We had another famous female come to visit today--Annie Oakley! Many thanks to Mike Cogdall for the Oscar-worthy performance.
During our language arts period, the girls learned about breaking words into chunks (aka syllables). We taught them three different ways to break apart a word: clap it out, robot speak and holding their hand under their chin. Ask your daughter which way was her favorite.
As we broke apart all of our names into syllables, most of the girls chose robot speak. Here are two of our robots breaking apart their names.
We finished our syllable activity by getting into partners and sorting St. Patrick's Day words by chunks.
In math the girls learned about parallel lines. After looking at different shapes and identifying the parallel lines on the shapes, the girls broke up into partners and groups to create human parallel lines. Finally, using the Educreations app, the girls took pictures of items in our classroom that have parallel lines. They then recorded themselves "teaching" their friends why these objects had parallel lines.
To end our day, we had a special Mystery Reader--Mrs. McMahon's father! We think the girls were a little shocked to see that Mrs. McMahon actually has a dad :-)
