March Madness!

This week during CLC Breakfast Club we have been incorporating basketball into the classroom in honor of March Madness and one of Mrs. Johnson's favorite sports: basketball.

Each student made their own basketball bobble head that looked just like them.  Students did a great job following directions and using their creative skills to make unique basketball players.  It was fun how students showed their personalities and made their projects different by adding muscles to their players or designing fancy sneakers.  All of the basketball players are proudly hanging on the classroom door and window. 

Anayeli works on her bobble head basketball player.

Nathan wanted his basketball player to have a big number, so he chose 99.

Jasmin and Moises work on finishing their basketball players.

Moises shows off his bobble head basketball player.  He added big muscles to make his unique.

Anayeli proudly shows off her finished player.

Check out our awesome door and window display!

We have also been reviewing for our third quarter math tests by playing basketball.  Students could choose an easy (one point), medium (two points), or difficult (three points) question to answer.  All of the questions were similar to what they would see on their tests.  When students got the question right, they were able to shoot a basket from the three different locations.  The harder the question, the further away students had to be from the basket.  It was fun to see which questions students would pick in order to score the most points.

Anayeli got her "level 1" question right so she attempted to make a basket.

Javian loved answering the difficult questions to earn a chance to shoot a three-pointer.  He was really good at making baskets because he was our high-scorer with 12 points.  Good job Javian!

If I Were President...

Combining what we have been reading about presidents and learning about recent elections, the reporters of the Luther Scoop thought about what they would do if they were president.  Students wrote about what they would change or do differently to make the world a better place.  They then used the program PhotoStory3 to create their own commercials as a way to  advertise what they would do as president.  Students were very thoughtful and sincere in coming up with different ways to help people and animals if they were president.  Students also thought of some silly things they would want to do as president.  Each student also came up with a clever campaign slogan so that their voters would remember them.

Check out our videos:

Stacy's Video

Jaqui's Video

Yusi's Video

Moises' Video

Diana's Video

Alexis' Video

Danielle's Video

Teshana's Video

Viola's Video



Read Across America Week!

This week we are celebrating Read Across America.  Dr. Seuss's birthday is also this week so we have been doing different reading activities related to Dr. Seuss.  The students have also had fun with rhyming words.

On Tuesday we made our own Thing 1 and Thing 2 posters.

Students worked hard to create the bodies for their Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Anayeli used a photo of her own face to make her Thing 1 and Thing 2.

Students painted their hands blue and used their hands to add fun hair to Thing 1 and Thing 2.

We then completed a poem that went with our Thing 1 and Thing 2 posters.  Nathan created a cool poem.

To end our week, we used the Smartboard to practicing our rhyming skills.  Above, Keven rolled two dice to see if he could find a pair of rhyming words.  Sadly, shoe and jar did not rhyme.

Jasmin took a turn to see if she could find a rhyming pair.