A Few Famous Americans....Including Dr. Seuss!

What a great week!  We started the week finishing our animal unit and students created a "graffiti wall" using a "mind dump."  What exactly does that mean?  It means they took all the information from their mind about animals, life cycles, habitats, and adaptations and drew pictures and wrote information on bulletin board paper!  It was a fun way to review and brought out the students' creative side!

In the past couple of weeks, we've also finished contractions and sent a shout out to the end of winter with a snowball fight and Valentine's Day.

This week, we also shared our Famous American projects.  We had 9 Jackie Robinsons (!), 4 Helen Kellers, a Billie Holiday (and we listened to her music as well!), Albert Einstein, Morgan Garrett (inventor of the traffic signal), Thomas Edison, George Washington, Abraham Lincoln, and Harriet Tubman.  I loved the variety of people we learned about!

We also celebrated Dr. Seuss's birthday with activities all week, including wockets in our pockets, making our own green eggs and ham poetry, what we would say to Horton if we were a Who, and creating a hat using a glyph about what we like to read!

Next week, we will be starting our plant unit (life cycle, parts, uses, and erosion) as well as our friendly letter unit.  It's also back to the homework packets!  Please make sure to keep practicing those math facts with your child, as well as telling time and counting money!  These are basic skills students need to master before third grade! ;)