Fabulous and Fun Friday!!!

We had such a great Friday at UMS!  We did our "visions" of spring art project for the hallway and explored IPADS as a class!  Ohhhh, the excitement!!!  UMS school is thrilled to now have an IPad cart with 20 IPads.

Announcement of The IPad Cart

Exploring!!

Iditarod Mushers!

Making Inferences with No, David!

We have been learning about making inferences when we read.  We did a whole group activitiy with the book "No, David"!  by David Shannon.  Then, each student chose a page to tell me what their inference was.  I am trying out a new piece of technology called Voicethread.  I hope it captures student learning and understanding of this reading skill.

Pizza Greeting: School-Wide Meeting

Today we had a "School-Wide" Meeting (where the whole school gets together) and our class lead and taught the greeting.  The students chose "Pizza, Pizza" a fun greeting we learned from Mrs. Lucier.  Here is a video to enjoy!

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Balance and Motion

We have been exploring the concepts of Balance and Motion.  The students have contracts with activitites that are "have-to's" and choices.  Here are some photos of balancing and motion...

 A Morning Greeting balancing a bird

Balancing a paper crayfish

Our folders

Reading books about balance and motion

Experimenting with "pull and push" concept to get our marble moving!

Individual student ramps

Getting our bodies in "motion"

Trampoline movement!

Yo-Yo's - more force using the pull and push concept

Yearbook!

Mr. Antonicci came in and took a class photo for the school yearbook!