November 30, 2011

This week has been a fantastic work week, we have accomplished a lot. Today was another busy day, we made through most of my plans.  Reading was filled with children going to the library, working on main idea, and buddy reading with friends.  Every group met with me to discuss their chapter books, ask them what is happening in their story?  During writing all I could hear was pencils moving and children writing.  They were publishing their turkey stories.  You need to drop by and read their work.  I am proud of all their stories, they amaze me.  In math they worked on a new CGI problem, which involved money.  They took one home for you too, they should know what to do?  If they struggle with this then you know they are having difficulty in class.  Finally we ended with Social Studies and learning about latitude and longitude lines.  They should know how to locate the equator and prime meridian?

November 29, 2011

Today was another fun filled day of learning, we made it through everything. Today we started off with reading and continued learning how to use our main idea to help recall details in our chapter books.  Then we had our visitor Mrs. Doyle come share another special book with our class.  She lead a discussion on sensory writing threw poetry.  This tied perfectly to what Ms. Wolfan taught us in writing, our sensory writing chart.  We practiced that strategy in our writing notebooks and will begin drafting our compositions.  Then we moved into math and completed our flip book on how to make a dollar.  Have the students explain all the ways to make a dollar?  Finally we closed down our day with the start of our island maker activity.

November 28, 2011

I hope everyone had a safe and wonderful vacation.  Thanksgiving is a special time to relax and have a fantastic time with your family.  Ms. Wolfean had a great time spending her vacation with family and friends.  Our day was filled with loads of learning. We returned back to school full of energy, however they did remember their manners.  I am proud of how hard they are working.  We began our money unit in Math, and created amounts using dollars and cents.  We continued with our map unit in Social Studies and they seem to be enjoying the fact they will get to create their own maps.  In reading we have begun our unit on main idea and how stopping after two to three paragraphs helps us recall details from the story.  Please ask them to model this for you.  We are continuing on with writing and have begun our personal narratives writing about real or imaginary events.  Overall the count day to our Holiday vacation is off to a great beginning.

11/11/11

I posted the date this way because today was the eleventh day, of the eleventh month, and in the twenty eleventh year.  This was fascinating to my students, all day all I heard was how cool it was.  Reggie's last day was awesome we had an assembly for the veterans and it was special to see the students salute the men and woman of the armed forces.  Reggie shared his show in tell and we learned he won a trophy for playing basketball.  He brought his stuffed dog which he sleeps with and plays with.  He was a cuddly little critter.  He shared his favorite book which was Phineas and Ferb Across the Second Dimension by Ellie O'Ryan.  He will get to finish his questions from the class on Monday due to the fact that I forgot, well we ran out of time.  Today we had writing and all the students are finished with the class book.  They all are starting their magazine article for their how to papers.  Then we moved onto math and discussed three digit numbers to 999.  We were learning how to tell what comes before and after the numbers.  After that we watched our science video and ended Reggie's day with him sharing.  Reggie was an excellent Top Banana and we are sad to have to say good-bye, but we must.  It is time to look forward to Crisanta.

November 10,2011

ROARRRR, wow today was fantastic due to behavior in the lunchroom.  My class had a hard time following directions I hope they are better tomorrow.  Today Reggie shared his poster and reported his favorite fruit was grapes.  He also told us about his sister's Jasmine, Kenisha, and Jenna.  He likes to play video games and play outside.  He enjoys playing football and soccer.  His favorite team for football is the Stealers and he does not have a favorite soccer team.  He has played on a football team called the Bears and can not remember the position he played.  He loves these sports because you have to run and that is something he enjoys doing.  He has played soccer, baseball, basketball, and football.  Today we completed our class book and voted on our cover.  Mattie was the winner and she will be drawing it tomorrow.  PLEASE HAVE ALL MONEY TOMORROW!!  We made a human number line and did our since.  We even made our inferences in reading. 

November 8, 2011

Today was a busy day we were learning so much we forgot to do Reggie's poster.  He stated, "It is OK Ms. Wolfean we can do it tomorrow." He was kind to be fine with this.  I always feel terrible when I can't get to their poster.  However, it just means we are either learning or too many problems came up.  Today their was tons of learning.  We had Mrs. Doyle come in and read to the class.  Reggie loved her story because it did not have words, it was a picture book without words.  The title was the Lion and the Mouse by, Jerry Pinkney.  Then we watched a video to see if our inferences from the pictures were correct.  Reggie thought Mrs. Doyle visit was an excellent treat for the class.  We continued our day doing our writing, our last two students finished our class book.  We can't wait to vote on the cover tomorrow.  We did science first, Ms. Wolfean tricked us because usually we do Math then science.  We hunted for treasure today using magnets.  Finally our day was complete with math base ten blocks and CGI.

