Unit 3.1 What Makes Us Famous

My 3rd graders have been busy with our first unit, What Makes Us Famous.  They read the Roberto Clemente Story, and made a timeline where they organized the story events.  We studied fiction and nonfiction, literary genres, and parts of a book/informational text. Currently, they are learning about the sense, how to make sentences, and transitions.

Transitions Foldable

We will begin to read the story "Estrellita Say Goodbye to Her Island".  

2nd Grade Unit 2.2 Where Are We

2nd graders have started with unit 2.2 Where are we.  They are learning new vocabulary words related to landforms and identifying these on a map of our island.

After reading the story "The Tiny Seed" by Eric Carle, students did a foldable activity where they drew pictures of the story organization Beginning, Middle, and End.

Through the story, they learned about the four seasons.  They did an accordion foldable showing what happens in each season.  They really loved and enjoyed this activity!

Recently, we've begun to read the story "If You Give a Mouse a Cookie" by Laura Joffe Numeroff.  The kids learned and practiced the vocabulary words.  They also learned about context clues.  Here's a cute foldable they did using the vocabulary words from the story.

2nd Grade Nouns (updated)

In 2nd grade, the kids have learned imperative and declarative sentences, word order, and writing sentences correctly.  Now, the are learning about nouns.  Here is an activity they did where they had to classify nouns under persons, places, or things.

Activity from www.theteacherwife.blogspot.com

Proper and Common Noun Activities 

Activity from Scholastic Book Grammar Manipulatives Kids Love

Verb Tense Foldables (Updated)

4th graders have been busy learning about adjectives, figurative language, the senses, and just recently verbs.  The recent activity they did was to create a foldable, where they had to sort the verbs in past, present, and future tense.  They always love to do foldables, and were motivated to do this activity.

5th Graders have been working on prepositional phrases and verbs.  In this activity, they made verb tense matchbox foldables.  They had to read and write sentences under the flap of past, present or future tense, and identify the verb. 

5th Grade Unit 4 "Cendrillon"

5th graders will begin to read the story "Cendrillon".  In order for them to get background knowledge about the setting, Martinique, we read a selection from the textbook called "The Island of Martinique".  Later, they saw a video about Martinique.  They had to pay close attention, because they were going to compare and contrast Martinique to Puerto Rico.  They really enjoyed the activity, and they were surprised to learn that we had some things in common to Martinique.

After finishing the story "Cendrillon', students created a flapbook project.  In first flapbook, they had to draw pictures of what happened first, next, then, and last.  In another flapbook, they compared and contrasted the story to a short "Cinderella" video.