Sailing away...

This week we learned about the letter Ee and its short and long sounds! We’ve been practicing with word families and rhyming words (-ed, -en). Sometimes this vowel can get confused with /a/ or /i/, but we are learning to hear the /e/ within words when reading and spelling phonetically!  Our word this week was “was”! so we practiced using it along with our other sight words in sentences.

Gwyneth used old and new sight words in her sentences!

Speaking of the letter Ee, we did a few “e”xperiments with boats! Check out some of the fun activities we did!

Will it sink or float? Using items from our classroom,
the kiddos made predictions about whether they will sink or float!

Some great pictures and fantastic labeling!

Each student made a boat of foil and predicted how many pennies it could hold before it sank!
Many were so surprised that their boats could hold more pennies than they thought!

We did a directed draw watercolor picture of sailboats!

They all drew the same scene, but each picture was unique!

Ayli wants to take a speed boat to Hawaii! Can I come?

As a culmination of our transportation unit, the students cut out pictures of different types of transportation and glued them in the air, water, and land for the cover of their Transportation books.

Avery’s cover looks great with her different modes of transportation!

For the final page of their Transportation books, they wrote an opinion piece about what they think is the best transportation. I asked them to give me reasons to support their opinion and they took on the challenge!

Abbey wrote several reasons why a submarine is the best transportation.
I love how she wrote “I can draw pictures of the animals!"