Thursday, May 23, 2013

Open House


Welcome to my classroom's Open House! There were many exciting things like the Kelp Forest and poetry. Below is a picture of the the magnetism station. There were many interesting things to do like take iron sand and a magnet and see how the stronger magnets attract the iron sand.

Photo by Mrs. Yollis






Photo by Mrs. Yollis
There were also two and three dimensional shape paragraphs. The second graders wrote about their favorite 2-D shapes, and the third graders talked about their favorite 3-D shapes. It was more difficult for the third graders because we had to write  in cursive. Do you like to write in cursive?  

We also wrote Haikus. A Haiku is a piece of poetry and the first and last line have 5 syllables and the middle line has 7 syllables. If you want to learn more about Haiku's go to Abbey's Articulate Artistry and find the post Spectacular Spring Haiku's.
Photo by Mrs. Yollis



Photo by Mrs. Yollis
We had a  Biography time line. We placed our desks based on the year our person was born. Benjamin Franklin was born first, so whoever had him was first. The third graders had to bring in a diorama of the person, and the second graders had to bring in a artifact.



Photo by Mrs.Yollis

 
Then we had the Mrs. Yollis story quilt. The Mrs. Yollis story quilt was a quilt we made out of paper featuring the fun times we had.  A few examples were when we made volcanoes, or when we had dot day. On each quilt patch we drew a picture of what we were making a patch about, and then wrote a sentence or two.





Photo by Mrs. Yollis
We had fun with quotation marks! Earlier in the year we made something out of paper tangrams. Later in the year we decided to make our tangram picture into little comics. We took the tangrams, and picked who we should make a comic with. If the two or more tangrams had something in common then they could make a comic.

Monday, May 13, 2013

Mother's Day/ Beach Day


Photo by Collin's mom


Sunday was Mother's Day and we did something special. When my mom woke up, I made my delicious chocolate chip pancakes and we ate them outside. Then, we decided to head to the beach, but first we had to stop at the store and get some lunch. When we arrived it was so foggy it looked like icebergs were on the water, but a few hours later, the clouds cleared up.

In the afternoon, I decided to go boogie boarding. There was one wave I caught and had my leash on, but then I  fell off the board and I was still riding the wave on the sand.


What did you do for Mother's Day?

What is your favorite beach activity?