Snow Much Fun!!

Hello!  Happy 3rd day of winter!


Today we do not have any snow, so we made a game with paper.  We turned it into snow and launched them across the room.  It was a way to get out our excitement and work on strategic intervention to not get touched by snowballs that were "falling from the other side."

Check out our Melted Snowman

Smiles,

Nelson House

Comparisons and Contrasts of Lineville's Classroom Doors

Hello and happy Friday!

Today in Language Arts Nelson House students took a tour of Lineville to take pictures of their favorite decorated classroom doors.  Teachers had the option to decorate their door for the holidays.
Upon returning to the room, students needed to compare and contrast two of their favorite doors.  Factors they needed to look at include:  colors, textures, creativity, originality, time spent, theme, use of materials, etc.

Smiles,

Nelson House

QR Codes

Hello! :-)

Today we scanned QR codes to get a list of tongue twisters to practice.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Kindness List

Hello!

Today in Language Arts, Nelson House watched the following :Video  After the video, many students were inspired to write their own lists :-)

Nelson House,  you are giving, caring, and to be commended for your huge hearts.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Hair Gel-Vocabulary Fun (yes not just a hair product)

Hello!

Today we used hair gel to practice our vocabulary words.  From shaving cream to hair gel-oh what a feeling!

Smiles,
Nelson House

Stuff Your Stocking!!!

Hello!

Welcome to Tuesday!  It is not raining-WOOT!!!

Today we showed kindness by filling each other's "stocking" and envelopes by writing kindness cards for each student and then putting them in each other's "stockings" and envelopes.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Fractured Fairy Tales

Hello!!


Today in Language Arts and Writing we used Read, Write, and Think to publish Fractured Fairy Tales.

Fractured Fairy Tales

We also watched a version of The Three Little Pigs that many students had not seen and compared and contrasted it to the original version.

Smiles to you,
Nelson House

St. Jude's Kindness Project

Hello!

Believe it or not, it is December despite two days of rain.

Today in TEAM we made cards, hearts, and stars to show KINDNESS to kids who are fighting cancer at St. Jude's Hospital.

What fighters each and every child is at St. Jude!

Smiles,

Nelson House

Snow Globe Writing

Hello!!!

Today we finalized our final drafts of our Snow Globe writing.  We wrote descriptive pieces of how we got in it, what it felt like inside, what we did, and how we got out!!!

Congrats, writers!

Nelson House

Snowman/lady in TEAM

Hello!!

Today in TEAM we used toliet paper to make snowmen/ladies.  Beach House came and visited us and voted for their favorite.  Thanks, Beach House!

Smiles,

Nelson House

Robert Munsc

Hello!

Today we learned about compare and contrast-text structures.

We used hula-hoops and two students as a visual to compare and contrast those students.  Next, we listened to a read aloud of venn diagram from http://robertmunsch.com/  and then used a graphic organizer to compare/contrast to a story of Mr. Munsch's that I read.

Smiles,
Nelson House

Marshmallow Sculpture

Hello!

In Nelson House, during Ms. Wenzel's TEAM has been using marshmallows and noodles.

The challenge was put before them, and the took the challenge and rose to new heights.

Congrats!

Smiles,


Nelson House

Pie in the Face

Hello and can you believe we are in the 2nd week of Dec. already.

Today, our gym teacher got a sweet pie in the face. Why?  All to benefit Red Cross; congrats Roadrunners for the money you donated for this wonderful organization.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Google Earth and Trucker Buddy

HELLO!!!

Today in Language Arts we found out we will be corresponding with a Trucker from NE.  It is through the Trucker Buddy program.  We used Google Earth to visit his city and state!

We are excited to write to him and learn about his profession/experiences.

Smiles,


Nelson House

Pipecleaner Sequencing Activity

Hello!!!!

On Friday, in Language Arts, Nelson House students made pipe cleaner crafts.  In addition, they needed to write step by step how they made the item.  A peer then had to read the directions and replicate the item.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Skits

Happy Friday :-)

Yesterday and today we rehearsed and put on reader's theatre-skits.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Vocabulary Snowball Launch

Hello!!!

Today Nelson House played Snowball Launch-aka Clean Out Your Backyard-students used a piece of paper and needed to write a vocabulary word on their paper based on the definitions I gave them.  I then instructed them to launch their snowball across the room. The other side picked up the snowball to see if the word was corrected.  We then repeated till all the words were used.  It was a snowball blizzard time :-)

Smiles,
Nelson House

Holiday Gift :-)

Hello and happy 2nd day of December,

In Language Arts, Nelson House students have been working on Where I'm From poems.

Many students finished their final drafts today.  We framed them and and wrapped them :-)

Congrats, authors.

Smiles,

Nelson House

Personalized Learning!!

Hello!

In the Nelson House we have been striving to personalize learning.  Here are a few examples :-)

Sequel to a Turkey Story

Vocabulary Game

Smiles,

Nelson House