The Students Went Over the Mountain

Can you believe that it's January already! So sorry for the lack of post in December, between Christmas break and me being gone a week it was a very hectic time! It was really nice to come back and see my students again! 

We started some BIG stuff this week by learning about mountains! On Monday we discussed mountains and hiking. We then built our own mountains using Play-Doh.. One Tuesday the students were very excited to learn about volcanoes! We even had a model volcano that exploded. The students then worked together to write a story about the volcano. Here is what they wrote...

Volcano

We learned about volcanoes. 

Mrs. Tonner put vinegar, food coloring, and baking soda the middle of the volcano.

It erupted!

The volcano puffed up and was bubbly.

It sounded like cream soda

On Thursday we learned about panning for gold in the mountains. The student panned for their own gold, and found some gold chocolate nuggets! They then wrote and drew pictures about what they would do if they found real gold. Some answers were to buy a pet bird, four-wheeler, pony castle, and a tractor. 

In phonics we have begun to learn about letter blends This week we read words beginning with br, gr, st, sp. This means that there are some 5 letter words we are working on, like "stand", "grands", and "still".

In math we are diving deeper and deeper into adding skills. We are now adding money, and writing the problems vertically!

Next week we will continue to learn about places around the country by learning about rivers!