Planet Earth

We created our planet today. The students had previously cut blue and green squares during cutting practice this week. The first layer was blue, water.

The second layer was green, land.

And the final layer was cotton, clouds.

HOMECOMING WEEK

NEXT WEEK IS HOMECOMING WEEK!!!

WE WILL DRESS DIFFERENTLY EACH DAY:

MONDAY- TACKY DAY
TUESDAY- TYE-DYE DAY
WEDNESDAY- HAT DAY
THURSDAY- CAMOFLAGUE DAY
FRIDAY- SPIRIT COLORS (RED AND WHITE)
SATURDAY- HOMECOMING PARADE

what Planet do you live on?

Yesterday, we created our very own planets made from coffee filters. They even have moons!
First, we colored our coffee filters with markers.

Then I sprayed them with water and set them outside to dry.

Each student told me how many moons their planet had...

We also finished up our space web. We learned all about the solar system! This web consisted of what the students already knew about space. Smarties!

next week's lunch menu

Monday- chicken spaghetti, corn, fried squash
Tuesday- McRibs, tater babies, mexican corn
Wednesday- ham and turkey sandwich, chips, salad
Thursday- Pizza Hut
Friday- lo mein beef and noodles, veggie

Alien Invasion!

Even though only one teacher won, my neighbor teacher/princess/bff, we were all good sports and dressed up as aliens to celebrate our final day of the Scholastic Book Fair. Check us out!

We had two teachers that could not participate today :(. Can you tell I had a bit of fun doing my makeup??? :D

this week's newsletter

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Hero Day!

During Scholastic Book Fair week, we celebrate our grandparents with A "Grand" Event and our heroes with Hero Day. We have had heroes from the University of West Alabama sports all day today. They read books to us and played with us. We look up to and love our campus sports stars because there really is "something about this place!" Go Tigers!

UWA Women's Soccer Team reps

UWA Volleyball Team reps

UWA Softball Team, Cross Country Team, and Football Team reps

UWA Tennis and Softball Team reps

UWA Rodeo Team rep

Afternoon Shift's group pic

And last but certainly not least, our beloved Mr. Donta. :)

Animal House!

Kennadi and Hope were busy this morning in the block center building a house for all of the animals! :)

rain and rainbows

We learned all about rain and rainbows today!

Then we made Fruit Loop rainbows during art!

whoooo's a good looking kid?

Thanks to Lesson Plan SOS, we have a new mirror display! Check them out!

rotating classrooms

We tried something new today! Each month, we will have one day when we rotate classrooms. Each teacher will teach their lesson to each grade level in 30 minute increments. Today I had Ms. Brooke's 3's, Ms. Kaley's K-4, Ms. Kim's K-5, then my 3's. Ms. Kim and I taught weather and Ms. Kaley and Ms. Brooke taught space. I really enjoyed my morning with all the students and look forward to next month's rotation!

Here's a glimpse at what we did:

We learned that cumulus clouds are puffy on top and flat on the bottom, stratus clouds are blanket clouds, and cirrus clouds are feather clouds made of ice crystals.

After learning the different types of clouds, I read the 3's It Looked Like Spilt Milk. Then we made our own clouds.

The K-4 class made popcorn clouds after their lesson. Above is a cumulus cloud,

a stratus cloud,

And a cirrus cloud.

K-5's made a cloud journal.