Now we also have a Tiny Topic Notebook for our blog. When we get ideas to blog about, we list them in the Tiny Topic Notebook. The blogger gets to choose which one we blog about. We had a problem. We were spending so much time thinking what to blog about, that we ran out of time to write it! That's why we don't have very many posted. Then, Cate saw Mrs. Freeman's Tiny Topic Notebook, and the idea just hit her! Thanks, Cate! Great idea!!
We have Tiny Topic Notebooks in our classroom. Do you know what that is? Well, have you ever had a great idea for a story but you forgot it? A Tiny Topic Notebook can make sure that never happens! It is a tiny notebook that you keep at your table. You put the great story idea in your Tiny Topic Notebook so you won't forget it. Then, when you are ready to write your story, you just find the idea you want in your notebook.
Now we also have a Tiny Topic Notebook for our blog. When we get ideas to blog about, we list them in the Tiny Topic Notebook. The blogger gets to choose which one we blog about. We had a problem. We were spending so much time thinking what to blog about, that we ran out of time to write it! That's why we don't have very many posted. Then, Cate saw Mrs. Freeman's Tiny Topic Notebook, and the idea just hit her! Thanks, Cate! Great idea!! Hi! My name is Cate. I am eight years old. I play soccer, I swim in the summer on the swim team, and I do tennis. Those are all the sports that I do. I LOVE reading! I have a reading bookmark timer, and once I put it to 1 hour and 30 minutes! But I never finished. Maybe I'll try it in the future. I also love to draw. I have a drawing suitcase I take everywhere. Well, not to school, because you can't take that to school! I like science, but since we're studying bugs, I usually have someone pick it up for me. I feel kind of grossed out, because I'm not used to seeing bugs up close. Except for Manny, but he passed away. I do not like peas, but I'm really good at making cocoa cubes! I even gave some to Mrs. Freeman. Goodbye!
How do you get smarter about the world? Well, we know. Read, read, read! But not just any kind of reading. You have to read nonfiction! We started a new unit in Reading Workshop. It is Nonfiction. We learned to use a teaching voice when we read nonfiction because we can't use character voices - there are no characters! We started a new concept map about what we're learning. So far it's been mostly about how information in the books is organized. Here are some of the nonfiction bins we have in the classroom library right now: sea mammals, weather, land mammals, big cats, bodies, sea creatures, space, bats, sharks, birds, reptiles, pets, and the Arctic. Those are a lot of books! Wow!
Are you ready to hear more about the bugs we are studying in science? Well, last time we wrote about meeting the mealworms, but we didn't know much about them. Now we've learned that mealworms turn into beetles! We did a Zoom-In with a life cycle diagram. First, we saw the egg, and we had to guess what it was. Next, we saw a larva, which was a mealworm. We didn't know it was called a larva yet. Next, we saw a bigger mealworm, which still was a larva. Next we saw a pupa. Some of our classmates thought it was a dragonfly, because it looked like there were wings on it. We were on the last stage. A lot of people thought it would turn into just a bigger mealworm, but, surprise! It turned into a crawly beetle. Then we got to look at the real ones again. And now we know all about their life cycle.
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AuthorThis blog is maintained as a collaboration between all students and myself. Each week, one student has the classroom job of "Blogger". That student helps decide subjects for our posts, as well as writing one blog post about him/herself. Archives
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