Motivational Videos & Mr. Bill

Hope you are all having an amazing Thanksgiving Break! Before break we had a Thanksgiving Feast, and a special guest in our classroom- a Gator alumni, who currently works at another University, and most importantly a long-time friend of Mr. Ramirez & I. He read to our class with his nephew who is in Kindergarten and of course, enlisted a "Gator Chomp" in the classroom. We loved having him help us with our feast, run the kickball field, and read to us. Thank you, Mr. Bill! 

Before the feast, these little darlings wanted to use him, his nephew, and nieces as an audience for their student produced cover, and judging by the smiles on their faces, I am sure they were entertained!

Pink & Say & other bits

Pink & Say is a book that has been written and is all about an unlikely friendship that develops between two young boys, during the Civil War. This book is one of my favorite books of all time. We took stand-out quotes from the book and reflected, dissected, and evaluated on a chart. It was an amazing heartfelt lesson. 

I also got to have lunch dates with these wonderful students! 

Lastly, I'd like to congratulate our VFW award winner. He is kind, compassionate, and reflective which is everything that makes up a VFW student!

Harriet Tubman

Being that we are learning about the Civil War still, we focused on a famous former slave who made a difference to people all around the world, Harriet Tubman. It was really awesome to see the connections the students were making using their schema. 

Pink & Say Quotes

One of my favorite books, ever! I had the students study the "stand out" quotes from the book, and read and reflect with passion. They were supposed to read with intonation and expression!

Quotes from the story:

 

El Dia de Los Muertos

We learned about Dia de las Muertos, and made amazing "sugar skulls" to represent the cultural celebration. They turned out awesome. 

Halloween Experiments & Fall Festival

 

Well we had quite a week last week! We had a more than successful FALL FESTIVAL! We had an amazing turnout from the teachers, and volunteers. (My brother is pictured above, and he was one of the awesome volunteers, as was Mr. Ramirez!) It was great to see some of my students and their families there!

 We had a very special friend come and see us on Friday! It was awesome! He popped in, and put a big smile on all of our faces.

 The students had to reach into mystery bags for Halloween...it was pretty gross and hilarious to watch their reactions. They felt cold lo-mein noodles, sticky rice, bean sprouts, slimy gummy worms and string cheese! They had to use their senses and write educated guesses. Mr. Howard and his awesomeness volunteered to help with this experiment. We SO appreciated it!

 With much needed help, Mr. Howard also helped us make some ooey-gooey slime in honor of the spooky holiday.