October 31, 2013

It is true no homework, except spelling.  We will have a test, and reading homework is extra credit.  I loved our day we had a great time reading, writing, creating a graph, and having science in a creative Halloween way.  Please ask the students what they learned?  

Anthony shared his poster and we learned a lot from him today.  He loves his sister, because we were shocked he let her help him by drawing on his Top Banana poster. We love how he had his hands and feet prints on his poster.We thought that was special because it showed us a part of him.  It told us, "I thought it would be cool to have them on here."  We learned he loved the movie Smurfs because he had stickers added to his poster.  We were surprised he did not own the movie because he knew a lot about the Smurfs.  We learned Jan Brett is his favorite author he reported, "I just love how she adds all those details around her stories."  I can not wait to see his show-n-tell tomorrow. 

October 30

Had a fantastic early release, and learned a lot in my workshop. The most important is to keep children active because my workshop was not. We continued our money unit and are working on ways to correctly write and make amounts.

Oct. 29

I am updating on my cell, couldn't add math problem sorry parents. Kona ice was great not many students remembered it was today. It will usually happen before early release because teachers have workshops to go to on early release days. 

Also Anthony shared his ouster and we enjoyed learning he loves soccer. "I love to run and kick the ball," he told us.  He decided to add a banana to the poster because he is top banana. Great response and idea to add, shows his personality. I love doing this for my class weekly interesting way for our class to get to know one another. 

Tuesday was like all Tuesdays busy and full of new teaching. We learned about reading counts and hoe they can take tests on the computer to build comprehension. They will bring these books home from the library and read them, or you read. Then they come to class and take the tests. I modeled this today. Then we discussed how to read nonfiction texts and using our text to help solve unfamiliar words. During math we did our CGI money math problem and discussed different ways to make an amount. Please help by having them count money and creating as many ways to make one amount as many ways as they can, have a great night. 

October 25, 2013

You could say we had a great day, but I forget to take the students to lunch on time and passing out their individual pictures.  I will make sure to have the pictures to you on Monday.

Yessenia's last day was today and she shared her show-n-tell and book.  We learned even more from her and it was interesting hearing all about her.  She showed us a monkey her Mom got for her from I-Hop.  She does not have a name for it yet, so we gave her ideas like Hoppy, Jumpers, Cuddles, and I-Hop.  She thinks Cuddles might be the best one.  We also know she was lucky and go ta pillow at Christmas of a monkey with a bow on his head.  The only sad thing was that her monkey from her Mom was chewed up by their dog and her Aunt fixed it.  We were happy to see him in one piece with his neck attached.  I am looking forward to Anthony sharing next week.

Today we had a productive day we did reading and writing and had so much fun I never wanted to go to lunch.  We wrote about spooky events that happened to us and had a great time sharing our old stories with the class by the fireplace.  We then continued our nonfiction lesson in reading and asking questions of our self.  Then in math we reviewed pictographs.  The best part was after lunch we had Ms. Mernell read to us in Science, Goldilocks and the Three Bears.  We all got in groups to become piggies and build houses, for our experiment on Monday.  Please ask them about their day?

October 24, 2013

Yessenia was sharing her poster and we learned a lot about her.  She has four brothers and sisters and loves them very much.  Her nickname is Cha-Cha and asked me to call her by her real name.  I do and she giggled at the fact I know her nickname.  We learned she went on a field trip to the park.   She said,"It had loads of fun things there."  Also she is about to turn eight, on November 28, 2013. Oh yes and, she shared, "One of my brothers will be nine."  I can not tell you today all the funny things my students say.  I giggle all day at some of the replies I get to questions.  

Alexis after PE this morning stated, "I am as wet as a wet dog."  I am telling you I love my class.  We are busy working on questions and inference with Nonfiction texts.  We have been learning about Patricia Polacco, who is an author and wrote her own autobiography.  Please ask them what they know about her?  During writing the students are learning to write small moments in their life.  At this time of year they want to write about spooky events and we have been studying about what truly is a spooky story?  We have been reading authors spooky stories and learning to write our stories modeled like the authors we are listening to. We are continuing with graphing and being our unit in money soon.  We are also going to finish up matter in science.

October 23, 2013

WOW!, last night was amazing I loved seeing some of you there.  Thank you for your support and attending the family reading fun night.

We are to wear college shirts tomorrow to support Red Ribbon week, sad to see the PJ's go away.  I loved them, it was a comfy day.

Yessenia is doing an excellent job as my class Top Banana.  We are learning she can be the leader and show her fun side to the class.  I loved hearing her try to get the class to follow her directions.  It is amazing to let the students walk in my shoes for a week and run things a little.  They finally get to see that my job is not easy and sometimes they feel sorry for me.

