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!