Hmmm. It is a little warm in central Texas, but today is Snow Day in Mrs. O's room. Let the celebration begin!
LA is our Superstar Student of the week. He did a great job presenting his poster. Please come by and see it!
Next, we had our January Reading Celebration. And did we have something to celebrate: we read for a total of 23,899 minutes (which is 398 hours or 17 days). This is our all-time record in monthly reading totals. No wonder our Reading scores are soaring.CD was our top reader this month. He read for over 3,000 minutes!
ER, IP and EM all read for over 2,000 minutes!
EKM, OC, BK, EJ and JA all read for over 1,000 minutes! We all got to choose a prize and Mrs. O gave us all a copy of the newest Flat Stanley book.
ER, IP and EM all read for over 2,000 minutes!
EKM, OC, BK, EJ and JA all read for over 1,000 minutes! We all got to choose a prize and Mrs. O gave us all a copy of the newest Flat Stanley book.Way to read, Bumblebees!
We read two books about Snow Days. One was written in poetic free form. The lines did not rhyme and the sentences were not complete, but the poem made us understand how Snow Days felt, smelled, tasted, sounded and looked. We sat dawn to write a similar poem in 12 minutes.
We loved the freedom of this type of poem and produced some amazing poetry for our Poetry Slam. We can express a Snow Day in a very poetic form!
We answered questions about the month of January and we completed a Frosty Word Search.
We cut snowflakes, making sure that they had six sides and were symmetrical. (And no two were alike!) We wrote a "How To"on creating snowflakes.
We played "Roll-a-Snowman". Each number earned a different part of a snowman.
We read two books about Snow Days. One was written in poetic free form. The lines did not rhyme and the sentences were not complete, but the poem made us understand how Snow Days felt, smelled, tasted, sounded and looked. We sat dawn to write a similar poem in 12 minutes.
We loved the freedom of this type of poem and produced some amazing poetry for our Poetry Slam. We can express a Snow Day in a very poetic form!
We answered questions about the month of January and we completed a Frosty Word Search.
We cut snowflakes, making sure that they had six sides and were symmetrical. (And no two were alike!) We wrote a "How To"on creating snowflakes.
We played "Roll-a-Snowman". Each number earned a different part of a snowman.We told Snowman jokes, sand Snow songs and made Snow rhymes.
Then we "bundled up" for recess. It was a chilly 80 degrees.
We returned to watch an old-school VHS on Raymond Briggs' "The Snowman". It shows a cartoon adventure of a boy and his snowman, but there is no talking. We had to make up the story in our heads.
I think we really enjoyed it...
Mrs. O treated us to hot chocolate and marshmallows while we colored snow-themed book marks. (We had a big malfunction with our commercial coffee/hot chocolate maker. May it rest in peace.)
We returned to watch an old-school VHS on Raymond Briggs' "The Snowman". It shows a cartoon adventure of a boy and his snowman, but there is no talking. We had to make up the story in our heads.
I think we really enjoyed it...
Mrs. O treated us to hot chocolate and marshmallows while we colored snow-themed book marks. (We had a big malfunction with our commercial coffee/hot chocolate maker. May it rest in peace.)We got to sing about our favorite Snowman: Frosty! We watched a short video about him, too. We tweeted about our day on twitter @obumblebee.
We had a wonderful Snow Day...Texas style.
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