Tuesday, December 13, 2011

December 13, 2011

Today students came in and really showed me they know how to listen.  We were able to get through most of our activities.  In reading we made a book report about our nonfiction book we were reading.  We also had a nice visitor Mrs. Doyle who told us her daughters favorite Christmas memory, ask your child?  She also read two stories to us and we loved her visit, just like we always do.  Then we moved right into writing and we were completing our Reindeer stories.  Soon after that we head on our plane Around the World in our classrooms.  Make sure to ask your child about what they are learning.  We finished our day with Math and continued our unit on tables, you might want to check they understand this.  Finally it was MUSIC TIME!!!!!!

Thursday, December 8, 2011

December 8, 2011

WOW!!!!  What a better day!!!  Thanks for making my day class, now I feel better.  Also all I want for Christmas is a real good class...hehehe.  The students were great we did our reading and reading groups.  We compared two characters in our chapter books and took reading counts tests.  During writing they continued to write their reindeer stories.  We traveled through the United States and Italy today, tomorrow we will be visiting other countries please ask your child about their journey.  BE ON THE LOOK OUT FOR YOUR LETTER FOR THE PARTY ITEMS COMING HOME TOMORROW IN THE PURPLE FOLDERS!!!

Wednesday, December 7, 2011

December 7, 2011

Letters for the Hoilday Party went home PLEASE RETURN.  I really need them to send home, what you need to bring!!!!!

Today was a great day, we had early release.  We still had a lot of time to get some fantastic work done.  In reading, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar and we are creating a story modeled from the book.  They are calling their book The Very Hungry Reindeer.  I can not wait till you come to the party and read their stories.  I think you will enjoy them just as much a as I am.  Writing of course was spent on completing our Turkey stories and starting their books.   We then head into math first we started CGI I have decided to time them for fifteen minutes.  This is helping them try to get faster, so their homework might be easier for them. I started our lesson on tables, however then it was time to go outside for recess.  We came back in from outside and we only had a few minutes before lunch.  After this we came back to watch our science video on our new unit ROCKS!!!

Tuesday, December 6, 2011

December 6, 2011

The class had a hard time listening, and many students were playing and yelling.  Ms. Wolfean was disappointed in the class and hopes they will be able to earn their way into lunch bunch again.  We began our day with library and had a lesson about an author who will be coming to visit the students in January.  Her name is Debbie Leland, we are looking forward to her coming.  Also be on the look out for her order form for books.  We manged to get through most of all what was to be done.  In reading we continued and finished our character pamphlet. In writing we worked on our Scarecrow story or completed our Turkey stories.  We took our assessment on money and ended our day with this.  Hope to see you at SCIENCE NIGHT TONIGHT!!!

December 5, 2011

Parents holiday party note went home in their purple folder.  We had an okay day, there was a sub.  Ms. Wolfean was in the building, but had a meeting with her teachers.  We planned all day, we got a lot of ideas together for the up coming months.  Yesterday they worked on their character pamphlet during reading.  Wrote a story about how to scare a scarecrow off his/her pole.  Then they worked on money in math, and finally finished with maps skills for social studies.

Thursday, December 1, 2011

December 1, 2011

Our adventure began with the students arriving and starting their day with checking homework.  The class is excited because they are earning loads of money for their money day with special goodies to eat.  They then started their reading and discussed their chapter books with their groups.  We looked at descriptive paragraphs and why they felt they were?  We moved onto writing and they continued to publish their turkey stories.  We headed into math where we continued our unit on money.  They are bringing home another money CGI problem.  Finally our day closed down with our unit on maps.  We read about landforms in groups and completed our island map makers.