Monday, January 12, 2009

Poems and Experiments!

We have had a full day of lessons in every subject today! B-Bop spent the morning writing and memorizing her poem for the upcoming Zoo-etry Festival!! They are supposed to either memorize one from a book or they can write their own and memorize it to recite at the festival! The theme is Zoo-etry so it needs to involve animals in one way or another. Part of our Language Arts curriculum involves public speaking skills...this has been a great way to incorporate that! Her poem turned out so cute...

Dog Food vs. Ice Cream
by B-Bop

Ice cream oh, ice cream
you are so sweet!
All flavors and toppings,
complete my favorite treat!

My furry dog Chewy,
this sweat treat he shall not eat.
Biscuits and dog bones and stinky dog food,
are the only things dogs can eat!
Eating toys and shoes and slippers so rude!
He needs to learn manners,
that crazy furry dude!

I'll stick with ice cream,
and he with his bones!
Together we'll dream,
of giant ice cream cones!


This afternoon we dove into our Language Arts lesson. B-Bop read a non-fiction article on how animals are suited for the environment in which they live. She learned how to compare and contrast . We learned about Camels in the Sahara desert and Polar Bears at the North Pole! To better demonstrate how they are suited for their environment we did this little experiment....

First we put a rubber glove on one of her hands and covered it in Crisco...
Then we filled two bowls with ice water and had her put her hands down into the water...
That hand on the right only spent a couple of seconds in the water!...
The one on the left was able to stay in for a couple of minutes!! The glove represented the Polar Bears skin and the Crisco was the bears layer of fat. She is really glad that she doesn't have to dive into the freezing cold ocean to get her food!


Friday, January 9, 2009

The holiday's got the best of us!!

We haven't posted to this blog lately but we sure have been busy! We are loving being back to a regular schedule this week! We look forward to putting more on here and hope everyone had a wonderful Holiday!

As I marked our attendance online today I noticed that we have hit 100 days of school, WOOHOO!!! That means that we are more than half way done with the school year...only 80 more days to go!

A couple of more spelling helps...

www.teachnet.com/lesson/langarts/spellingwds040299.html

http://www.sd5.k12.mt.us/elrod/multiage/Spelling.html

Thanks to my good friend Jenny who was so kind to share these with us!