Tuesday, November 22, 2022

Halloween Fun!

 Candy Corn Mazes

With our Candy Corn returned, we were able to make Candy Corn Mazes.  Our challenge was to work with a partner to build a maze with Legos.  Then, we had to get a candy corn through the maze. Check out out our creative mazes. 








Halloween Costumes

We had lots of amazing costumes this year! 




























Candy Corn Bandit

 

Candy Corn Bandit

The Candy Corn Bandit stole Mrs. Wanke's candy!  Mrs. Wanke needed those for our Halloween Party! Look what Mrs. Wanke found when she tried to sit in her chair...





 a letter from the Candy Corn Bandit, Candy Corn Bandit booklets for each of us, and a clue!  On the inside we had to draw what we predicted the Candy Corn Bandit to look like. 




Then, we had to predict three places we thought the candy corns might be.






Finally it was time to read the first clue and set off on our candy corn hunt!



We made a prediction based upon what we read in clue one.  We predicted the candy would be in the lunch room! When we got to the lunch room...all we found was another clue. 



 After reading that clue, we predicted that we would find the candy in the gym.
When we got to the gym, all we found was another clue.


  After reading that clue, we predicted we would find the candy on the play ground.  When we got outside, all we found was ANOTHER clue!



  After reading that clue, we predicted we would find the candy in the library.  But, when we got the the library, all we found was ANOTHER clue! Boy oh boy this Candy Corn bandit was causing some trouble! 



After reading the clue, we predicted we would find the candy in the classroom.
When we got to the classroom...what do YOU predict we found?
You got it...the CANDY and another clue!


Clue #6 told us to keep our eyes open and our candy protected.  We also had to finish up the last page of our Candy Corn Bandit book before we could get our candy corn.


This activity was great for making predictions and inferences.  Not only did we predict where the candy would be, we also made predictions about how the bandit was able to pull off this crime, did the bandit have an accomplice, how big was the bandit, and what was the bandits motive. 

When we got back to the class, Mrs. Wanke had a light bulb moment.  She said that we could use predictions and inferences when we read!  WOW...she is right. 

Friday, October 28, 2022

Monster of a Week

 We had a MONSTER of a week!  

We started our week off with some great monster stories to practice our retelling! (Click on the covers of each book below to listen to the story at home.) 






Later in the week we read a non-fiction text about real life creepy animals.  After we read about each animal we wrote down three facts. We had to pull the facts directly from the text.  We put these facts in a giant chart to be used later to write a creepy animals riddles!


Here are some of our creepy animal riddles.  You can check out more at parent teacher conferences!







In math we worked hard to memorize our facts of 10!.  We played Feed My Monster while in math groups.  Feed My Monster is played like a memory game, but to a make a match you have to have 2 cards that equal 10.  After we flipped the first card, Mrs. Wanke would not let us flip the second card until we told her what the matching card should be. 





























No match today. :)


We also made a monster craft.  The spikes represented a fact of 10!