Scientists have IDEAS
Scientists ask QUESTIONS and propose HYPOTHESIS
Scientists EXPERIMENT
Monday, January 27, 2014
Science Week at Riverside
We get to wear our lab coats this week!! Bring on those science ideas and super questions. Anyone need help let me know. Students love my different "hats"!
Monday, January 13, 2014
Fishing with Mr. Staheli
Our class was recently featured on the Reading Rewards.com website!!
http://blog.reading-rewards.com/2014/01/fishing-with-the-principal-anyone/
http://blog.reading-rewards.com/2014/01/fishing-with-the-principal-anyone/
Wednesday, December 11, 2013
Making Nouns Plural
DAY 1
We had a brief discussion about the rules of plurals. We did write on the tables!! Don't tell the principal! We talked about our class and how we all learn differently. The students decided they wanted to teach the lesson using the way they learn! We will see what they come up with..
DAY 2: Student Lead Lessons
My students decided they wanted to teach the lesson and each choose the way they learn best. We have 4 different lessons taught by 4 different people!!:
TRADITIONAL LESSON- We were shown rules and given examples.
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VIDEOS AND SMART BOARD- We were lead in a video discussion on the SMART board.
GAMES- We played a game called "Bang". We read our spelling words for the week and told what rule it followed or needed to make it plural. If you get the word "Bang" you lose all your cards.
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MOTION- We played a game similiar to Hallaballoo..were you had to step on the plural rule that matched what was called out. Example if the word baby was called out...the rule you step on was "change Y to I and add ES"
DAY 3
We used a KWL chart and filled out what we know about plurals, what we wished we still knew. Then we watched the video about plural from brainpop and filled in our what we learned portions to see if we learned anything new.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9uYl1WJos
We had a brief discussion about the rules of plurals. We did write on the tables!! Don't tell the principal! We talked about our class and how we all learn differently. The students decided they wanted to teach the lesson using the way they learn! We will see what they come up with..
My students decided they wanted to teach the lesson and each choose the way they learn best. We have 4 different lessons taught by 4 different people!!:
TRADITIONAL LESSON- We were shown rules and given examples.
.JPG)
VIDEOS AND SMART BOARD- We were lead in a video discussion on the SMART board.
GAMES- We played a game called "Bang". We read our spelling words for the week and told what rule it followed or needed to make it plural. If you get the word "Bang" you lose all your cards.
.JPG)
MOTION- We played a game similiar to Hallaballoo..were you had to step on the plural rule that matched what was called out. Example if the word baby was called out...the rule you step on was "change Y to I and add ES"
We used a KWL chart and filled out what we know about plurals, what we wished we still knew. Then we watched the video about plural from brainpop and filled in our what we learned portions to see if we learned anything new.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xz9uYl1WJos
Tuesday, November 5, 2013
Why Do Elephants Have Trunks? Sentence Building
Our sentence building question for this week was:
Why do elephants have trunks?
Some favorites this week:
If they didn't have trunks they would not look like an elephant.
If they didn't have trunks they couldn't breath.
Elephants have trunks because the crocodile pulled it that way.
Elephants have trunks so they can paint.
Elephants have trunks so they can spray themselves with water.
- Review adjectives-how using describing words create better sentences for the reader
- Review synonyms
- Use the online dictionary to find synonyms
- Create a colorful list of words to add to our vocabulary
- Have fun while learning
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZxSPSWxwjI
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