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!