2nd Grade
As I was visiting 2nd grade, I noticed some fun stuff that I wanted to share!
Positive Reward System: When the students have good behavior, they get a hole punch in a card at the end of the day. When they fill up the hole punch card, they get to use the Ipad to take a picture of the SURPRISE QR code of their choice. Each code tells them a surprise job they get to do that week: Get the teacher’s mail, water the plants etc. They love it. Taking the picture and seeing their surprise job. What another great way to use QR CODES in the classroom!!!
5 steps closer to my fluency goals:
Since our 2nd grades are focusing on reading fluency and math fluency a lot this year. This class is encouraging them to get faster by weekly readings and math fact quizzes. Each time they improve by 5 (the magic number) or more, they get to put their name on a foot and the teacher puts it up on the wall. Blue is math and red is reading. They are doing awesome, and love to see how much they improve by or need to. 🙂
Trick or Reading
It’s that time of year again…the fourth graders put on their reading and creativity skills to bring you Trick or Reading! After all the craziness of Halloween, our students finished their week by walking through the Fourth Grade classrooms to see their pumpkin book reports!
If you aren’t sure what Trick or Reading is: The Fourth Graders choose a book to read during the month of October. They then create a poster using the story elements of the book, and decorate a pumpkin as one of the main characters, as a visual. 🙂 We set them up throughout our classrooms and have people walk through to look at the reports and have the students briefly explain their book.
Way to go 4th Grade! What a fabulous way for us to end the week!
Way to go 4th Grade! What a fabulous way for us to end the week!
First Grade Making Connections!
Here at QUEST we have spent time on training our teachers to use some fabulous “Reading Strategies” that help make our students “THINK” while they read! By having them THINK about their READING, it will help them understand, remember and comprehend their text. Here is one of our First Grade Classes working on a strategy called “Making Connections.”
The teacher started teaching their student’s what SCHEMA is, having them understand that your schema is all the information that you know, your prior knowledge, your experiences, the new facts you have read about and more!Friday, they were using the schema while listening to a book read aloud by their teacher. They were to actually make a “connection” with a character from the Text.
She had modeled to them the difference between a THICK and a THIN connections to make sure that they understood the importance of making a connection that was important to understanding the text first.
Below are pics of her students recording their thoughts on paper and them singing a song to help them understand what SCHEMA really is!
This is a GREAT strategy to use at home with your own child while you are listening to them read each night. I bet they will be familiar with ScHeMa and Connections from their class also!
Remember: READING IS THINKING!
Noodle Towers Anyone?
Mrs. Hutchinson was a proud teacher today! She had her class put their “Thinking Caps” on and get to work! The goal was to build the tallest, free standing tower, that could hold a giant marshmallow on top. The only tools the students could use were 20 uncooked spaghetti noodes and one yard of tape. Students had 20 minutes to complete the task. The tallest tower was 11 inches tall!
She wanted her class to learn that thinking can be fun! It also taught them that sometimes we succeed and sometimes we don’t, but we never give up!
2nd Grade is Up and Going
Check out what this 2nd Grade class has already accomplished this year!
Way to GO!
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2nd Grade Headed off to Antelope Island
A few fun snapshots from their field trip! Always an adventure in learning!
Kid Pix 3D Third Grade Examples
Our wonderful Third Grade have been having fun with our new Digital Art Computer Program! Kid Pix 3D! It can do soooooooo many wondeful things and is a fantastic resource available for our teachers and students!
Here are a couple of examples of what this
3rd Grade class can do!
Spotlight on 1st Grade Centers
We love CENTERS at our school! Here is a spotlight on one of our 1st Grade classrooms! We have the BEST teachers ever!
In Mrs. Dunmeyer’s 1st grade centers, she has used a very wide variety of centers activities. Her class has 13 different centers activities that the students rotate between. Some of the students’ favorite centers include:
– Banger! (apick-up-sticks game using Fry’s Word Phrases) – Doggy Drop (students throw a dog stuffed animal onto a $1 shower curtain covered in words. The students must read the word that the dog falls onto in order to score points.) – Monster Mash (students use cute flower-covered fly swatters to swat “word monsters.” They must read the word first!) – Monster Munch (students read and sort words by “feeding” them to monsters (bags). Each monster has a taste for a specific word type, such as -igh, -ed, and -ough words.) – Lilly Pad Leap (students place lily pads covered in sight words on the floor, and, as they read them, they leap from pad to pad)Thanks Mrs. Dunmeyer for sharing these great Learning Center Ideas with us!
