Practicing Our Sight Words!!!

Snowmen At Work!!

We read the story Snowmen At Work! We wrote about what job our snowman would have and where he would work.

Our Very Hungry Caterpillar!!

We painted our caterpillar and put him together!

Learning Subtraction!!!

Good job everyone!!!!!

Just a little Note!!

I am sending home a permission slip for our trip to the library on Feb 1. .. Please send it back to school as soon as possible.

Just so you know I will not be in school on Tuesday … I must attend a district mandated workshop downtown.  I will miss my kiddies.

More Highlights of the Week!!

In Reading, we continue to work on our unit about Eric Carle.  We have read so many books on Eric Carle. We are enjoying learning all about him and the different things he uses in his book such as speech bubbles, repetitive language, and connections.  We have been comparing all  the books that we read using an attribute chart. We have learned all about story elements and we have been picking them out of books. ( characters, setting, problem and solution)  Our reading groups are coming along nicely. A lot of us are decoding and reading books, some of us are still encoding but soon will be reading books. Please continue to practice decoding words at home.  Please also continue to practice our  sight words at home.

In Phonics, we are working on short vowels and listening to hear what short vowel is being used in each word.  We have also learned the sounds A-T.  Many of us already know all the sounds of the letters of the alphabet. ( Good Job practicing at home!!)

In Math, we learned how to use a calculator.  We have gone over different types of shapes such as circle, square, rectangle, trapezoid, hexagon, rhombus and triangle.  We have gone over how many sides they have and that they have corners. We have used pattern block templates to practice making the patterns.

In social studies, we continued to learn about Martin Luther King and we worked on our Scholastic News talking about rules and how they should be fair for everyone.

In science, we learned about penguins and we talked about weather.  Next week we will be learning about polar bears and then starting hibernation.


Classroom Needs:

We are in need of paper towels and baby wipes.  If anyone can donate these to the classroom, it would be greatly appreciated.

We are also in need of snack! Thank you!


Upcoming Events and Dates:


February 1: We will be taking the purple bus to the library.  Please look for the permission slip in your child's folder and sign it and send it into school as soon as possible.  Thank you very much for your help!


I sent you home the websites that you can use at home to practice reading and math.  The directions were in your child's folder.  We have a new computer lab and we will be going to the lab starting next week to work on these sites. Have fun at home using them.


We will also start using I-pads in the classroom more!!

Highlights of the Week!!!

Our Character Assembly!! Congratulations to all the students who got awards this time!!

We spent a lot of time writing this week!!
This writing was about when I get older what I want to do!
Besides writing the sentence we also illustrated it!

We learned about penguins and we wrote one fact that we learned about penguins.
We created a semantic map to list all the facts as we were reading our non fiction book on penguins.
From the map, we chose a fact we wanted to write about.   We also read about penguins in our Scholastic News.

We started writing with invented spelling.  The wrote the sentence themselves sounding out words .
They wrote all the sounds they heard in the words. 

We finished our snowmen and we wrote about how to build a snowman using the terms first, next , then and last. 

We made snowflakes to decorate our classroom. 

Highlights of the Week!!!

In reading this week, we continued to work on our unit on Eric Carle.  We learned all about Eric Carle and we watched a video showing us how he made his drawings in his books.  We worked on parts of a story. ( characters, setting, problem and solution) We read many books by Eric Carle and we made an attribute chart putting each book on the chart.  We learned about repetitive language and we picked out repetitive language in a book.  We had Dr. Bonasera come in and read The Very Hungry Caterpillar to us and after  he read the story he did a math lesson with us based on the story.  We wrote about our favorite part of the story and we made a connection to the story The Grouchy Ladybug.  We wrote about a time we were grouchy.
We continue  to work in our reading groups and we are reading books.  We are also blending sounds together to form words.  Soon you will be receiving book in the bags where the children are reading to you.

In phonics we continue to practice our sight words.  We also worked on decoding and encoding short vowel words.

In math, we learned how to use a calculator, we learned how to play Top-IT, we used a pattern block stencil, we practiced interrupted counting. We also practiced addition. We have been working on addition problems every day. We also learned a game where we roll the dice and count up the dots and record it on a spreadsheet.

In social studies, we learned about Dr. Martin Luther KIng Jr.  We talked about him and we watched a video on him.  We also read a book about him.  We colored many beautiful pictures about Dr. King and we wrote about what our dream was for the world.
We also made New Years' Resolutions.

In writing, we made marshmallow snowmen and we wrote about the steps we take in building a snowman. ( First, Next, Then and Last.)

Our Dream for the World!!!

Our New Year Resolutions!!!

Mr. Childs having fun with us during recess!

Mr. Childs building with legos. 

Our marshmallow snowmen and our how to build a snowman writing. 

Celebrating Louis' birthday!!

Louis is six years old today!!

Louis had a special visitor come to his birthday party, Mr. Childs!

We had a fun Week.. Jan 4-8

We decorated Mr. Childs' door for WInter!!

We celebrated Emily's birthday!!

We had a fun PJ Day!!

We made ice cream sundaes!!

We ate cookies!!1

We had fun!!!

Highlights of the Week!!

In Reading , we started our unit on Eric Carle.  We learned all about Eric Carle and we read three of his books that he has written.  We made an Attribute Chart.  We learned about repetitive language.  We started planning a story using a planning sheet.  These are some of the activities that we did in reading this week.  We worked in our reading groups and we started reading books. How exciting!!!

In Math, we learned how to count by tens, how to play the game top it, what a ten frame is and we worked on numbers before and after a certain number.

In Phonics/Word Work, we learned some new sight words and we worked on the letter r.

Here are some other highlights of the week:

We decorated Mr. Childs' door for Winter!!

We celebrated Emily's birthday!!

We celebrated Jonathan's birthday!!

We had a fun PJ Day!!

We made ice cream sundaes!!

We watched Cloudy With A Chance Of Meatballs!!

We ate cookies!!

We had a lot of fun!!!!!