Podcasts of Biographies: Day 2

Here are 3 more podcasts that were recorded today. Our writers today even wanted to try adding background music! I hope to have all finished/recorded/uploaded by tomorrow!  Enjoy :)

Biography of Colton: By Joe

Biography of Joe: By Colton

Biography of Destiny: By Jasmine

Dear families,

This week we learned about Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and what an important leader he was to children and adults alike. We described what we thought Martin Luther King Jr.'s dream meant to us and compared his dreams for the United States of America with our dreams for ourselves as we grow up. We then wrote down our 'dream words' that we hoped to experience, feel or be a part of for the rest of our lives. Finally, we worked with an iPad app called "Skitch" (free download for any with iPads/iPods/iPhones at home) where you can take a graphic and describe it with text - kind of a visual graphic organizer surrounding ourselves. After teaching the class how to use the app, for the most part, they were able to manipulate the tools and text boxes themselves.  Mrs. Rottschafer was also a wonderful help in guiding us through this 1:1 process. It was inspiring to see how quickly their brains can understand and apply sequential steps with technology.

Enjoy our "Dream Words"  

Eva

Kinsey

Meeka

Brylee

Natalie

Luke

Destiny

Riley 

Reese

Shelby

Keyland

Jasmine

Mason

Ethan

Casey

Joe

Christian

Colton

Martin

Christy 

Haylee

Nick

Sam

Deaglan

Zack

Word Endings Day 2

To continue our learning about word endings, today we learned that when something happens in the past, we add -ed to the end. So we met granny and gramps -ed. After adding -ed to our words on our word endings chart, we created our own granny and gramps -ed to take home and use as a poster to remind ourselves of word endings. We are also learning that -ed can say "ed," "d," or "t," depending on the word.

Tomorrow we will do a word hunt around the room for words with these endings and we will add a few games to our word work choice during Daily 3 by the end of this week or next week.

Learning Word Endings

 This week we are learning about -ing and -ed word endings.

We are learning that when you add -ing to the end of the word, it is happening now. Tomorrow we will learn that when you add -Ed to the end of the word, it happened in the past...Of course there are exceptions to these rules but we don't go there :) I just explain that we will learn all different types of rules and exceptions in our language throughout our learning years.
We first generated a list of verbs. We then had somebody model it happening now. Next, we said the sentence, such as, "Hannah is dancing." Then, we added the new -ing word to the next column in our chart.





Finally, we had to meet the -ing kids. These kids are happening now!

The children then were able to create their own -ing kids they could hang up as a poster at home to remind them that -ing means "it is happening now!"

Stay tuned for more on our word study this week!