Monster Boxes and Research Reports

So yesterday we started to make our monster boxes. They came out very cute. I like the fact that for the most part each one looks very unique. Some students chose to have one eye while others chose two or three. Our monster boxes we got the idea off of someone's Pinterest board. We used egg cartons for the eyes and kleenex boxes for the bodies. We then made them our own by adding pipe cleaner arms and googly eyes on top of the egg cartons. I was quite proud of the students most of them followed all the directions without too many disasters. Out of our original 2-3 helpers we were supposed to have we only ended up getting one. Her help was much appreciated though! Our Valentine's Day decorations have started to come up around the room. I'm excited to do our Bee Mine bumblebees tomorrow too!

Today we wrapped up our animal research reports. Our final copies were written, our illustrations were drawn and our diagrams were labeled. The students even created cover pages for their books. We also wrapped up chapter 6 in math and had our post test. I'm very curious to see how they are doing. I decided to hold off on starting a new chapter for a day or two so I can focus more on subtraction with regrouping. I have about 3 kiddos how are still struggling with it. They seem to know how to do it sometimes and other times they completely forget how to!

Manetta asked our director if we could have a fish tank in our classroom and with a little bit of discussion the director agreed. We can't have goldfish because they're "too dirty" but we can have tropical fish. She went out and got the fish at lunch. The students were so excited. They were told yesterday to start brainstorming ideas for names. They named the male purple Beta fish, Karate! Interesting name I know!

We did one other fun thing today... we made masks for Mardi Gras! Tomorrow we'll display them with a picture!