can get the homework from and I also sent home a hard copy with the students today.  I hope this helps and I would love to hear your feedback on how it works for your child.  I hope you all have a fabulous week, enjoy the sunshine and warmer weather:)

https://docs.google.com/document/d/1JG0t9162XrbdUaUUpm9Sj9GhuA0wULasvOggVMy2bT4/edit?usp=sharing