Wednesday, December 17, 2014

Dec. 17

The day before our Christmas party, sorry I have not posted.  I have just returned from being ill.  I run out of school to go to bed.  I thought I would update about our party tomorrow.  We made reindeer and elf ornaments for your trees, at home.  Then we traveled around the world to China.  Ask them what they have been learning about?


The students in second grade will have their party at 12 and we will wrap up by about 1:15-1:20.  I will read a story at the end before specials at 1:45.  The upper grades and younger usually have their parties at the end of the day.
Pink Christmas tree - idxg101 Photo

Tuesday, December 2, 2014

Science Night

Dec. 2 Hope to see you all at Science Night!


Today was a fantastic day of learning we managed to get through all activities.  We discussed main idea and finding the supporting details in our reading.  We practiced locating them in our article about red ants today.  Ask your child what they discovered and learned.  Then we wrote procedural texts in writing; we learned how to plan out our text by drawing the steps. Then writing out the specific details to teach someone how to do something.  Please ask them what they feel they're an expert at.  We also measured in non-standard units of measure today and discussing how to use a paper clip.  We also received our goal sticks from the forms which we returned.


Top Banana Ragan
We learned she traveled to Hershey Peninsula to the candy factor, and was one lucky girl.  She made and got to eat a candy bar.  She showed us a family picture and she was not clear was her dad was, maybe getting ready for a conference?  We learned she has a sister in fifth grade Grace and another sister too.  she attended the color run and the Army was there handing out water bottles.  She also has been to Washington DC. and her picture looks like she is holding the Washington Monument.

Monday, December 1, 2014

First day back, from Thanksgiving

Today was a fantastic day we learned a lot.  We made it through our first day back.  I hope all of you had a fabulous Thanksgiving and enjoyed your time off.  I had a blast seeing family and cooking my meal with my best friend, Mrs. Schoss. We are learning about main idea and supporting details, in reading.  We are discussing and writing procedural texts these next few weeks, so please ask them what they are writing about.  Make sure they can explain to you the difference between a narrative and procedural text?  During math we are learning about measurement and today we measured using a non-standard unit of measure inch worm ruler. Please ask them about what they did and how they measured using their inch worm.  Last, we worked on Geography in Social Studies and we discussed how this is the study of places and regions in our community, state, nation, and world.


Top Banana this week is Ragan and we did not have time to share her poster.  Stay tuned for tomorrow's update.