At Home in the Ocean Journeys Lesson 11

This week we are living in the ocean!  We are reading about sharks from our vocabulary reader.  Our main textbook section can be found HERE.  We have completed a graphic organizer about what sharks have, what they are, and what sharks can do.  We used those facts to write a triple whammy sentence (3 ideas separated by commas in a sentence).  We used what we learned to write a paragraph about sharks, too.  After completing our paragraphs the students got eaten by a great white shark!

My co-teacher had 2 students create sharks at home and brought them to class to share.  I just had to post these awesome sharks to our page! 

 

 

A great white shark greets the class in room 19.

                                 Watch out for the stinging jelly fish!
I added some slow motion wave videos one morning, Jaws music another day, and scuba diving in a real coral reef video on Friday.

After reading about sea creatures we can write about them.  We will add drawings of them to our ocean mural in the hallway.

We have to have some ocean buddies to read all those good books to!

What is an ocean without a little background whale singing and calming underwater sounds?

Our ocean sight words this week that have to be memorized.

The students will make this  and add it to the shark paragraphs after writing this week.
Watch out for the big waves at the doorway!

A school of sharks soon to be Christmas gifts!  The classes will make one into a refrigerator magnet and the other into a Christmas ornament!  I be not too many parents  have sharks hanging on their Christmas trees!

Our Freedom, the Flag, and Veterans Day

We learned about our flag and our freedoms.  We wrote a paragraph about what we like about our freedom.  We used an app called "Chatter Pix" to record our work.  It was put on our main T.V. in the hallway so everyone could enjoy it.

by Slaton

by Davin

by Emma

by Aniya

by Isaac

by Cooper

by Javel

by Izzy

by Braelynn

by Destiny

by Elijah

by Kyle

We also had a Veterans Day celebration.  Our school chorus sang.  We had several veterans come from some of our students' families.

 PHS ROTC

  Aren't they cute!

 Honoring our flag ceremony by the PHS ROTC.

Our choir singing the Star Spangled Banner

Awards Ceremony for October

 We had our awards ceremony for first grade and kindergarten last week.  I just wanted to post some of the photos I took as the students received their awards. Mr. Laugh, our awesome principal, was ready with all the awards!