They are continuing to learn about questions and try to give me deeper questions not flat.  They brought home books with a bookmark, we call it our tool kit.  This should help guide you for things they should be looking for and discussing with you.  Please have them pull it out, and show you how to explain those items in their reading.  We are finishing up graphs and will be moving towards money.

October 22, 2013

Reading night tonight!! Wear slippers and pjs, tomorrow!! 

We had a great day discussing nonfiction text questions. We are learning about bar graphs now!! 

October 21

No spelling this week literacy night Tuesday reason why!! 

Yessenia is our Top Banana and she shared about her guitar being pink, have to love that? I do! She reported it was a Christmas gift and she loves to play. She loves cookies it is her favorite dessert.  I hope she brings her guitar for show-n-tell?  

I will be giving a sight word test. They do not need to study the test will give me data to continue working with your child. We had a productive day. We are working on inferencing using nonfiction texts. We are moving to bar graphs and continue to review pictographs. We will be taking our quick check test on pictographs tomorrow. We are finishing up our science unit on properties of matter. 

October 17, 2013

We learned a lot about Tsa'na today he shared his poster.  It was amazing to see him as a baby.  We loved his dog and he was an adorable little thing.  We all giggled when we saw the dog in the chair, but were more impressed that the chair was made by Dad.  I think there were more AHHHs, when he told us he lived in Pennsylvania.  I think one child yelled, "Where is that?"  I will have to get out the map and show everyone. I know they all wanted to know his favorite gift that he received on Christmas from the picture that was posted on the poster.  We did ask and he reported, "It was a Power wheel thingy you know an electric car deal you ride." I have to tell you I love the way children speak.  We have had a lot of absent students for many reasons, please try to keep me posted.  I miss the monkeys when they are out.

October 16, 2013

!!NO SPELLING!!

Ms. Wolfean decided to not give spelling because it was a short week.

We had another productive day and we got through most of our learning.  We need to get back on Science, therefore, we will need to spend time catching up.  We finished our OLSAT testing today and boy this is GREAT!!  I love having all my time to teach.  We learned Ms. Wolfean taught us that pictograph should not have numbers on them, and we laughed because she learned something new.  Our class graphed our eyes and we will be moving towards bar graphs soon.  We are working on questioning while reading fiction stories.

October 15

Tsa'na is our new Top Banana and I am loving how helpful he is being.  I will have to give him an extra day due to the fact he has missed his Monday.  I bet if I asked he would say he loved having the holiday.  We are having fun discussing questions before, during, and after reading in our fiction stories.  We will continue to discuss this tomorrow and also write them down.  We are still writing small moments and revising our writing.  We headed to the library and learned we will have a book fair next week.  We then cam back to math and had a blast learning about graphing.

We preview books on MONDAY AT 9:15 and we get to buy our books on WEDNESDAY at 9:15.

October 9

Great day yesterday we had fun doing our reading going over questioning thoughts floating in my head while reading. We are still discussing small moments in writing and focusing our writing. During math we are still working on number sense and finding patterns in the hundreds chart. Make sure they know counting by 2, 3, 4, 5,...etc. we are enjoying Science and finished with matter moving to weathering soon. Take care have a fatantic day!!

October 4

Hope everyone has a fantastic weekend, be safe. Kelly had a great last day for top banana and I forgot to choose one. Man I think I might be losing my mind. 

October 3, 2013

WOW, I did my homework tonight.  I am lucky, I get to have my recess.  I am excited to report that Kelly made me hungry at the end of the day because she had a cookie on her poster.  She likes the inside and outside of them the best.  I wonder does this means she does not like the whole thing?  She also has four sisters and one brother, oh boy that's a lot of girls.  Is this what you were thinking?

We learned a lot about matter today, please ask them what they are learning about.  Also we are still working on questions during reading and making predictions along the way.  This will help build our comprehension.  Please have them show you this while they do their twenty minutes of reading.  We are still working on number sense in math and I hope their CGI was easy for them?  have a fantastic evening. 

October 1-2

I have to start off by say I am bad I need study hall, I forgot to do my homework. I did not update the blog. However, I have stayed at school every night till 7 holding conferences with your parents. I am loving getting to know your parents, and boy they are doing better than me.

Kelly is a super top banana she reported we have learning about even and odd numbers. Also asking questions and making predictions in our books. I love kids words to describe their learning. She reported about her poster again and told us she made her glitter thing in first grade and had fun in Ms. Drews class last year. Her favorite part of her year in first was making a home run. She says that's staying green all day. She enjoys learning, hope all my students continue to love learning this year??