November 7, 2011

Today Reggie introduced himself to the class.  He was a great Top Banana and loved being the line leader.  His favorite food is pizza and he likes it because it is good.  He shared pictures of his cousins and told us, "Ty, is his favorite cousin."  Reggie really enjoys watching TV because his favorite channels are Nickelodeon, Disney, ESPN, and Cartoon Network.  He then latter reported he loves all TV shows for kids.  He also shared he loves to spend time with his Mom and Dad.  We had a busy day we did our spelling and learned about compound words.  It was interesting because not all words will be put together, as Reggie noticed.We read our chapter books for groups and then moved on to writing.  We are writing our carving pumpkin texts into a published magazine article. I can not wait till they are finished, so we can hang them in the hall.  We learned a new math game using base ten blocks.  We closed our day with our magnet science lesson.

November 4, 2011

Today was Gracyn's last day as Top Banana she did a marvelous job.  She shared her poster and let us hear about her favorite toys.  She loves pet shops like most of my girls in the class.  She reported that the squirrel was the first one created.  She enjoys playing with glow sticks, she is not sure why.  Her show in tell today was her favorite book Dork Dairies and she stated, " I loved this book because it suits me.  Also when I act dorky it feels good to read about a story of someone else who has been dorky"  I laughed at her comment and thought it was awesome that Gracyn can admit to her dorkness like I do sometimes.  Anyone else in the class feel this way?  She brought in her rabbit (stuffed)  that she received at her Grandmas She has yet to give it a name, maybe one of you can comment on here and give her a name?  She also shared a sticker she can't wait to hang in her new room of her new house.  Today was a busy day we finished projects and continued writing our crave a pumpkin how to books and we are waiting on three people to finish our book.  We did math and reading, but had to skip science to present our creal box projects.  I am impressed with their creations.  Thanks for helping them out parents.  They turned out cute, hope you can stop by to take a look?  Reggie is the new Top Banana!

November 3, 2011

We had a fun filled day with tons of learning.  We had a classroom visitor who was an excellent role model for the students in regards to reading.  She stayed in her sit and was focused till we had to go to Assembly.  Mrs. Erickson joined us and did her personal best.  Thank you for being a great student today.  Ethan M. in Mrs. Buckles class has been a great assistant to Ms. Wolfean.  He has been in our class guiding the students and helping them become successful.  He broke his arm and due to him not being able to attend specials he has been in my room.  Thank you Ethan, my class is loving it!  Today was filled with lots of writing and trying to finish our class books.  We also did science using a magnet and a compass ask your child what they observed?  We made sure there was time for our CGI math problem.

November 2, 2011

Today Gracyn shared her poster and she reported she loves to go on vacation with her family.  She enjoys going to see her Grandma who still lives in the same place and house.  Her Grandma even bought her a scarf and hat which she still wears.  We all hope to see Gracyn in it soon.  Her favorite thing to do with her family is going to the park and she has a fantastic time there.  Her Mom takes her there and she enjoys her time with Mom. Gracyn loves to listen to her MP3 because she likes to rock out to the songs.  Today we had a great day filled with lots of activities.  They took a treat bag home and Gracyn thought it was cool I gave it to them.  They also took a pumpkin home to do an experiment with you.  Please have them try it on you, they thought it was interesting what they discovered.  We did our math we discussed time and how long it takes to complete things in our everyday life.  We even had time to do a second experiment with jars.  Gracyn enjoyed the jar lesson and thought it was interesting which one made the highest pitch.  Reading and writing was covered and the students received their second chapter book for groups. We are almost finished with our published book.  If you want to purchase one please return the envelope and the money.

November 1, 2011

Ms. Wolfean did not forget to let Gracyn share we did it twice. She sure has a lot of foods she loves.  We learned pizza and apple pie are two of her favorites.  She loves to cook with others in her family and has even made a meal for her Mom with Dads help.  She loves to be with her family her cousins are very close and loves to go swimming with them.  Gracyn did inform us that she is allowed to swim all over the pool, due to the fact she is really great at swimming.  She loves to travel to their hometowns to visit them.  Adian is the closest cousin, and she could not decide who was her favorite family member because they are all awesome.  Today was another busy day we went to the library and had Mrs. Doyle come to read.  Mrs. Doyle read a nonfiction text and discussed facts and opinion.We did our CGI math problem and worked on our science experiment.  Students need to make sure they are working on their CREAL PROJECT due NOVEMBER 4.

October 31, 2011

Today was a busy day and boy were the kids hyper!!  They were excited to go trick or treat and this is all I heard from them.  We did have learning, even though it was tough.  we listen to a scary book during reading and Ms. Wolfean scared us.  Gracyn was excited to share her poster, but by the time I looked up it was time to go home.  We made pumpkins in math to match qualities of our self.  We finished Science lesson and then we worked on finishing our class books.  Have a safe Halloween and make sure to make it happy!!