Food Guide Pyramid!

Last week, we began a new unit in Health (Nutrition and Dental Health). We learned about foods that were healthy and gave us good energy. We also created our own Food Guide Pyramids. It was lots of fun and all of our students worked so well in their groups!

Tony, Lucy, and Eliana worked together!

La'Shawn, Mrs. Higdon, Enoch, and Joyria worked together!

DeAsia, Jameer, Mrs. Stowe, and Santoes worked together!

Each group with their final products!

Learning about Thomas Edison!

On Thursday, we learned about Thomas Edison and his contributions to American life. We researched him on the internet and learned that Thomas Edison invented the light bulb!

Mrs. Higdon had a special surprise for us! She taught us how to create a closed circuit using a battery, aluminum foil, and a penny. Then, we were able to light the light bulb using these items! It was a very cool experiment and the students really enjoyed it!

Thanks Mrs. Higdon for sharing this experiment with us!

Super Readers!

Every week, three more words are added to our word wall. Every day, we give the students an opportunity to "Show what they know" by reading from the word wall!
I am so proud of all of my precious students! Each and every one of them have made progress in their ability to read these words! Some of them have bypassed high-frequency word list 1 and have learned every word on the wall!

Below are a few pictures of some of them in action! :-)

Way to go!! Keep up the good work! Your teachers are so proud of you!

Read Across America Day and Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

March 2nd was "Read Across America" day! On this day, we celebrated Dr. Seuss' birthday.

DeAsia was the "Class STARfish" last week. So, we decorated her picture for the occasion! :-)

In celebration of Dr. Seuss' birthday, we had cupcakes! Yum! Yum!

We also dressed in Dr. Seuss "attire"! Ha! Ha!

After reading "The Cat in the Hat", Ms. Malcom had a very special presentation! Ms. Malcom awarded the "Top Reader". Tony has made tremendous progress in his reading skills this year! Way to go TONY!!!! We are sooooooo proud of you!

We loved learning about Dr. Seuss! He was a wonderful author and wrote many beautiful books! We have many of his books in our class collection and read several on "Read Across America" day! Each student was also given the opportunity to choose their favorite Dr. Seuss book and take it home to read with their family! They were quite excited to do this!

Happy Birthday Dr. Seuss!

Learning about George Washington Carver (Part 2)!

After learning about George Washington Carver and his contributions to American life as well as planting peanuts with Mr. John, Ms. Cassandra (Ms. Malcom's friend) had another special activity for us! One of George Washington Carver's contributions was peanut butter! So... we decided to make our own peanut butter!

First, we put peanuts in a blender!

We added some peanut oil!

We fired up the blender!

Then, we added our peanut butter to some yummy crackers! Tony didn't know what to think about the peanut butter that he made!

Santoes and Joyria couldn't wait to try it!

La'Shawn loved it!

Thanks Ms. Cassandra for stopping by and sharing this activity with us! George Washington Carver would be so proud! :-)

Learning about George Washington Carver (Part 1)!

The Friday before last, we studied George Washington Carver and his contributions to American life! We learned that George Washington Carver was a great plant scientist. He used plants, such as peanuts, sweet potatoes, and soybeans to make several products.

Mr. John (Mrs. Stowe's husband) came by and brought all the materials needed to plant peanuts! We were not sure if they would grow but we decided to give it a shot!

First, everyone got two planters!

Silly girls!

Ms. Cassandra (Ms. Malcom's friend) also stopped by to help! Her and DeAsia became great friends!

Everyone got soil in their planters!

Then, everyone got a few peanuts to place in their soil!

When finished, we put all of our planters in a small "greenhouse" that Mr. John brought for us!

Tony was the "Class STARfish". So, he got to be Mr. John's special helper!

DeAsia talking to her new friend, Ms. Cassandra!

Tony and Mr. John watered all of our peanuts!

Thank you so much Mr. John for coming by and helping us plant peanuts! We had a blast!

I'll keep everyone updated with the status of our peanut plants! I am quite eager to see if they grow or not!