Holiday Card Pen Pal Project

This holiday season the CLC Breakfast Club is again participating in the Holiday Card Pen Pal Project by Projects By Jen.  We were assigned 29 other schools across the United States and Canada as our holiday pen pals and we also picked to send a card to a children's hospital in Wisconsin.  This year's theme for our cards was snow globes.

Members of the Breakfast Club worked hard this week to create the cards.  We used construction paper, crayons, and paint to decorate our  cards.  We put our cards in the mail on Friday so we hope our pen pals will receive their cards soon.  We are looking forward to receiving cards from our pen pals too so we can learn more about their classes and where they live.    

First we made our snow globes by drawing different winter scenes with crayons.

Next we used paintbrushes to add "snow" to our snow globes.

The next step was using the white paint to add "snow" to our trees for the front cover.

We then wrote a holiday greeting on the front of our cards.

CLC Breakfast Club Celebrates Thanksgiving!

During the week of Thanksgiving the boys and girls in CLC Breakfast Club participated in different math and literacy activities that related to turkeys and Thanksgiving.  All of the students agreed that they were most thankful for their families.

Keven made a turkey using different math facts.

Students had fun making the turkeys.

We went on a turkey hunt.  Students found feather hidden around the room and had to come and answer a math question on their whiteboards.

If students correctly answered their question, they were able to glue a feather on the big turkey.

We named the finished turkey Fred.  Students did a great job finding all of the feathers and answering the math questions.

We  used the smartboard to play a math turkey game.

We also used the smartboard to play a Thanksgiving word game.

Library Night

Luther's Latino family group recently enjoyed a night at the public library.  We received a tour of the library from Ms. Minetta, the children's librarian, and Amy, who is in charge of the adult section of the library.  They were both very helpful in sharing information about the library.  Everyone had the opportunity to sign up for library cards and check out different books or videos to take home.  It was a fun night!

We went on a tour of the library.

Miriam, Evelyn, and Bernardo enjoyed seeing every part of the library.

Anett, Yusi, Stacy, and Diana had fun!

The girls had a fun time looking at all of the dvds that they could check out to take home.

Yusi, Bernardo, and their mom signed up to get library cards.

Karina and Hector have their dad help them pick out a book bag for their items.

Rafael liked using the computer.

Jeni helps her family use the self-checkout station to check out Evelyn's books.

 

4th Grade Verb Video

Mrs. Schuenke's 4th grade class has been learning about parts of speech during writing time.  After viewing a short video about nouns, students were inspired to create their own video about verbs.  Students brainstormed different verbs and then acted them out for the video.  Small groups also worked hard at performing their own rap to share the definition of a verb.  Sawyer was even inspired to write his own rap line for the production.  Mrs. Hartin, Mrs. Schuenke, and I had fun helping students learn about verbs while making this video.  The students did a great job and I think they will remember that a verb is an action word thanks to this experience.  Check out the video below!    

Evelin's Busy Barns Trip Video

Evelin's Busy Barns Trip

Miriam's Busy Barns Trip Video

Miriam's Busy Barns Trip

Diana's Busy Barns Trip Video

Diana's Busy Barns Trip

Anayeli's Busy Barns Trip Video

Anayeli's Busy Barns Trip

Keven's Busy Barns Trip Video

Keven's Busy Barns Trip

College Campus and Cyber Bullying

Friday, October 19th the fifth grade reporters of the Luther Scoop were rewarded for their hard work by having the opportunity to attend a play at UW-Whitewater's Young Auditorium.  Thanks to the program Arts4All, we received free tickets to attend the show "Virtually Me".  Students enjoyed the play very much and learned about cyber bullying and the impact it has on the people involved.  All of the students said they loved everything about the play, but one of their favorite moments was getting to take a pledge with the actors to stop cyber bullying.  While at UW-Whitewater, we were able to take a quick look around campus.  The students were really impressed with the campus and all agreed that they wanted to go to college one day.

Alexis and Viola eagerly wait for the show to start.

Yusi and Alexia loved how close our seats were to the stage.

Everyone is ready for the show to begin.

Students posed by showing their best happy faces  :)

They then showed their sad faces :(

We had a great time at the theater!

After the play, we had fun exploring some of the popular places on the UW-Whitewater campus.

CLC Breakfast Club Visits Busy Barns

Thursday, October 18th, the CLC Breakfast Club along with the After-School CLC groups went on a field trip to Busy Barns.  Earlier this week students had fun learning about harvest time and about different animals that they would see on the farm.  Check out some of our photos from our trip.  Next week each student will be making their own video about their experience at Busy Barns.  We had such a fun time on our trip and students were asking when they could go back to Busy Barns.

Keven and Natanael were very excited for the trip.

Evelin and Anayeli ride around the track on the bikes.

Diana gets some help from her mom who also came on the trip with us.

Anayeli did a great job in the sack race.

The CLC students stopped to take a picture in front of the giant bee.

Here is a photo of all of our friends in the CLC Breakfast Club.

Keven had fun driving the tractor.

Evelin had fun pretending to ride the horse.

Anayeli tries her best to milk the cow.

Natanael zoomed down the big slide.

Keven used a spoon to feed the sheep.

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The goat tickled Anayeli's hands when he ate the food.

Natanael loved the black kitten.

Miriam had fun playing in the corn.

Stacy helped Anayeli put her pumpkin in her bag.

Incorporating the iPad

Our school was fortunate enough to receive 50 iPads at the start of the school year.  My students and I have been incorporating the iPads into our LLI reading intervention lessons whenever we can.  During our phonics/word work lessons the students use their iPads to show what they know.  It is great being able to have the iPads because each student is able to participate while I am able to assess each student individually.  The students enjoy using the iPads and are extra motivated to do their reading lessons when they know they can use the iPads.  Besides using the iPads during reading time, we have found many other ways to use them throughout our day.

My first grade reading group uses the iPads to show that they can hear the sound at the beginning of a word.

Evelyn works hard to use the correct letter formation when writing her letters.

Brittany concentrates as she writes her answer using the DoodleBuddy app.

Miriam uses the iPad to practice reading and writing sight words.

Natanael uses the iPad to practice writing his letters correctly.

Melanie, a kindergarten student, was able to use the iPad to practice her colors.

Karina enjoyed practicing English color words using the Simon Says app.

Gibson concentrates intensely on following the color pattern on the iPad.

Ashley and Jasmine use the iPad to record Ms. Maniaci, our school's IMC director, during an interview for our school newspaper.

Teshana finished writing and editing her rough draft for the newspaper.  She is able to use a special iPad that has a keyboard connected to it to type her final draft for the paper.