The Biggest Valentine Ever

This week and a very exciting week. We celebrated our 100th day of school, and it is Valentines day this Friday. To honor Valentines day I found another one of Steve Kroll's great books, The Biggest Valentine Ever. We discussed the sequence of the book, and then studied the two main characters. This was completed in a Venn Diagram. At the end of the book the two characters make a huge Valentine and it looked like a mouse. We made a similar craft. 

Moon

This wee in ELA we are focusing on procedural text. To wrap up our activities with the moon we made a moon. I simply frosted some sugar cookies, and the students added some delicious chocolate chips to create the craters. 

Thinking Maps

We love using thinking maps in class. Here are a few we completed this week alone. The kids love getting together and completing them as a class. 

circle map

Venn Diagram 

Flow Map

This is our thinking map about the months and seasons. I found this great book from scholastic and used it as the balance to our lesson.