Day 3 of Animal Research: Putting It Altogether!

  Our class, combined with Mrs. Hall's class, went to the library for our final day of animal research.  We began by learning how to use PixnTell, a slideshow app on the iPad.  Mrs. Berumen modeled the process we would follow to create our slideshow.  After we completed our slideshow, Mrs. Goins and Mrs. Berumen helped us upload our work onto YouTube.  If you are wanting to see our awesome slideshows, you will need to attend Open House on Thursday, March 7 @ 6:00.  Hope to see you then!

Students are watching as Mrs. Berumen demonstrates how to title our slideshow in PixnTell.

Mrs. Berument is modeling how to upload our photos from our camera roll.

Mrs. Goins is explaining to a group of girls how to record and save.

Mrs. Berumen is helping a group of students upload their slideshow to YouTube.

Students are working on their PixnTell.

Students are listening to their animal research slideshow that they have on YouTube.

Engineering has taken on new life!

Bella Truman took engineering to a whole new level in making her snack! WOW!! Great and creative thinking!

Research Day 2

Today was our second day of animal research and what a day we had!  Mrs. Berumen and Mrs. Goins were on hand to help us with this next step.  Today we learned to use School Clipart to find photos depicting various animal facts that we had previously gathered using the World Book app.  We saved the pictures we found to our camera roll then uploaded them to a new app called, Skitch.  In Skitch we were able to label the parts of our animal and add captions to the pictures.  Our next step for the next two days will be to write a script for the pictures we used in Skitch.  This is in preparation for our third day in the library which will be learning yet another app, PixnTell.  Stayed tuned for more details of our animal research!

Jada and Kameron are working on the alligator while Aston, Jack, Harley and Jake are focused on the Cobra.

Micallen, Landon and Nick are trying to decide which picture to use for the title page of Alligators.

Mrs. Goins is helping the dolphin group select pictures.

Mrs. Hall was helping the hummingbird and panda group.

Mrs. Berumen is helping the group of students make their picture selection.

Nandini, Lizbeth, Natalie and Paige are all working to add captions to the photos in Skitch.

Spelling Focus

The new spelling focus for February 28 through March 8 is:  long-o-consonant-silent-e.  Examples of this pattern are:  hope, note, cone, rose.  The two high frequency words are:  a and an.  The test for this new pattern will be on Friday, March 8.  Remember, you can access Spelling City from this blog.  Once here, your child will find several activities that will allow them to practice this new spelling pattern.

Animal Research

On Thursday our class and Mrs. Hall's class went to the library to do animal research with Mrs. Berumen.  To prepare for this day our classes have been studying the text features of non-fiction. While in the library, Mrs. Berumen showed us how to use the iPads and an app called, World of Animals, for gathering our information.  We were put together in groups according to the animal we selected then we began working together to find the information needed for our tree map.  We were completely and totally engaged in research for over an hour....my how time flies!

Natalie and Nandini are working talking about dolphins.

Landon, Nick, Micallen, Jada and Kameron were working together to learn about alligators.

Natalie is helping Paige find information on dolphins.

Field Trip to Fort Worth Museum!

Wow, what an awesome way to end Engineering Week!  Our trip to the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History was fun, exciting, and packed full of totally engaging learning experiences.  It all began on the bus ride to the museum.  Students were noticing and commenting on the road construction and how it was engineering.  Then when we arrived, we went into the Omni Theater to watch The Ring of Fire.  You could feel the excitement as the students waited as patiently as possible for the movie to start.  After the movie, the real fun began!  The pictures below tell the rest of the story, enjoy!

Aston and Jackson are working on a dinosaur computer activity.

Jack, Harley and Mrs. Thiel are excited about The Ring of Fire!

Lizbeth and Jake have no idea what they will experience at the Energy Blast 4D movie!

Trey, Lizbeth, Harley, Jack and Jake learned how to use vibration to locate natural gas inside the Earth.

Students experienced how we can harness various types of natural energy to power a city.

Lizbeth still doesn't know if she wants to trade her bed for this bed of nails!

Jada is experiencing spinning like an ice skater....Hold on tight!

Jack, Nandini, Lizbeth and Micallen are having fun making a tornado.

Tray is discovering various sounds by putting his head in a tuning fork.

Harley and Nandini are working to create objects to test in the wind chamber.

Manya, Nandini and Lizbeth are testing their creations.

Jada is trying a hand at "driving" the cattle into the enclosure.

Marshall is giving the grocery store a try.

Trey and Jack are having fun with the train building area.

Aston worked with another child to build the sturdy structure, well done!

Jackson, Aston and Marshall worked together to make train tracks.

Jackson is working to put together dinosaur bones.

Jake is giving the train track a test run.

Jack, Harley and Trey are having fun!  What do you think Mrs. Thiel is thinking?

Our awesome class after a fun-filled day at the museum!

Spelling Focus

The Spelling focus for 2/11-2/18 is long i-consonant-silent-e.  Examples of words that follow this pattern are:  like, smile, white, pipe and wide.  The two high frequency words are:  eight and ate.