Mystery Reader!

Our mystery reader did an awesome job reading a nonfiction book on butterflies!

Our Monarch

Today we released our monarch butterfly!  It took off quickly and flew high into the air!

We have a Butterfly!!!

Sometime around 1am our butterfly emerged from its chrysalis!!!!

9:30 PM Getting Closer!

Butterfly Live Stream

Remember, we are streaming live!  We think the butterfly is very close to emerging!

Go Noodle!

SHEWWW!  Did we ever do a lot today!  These are pictures of us taking a very much needed Brain Break using Go Noodle!

Abe Lincoln Blabbers!

Parents,
To see your child's Abe Lincoln Blabber, look at the left of the blog, find your child's name under "Kidblog" and click.  Your child's blabber will be the first post you see!  Enjoy!

Mystery State Skype

Today we did a Mystery State Skype!  We asked yes/no questions and figured out that the 2nd graders we were talking to were from New Haven, Connecticut!!!  It was a great experience!

Day 14- Seeing Some Changes

Today we can see that our chrysalis is showing signs of change.  There are some lines on the outside that appear to be from the wings that are folded inside.

Indiana Posters

Today we worked in groups and made Indiana posters.  Tomorrow is our Mystery State Skype and we want to make sure we can answer questions about our own state!

US Bingo!

Today we played United States Bingo!  We are preparing for our Mystery State Skype on Friday!

Day 11...We're Still Watching!

It's Day 11 and he is still in his chrysalis.  We can't wait to see how beautiful he will be!

Mystery Reader!!

Today's mystery reader did a lovely job reading a butterfly book!

Day 8....We have a chrysalis!!!

I really hope that some of the students watched the live butterfly cam last night at home.  Parker and I watched at home and were able to see the caterpillar turn into the chrysalis.  I'm telling you that it was the COOLEST thing EVER!!!!  Keep watching (the link for the webcam is on this blog) as we wait for our butterfly to emerge!!!!

Our Caterpillar Friend!

He's in the shape of a J!

Day 5 Still Hungry!

Caterpillar Day 4

He is a hungry guy today!

Annie's Bossy 'r' - Prankster Cam (The Electric Company)

Bossy 'r' - Shock & Lin-Manuel Miranda (The Electric Company)

Veronica Jackson - "Bossy R" Music Video (The Electric Company)

Yes, your teacher is crazy over butterflies!

Kid President's Pep Talk to Teachers and Students!

Friday Mystery Reader!

Today's Mystery Reader read Arthur Goes to Camp!!!

Skyping and Caterpillars OH MY!

We had an EXCITING day today!  I *finally* found a monarch caterpillar on my milkweed at home.  Today we started slide presentation about the caterpillar.  We are going to add a slide daily to keep track of its progress and changes!

We also had a special guest reader today via Skype!  Mr. Clauss our district technology/test coordinator read a book to our class and gave us a tour of central office in Petersburg.

Complete Life Cycle of the Monarch Butterfly

Monarch butterfly emerging time lapse.

Total awesomeness!!!!

The Electric Company - Question Marks, Periods, Exclamations

Ne-Yo - "Transformer 'h'" Music Video (The Electric Company)

'th' - Music Man (The Electric Company)

Electric Company Shadowbox #1

Link to Digraph Song

The Digraph Song

A Day Made of Glass

View the video and answer... What part of the video is most intriguing and why?  After watching the video, how do you see this type of technology being integrated into schools and classrooms?

Mystery Reader!

This mystery reader read one of my favorites...Bed Head!  She did a great job!

Google Slide Shows

Friday we finished our Google slide shows!  Everyone did a great job.  I can tell that we learned lots of facts about deserts during the week. Some students took it a step further by using the Bundle that I created and researching on the net!  To see your child's presentation, click on the Kidblog link and find your child's post.  Enjoy!

Two New Projects

Saying that today was a busy day is an understatement!  We started 2 new projects.  The picture above is a quick pic that I snapped of one of our literacy stations today.  The students did their first podcasting today!!!  This is an excellent way for them to practice fluency.  You can see their reactions in the picture to hearing themselves. :) We will be working on this in stations the rest of the week and I will try to post them on the blog when we are finished.  Today we began learning about deserts.  Our story this week is A Walk in the Desert.  The students wrote down facts on post it notes and we began working on a Google slide presentation!  This was quite the chore to learn but give them 2 or 3 times of working in it and they will be pros.  We also blogged this morning, took AR tests, learned about inflectional endings (ask your child to tell you the rules for adding endings), read in our reading groups, practiced inflectional ending words, listened to A Walk in the Desert, played an interactive game called Fish em up! on inflectional endings, learned about declarative and interrogative statements, and practiced our spelling words by movement on a cool site called Go Noodle!

Desert Resources

Boys and girls...click on the link below to go to the bundle I made on deserts.  Use these as resources for your Google slide show assignment. 

http://bundlr.com/b/deserts

pic from citypictures.net