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This week in reading and writing stations, the kids sorted raindrops underneath umbrellas to show the 2 parts of compound words, put spring words in ABC order, wrote about birds and springtime, matched beginning blends with pictures, made compound words, matched rhyming pictures and words, and added 2 words together to make compound words.

Birds

This week in science we talked about birds. On Monday, we watched the bird part of our BrainPOP on classifying animals. After our BrainPOP, we make a list of characteristic birds have and some that birds do not have.

Tuesday, the kids chose either an owl, duckling or chick to decorate either with crayons and colored pencils or with feathers.

After they decorated their different birds, the kids who had owls and chicks made nests for their birds by gluing timothy hay onto a paper cut-out of a nest. While the duckling kids colored a mama duck for their ducklings to follow. Needless to say, our room was filthy ... but it was worth it! :)

Wednesday, the kids drew their favorite bird and that bird's habitat. 

His eagle had a nest on top of some rocks.

Thursday, the kids wrote 3 facts about birds, then drew an example of a bird on a paper in their science journals.

Friday, the kids drew 3 pictures of birds and one picture of an animal that was not a bird in their science journals.

Adding and Graphing

This week in the math the kids practiced addition and subtraction, used dice to finish addition problems, graphed insects and showed one more and less with numbers.

At their first station this week, the kids rolled dice to get the second half of their addition problems. After they wrote the number for the amount they rolled on the dice, the used the frame on their paper to add that many dots and solve their problems.

At their second station this week, the kids used a paper clip and pencil to make a spinner on their paper and spun the see if they were going to solve an addition or subtraction problem. Once they landed on either addition or subtraction, they chose a problem to solve and used linking cubes or bears to help them if they needed to.

At their third station this week, the kids sorted and graphed insects! The found all of the like insects and colored the graph to show how many of each insect there were.

At my table this week, the kids used dry erase boards to write the answer to a problem I gave them. I asked them to show me a number 1 greater than a specific number or to show me a number 1 less than a specific number.