Winter Olympics unit

To start off the Olympics unit we talked about the Olympic rings and created our own Olympic rings using paper cups and paint.

 

In the writing center each student picked what sport they would do in the Olympics. I attached those writing pieces to their Olympic rings paper.

For homework I sent home a worksheet that they had a to fill out about  what sport they would do in the Olympics, how they would celebrate their win, and what they would look like in the Olympics. 

Below is a picture of what I sent home for homework.

 

 

To help us with our reading workshop and continue to work on reading independently every day, we started the reading Olympics in our class. I set a time in class for 10 minutes every day to read independently and at the end of the 10 minutes we mark it down on our Olympics chart shown below.

 

At the end of our reading Olympics everybody will receive a gold medal!

So remember...

Word review

This is one way I review our new words of the week. The students have to fill in the words according to where they would fit in the blocks.

Elmer's Day Parade

To review the letter E I read the book Elmer. We then made our own Elmer's Day Parade. Each student made a patchwork elephant by cutting up pieces of construction paper and gluing them on an elephant template.  

Past tense verbs

To review verbs in the past tense, I made this T chart. I put the present verbs and the students filled in the past.

Homework copybook

For our homework copybook in the front cover I put a list of our sight words and a handwriting example paper. I gave the suggestion to my students that they should highlight the words they know when they study them.

Until we are done learning about every letter, their homework consists of drawing a picture for that letter and practice writing that letter

Magnet letter match

I started with the colored letter magnets on the board already. I gave each student an uppercase and lowercase letter and they put them under the matching letter. After all of the letters were matched I gave the students a picture. They had to put the picture under the letter it starts with.

Also with the magnets, I put the letters on the board out of order and the kids rearranged the letters into the correct order.  I also did fill in the missing letter.