Reading and Language Centers

Ms. Chassidy is working with us in our center on Homonyms. Ms. Chassidy told us that homonyms are words that sound the same but have different meanings. We worked with Ms. Chassidy match the correct homonyms. We to cut them apart and match them.

WE LOVE CENTERS! We work in centers everyday! We rotate through four centers everyday. We go to a Reading center, a Phonics center, a Writing center, and a Language center. Ms. Strum gives us hands-on activities that we enjoy doing. The centers that you will see pictured below are of us working on Homonyms, Syllables, Antonyms, Fiction/Non-Fiction, and Compare/Contrast.

Ms. Chassidy working with Shamiah, Tierra, Derrick, Ladarius C., Toni, and Karlon on Homonyms.

Myeesha is working on sorting Fiction and Non-Fiction passages. Ms. Strum taught us that fiction meant that it could not happen. Ms. Strum helped taught us an easy way to remember what Fiction means. Fiction=FAKE Ms. Strum taught us that non-fiction means that it could happen. Non-fiction=REAL Ms. Strum gave us ten passages that we had to cut out and read. We had to read the passages and determine if they were fiction or non-fiction.

Shaniah, Quaniesha, and Xzyia working on matching the correct antonyms. Ms. Strum taught us that ANTONYMS are words that mean the opposite of each other. We had to cut out and match the correct antonym with each other.

Marquavius and Karlon had at work looking for words in the magazine with one, two, three, or four syllables. Ms. Strum taught us that syllables are words broken into segments. Ms. Strum taught us that clapping out the word will help us determine the number of syllables.

Ladarious M. and Kenosha are working hard making a Venn Diagram to Compare/Contrast birds and animals from the story, The Great Ball Game. Ms. Strum taught us that when we compare, we tell the things that are alike and that when we contrast, we tell the things that are different.

We had a great time this week working in centers! Feel free to come by and visit and see all the hard work that we do daily!

RECESS

Marquavius, Toni, Ladarius C., Ladarious M., Karlon, Ashaunti, and Kesheona having a GREAT time hula-hooping.

We are back into the routine of things and working hard due to the days we missed due to water. As you can tell, Ms. Strum took us outside for us to have a refreshing break and to release some of our energy. Due to all the cold weather we have not been able to play outside like normal, we were so thankful for warm weather. WE HAD a GREAT TIME! Ms. Strum had as much fun as we did.

Karlon, Marquavius, Toni, Ladarious M., Ladarius C., and James moving those hips fast.

We are BACK!

Eddie checking over his work before glueing down.

We are BACK! The water situation has been fixed! We are back hard at work. This week we started learning about measurement. There are three words that Ms. Strum has been focusing on this week to help with measurement. We have been learning about length, weight, and capacity. Ms. Strum told us that lenght tells us how long, tall, or wide an object is, weight is how much something weighs, and capacity is how much something holds. Ms. Strum would hold up various objects and we would have to tell us if they went with length, weight, and capacity. Ms. Strum gave a sentence strip and squares of measurement tools. We had to match the correct measurement tool with what it is used for. For example, we had to match a thermometer with a sick child.

Toni had at work.

Shamiah showing off her hard work.

Our District Semester Tests!

We did AWESOME on our district tests!

We are back from our Christmas Holidays! It was nice to have a break, but we are back at school and working hard. Before we left for Christmas, we took our district semester tests. We learned and worked so hard to do our very best on the tests. Dr. Bowen and Mrs. Grigsby came around and told us that each and everyone of us passed at least one test. Ms. Strum tells us that she has the best class ever....and SHE DOES!