Who Built the Tallest Tower?

We opened our final envelope from the 100th day of school! It was a design challenge to build a structure using 100 toothpicks and 100 marshmallows. The tallest structure was 8 inches! 

Reading to Punctuation

We have been focusing on fluency while reading. Today we practiced reading dialogue in a character's voice. Piggie and Gerald, the Pigeon, and Frog and Toad books are excellent for practicing our character voices!

100 Day Fun!

All day we chose from the mystery envelopes for 100's day activities!

The first envelope revealed a domino game!

The kids had to make a domino train that had exactly 100 dots. They had to show their equations to prove their math was correct! 

The second envelope was a Rolling  to 100. Using dice they were to estimate how many rolls would reach 100. Again, they added and showed their evidence!

The third envelope was a poem with fill in the blanks! 

The fourth envelope was a money game! Rolling the dice, collecting coins, exchanging, and the first to reach 100 or a dollar! 

Our fifth envelope was to graph 100 skittles!

I must have missed a picture of the skittle activity!

The next envelope was 100 exercises! 

We ran out of time for the final mystery envelope...stay tuned tomorrow!!!

R-controlled Vowels

Happy birthday Emma!

Fluency and Phrasing

Last week we talked about fluency and the 4 components: phrasing, expression, rate, and punctuation. This week we will be focusing on our phrasing. The keys to improving fluency are keeping your voice on the whole time and moving your eyes ahead to look at the next word before your mouth is reading it! 

Suffixes

We added to our base of suffixes this week, focusing on -ly, -ty, and -y. Remember to double the consonant if needed for -y. Ask your child why there is no need to double consonants for -ly and -ty. 

Design Challenge with a Paper Bag!

We read Baghead, about a boy who has an idea using a paper brown bag! 

We then completed a design challenge using brown paper bags! 

Empathy: what problems do you have?

Define: which problem do you want to solve and how will you solve it? 

Ideate: draw 4 solutions

Feedback: share and get ideas

Iterate: design one final solution 

Prototype: build your solution using only a brown paper bag, markers, fur, and scissors.