Time for the Olympics

I'm so excited to watch the Olympics! I plan to bring all the fun to my classroom as we learn all about the Winter Games. Figure skating is my absolute favorite sport to watch during the Olympics. I thought it would be fun to learn about some of the athletes competing and write about them. I saved all the pages to make an Olympic athlete biography book.

We learned all about Olympic athlete qualities and used the traits we brainstormed to fill in this cute list poem. These poems in our poetry journals turned out so cute!

We discussed the summer games and the winter games and talked about how they are the same and how they are different. We brainstormed on post it notes and then added the post it notes to the venn diagram.

 We went to the library and checked out all kinds of Olympic books to help us with our Olympic study. We have been having so much fun learning about the Olympics.

All of the activities above are in my winter games unit on TPT. Click the picture below to check out the unit. Have fun learning all about the Olympics!

hello spring

A lot has been happening over here. We have been busy and in need of a much deserved spring break. Here is a glimpse at some of the things we have been working on. In Texas it's rodeo time so we spent some time learning about cowboys and Texas.

Making text to text connections with Armadilly Chili and The Little Red Hen 

We made chili pepper patterns. I love this activity I got from April Larremore over at chalk talk.

We made this little cowboy craft followed up by the writing prompt, Every cowboy needs  . . . boots. The kids painted their boots using water colors.

We read Armadillo Rodeo and talked about the story elements.

In February we had fun learning about the Winter Games. We compared the summer games to the winter games.

Then we graphed which Olympic sport is your favorite and talked about the data. I passed out white boards and let the kids write along with me.

For writer's workshop we learned what a biography is and started writing Olympic athlete biographies. My kids loved writing about Gracie Gold.

We made a circle map of winter Olympic sports.

We brainstormed words that describe Olympians. We used this circle map to help write Olympian list poems.

Olympian list poem.

When we come back from spring break we are going to continue learning about weather and landforms.

This reader can be found in my landforms unit.

Winter Olympics

The Olympics start tomorrow! Will you be discussing the Olympic Games in your classroom? We are going to spend all next week on the Olympics. My kids are so excited to start all the fun! I'll be back with lots of pictures from the week. Here is a little preview of what we will be doing.

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Get the whole unit here!

 

welcome to summer!

I am on summer vacation over here. The school year went by so fast and yet so slow. August feels like forever ago. I miss seeing my sweet kindergarten babies. I loved being their second mommy during the day. I'm so proud of all they accomplished.

Heck writing biographies about Olympic athletes! Here is the published book.

Here is another writing activity that we did with our Olympic unit. They brainstormed what it would be like to be an Olympic athlete.

We compared the summer games to the winter games

We had lots of books to help us with this activity.

We made Olympic torches out of toilet paper rolls.

We made class shirts with their names on the back.

You can find all the activities above in my Olympic Games unit. I'll be updating the unit soon to include the torch craft.

summer olympics

This is the last weekend before school lets out. Only three day left!

We are working on my Olympic unit until school is out.

We made a bubble map of adjectives that describe Olympic athletes. Then we used the bubble map to make Olympian list poems.

Olympian list poems

We made a class book about Olympic athletes using the bubble map of Olympian adjectives. We've enjoyed reading this book.

I am so proud of the little artists my students have become!

"Olympic athletes are flexible."

"Olympic athletes are balanced."

 Then we started talking about biographies. We've been reading lots of biographies about famous Olympic athletes. We read a biography on Michael Phelps and Mia Hamm.

We started writing our own biographies about Michael Phelps.

We made swimmers, soccer players, and gymnasts.

We've been reading a ton on all the different Olympic sports.

Olympic math booklet

Building sentences in the pocket chart

We wrote biographies about Mia Hamm and made a soccer player.

We put Olympic words in ABC order

Practicing our sight words

Check out my whole Olympic unit on Teachers Pay Teachers here.