October 15, 2012

HEALTH FAIR TOMORROW NIGHT!!LITERACY NIGHT ON WEDNESDAY!!
TENT FOR TREATS OCTOBER 19
PREVIEW FOR BOOK FAIR TOMORROW 12:45
BUY BOOKS WEDNESDAY 1:15I can not believe in two short weeks that the first nine weeks will be coming to an end.  WOW!  How time flies when you are having fun.  We did a lot today, but it will not seem like it to the students.  We are in our second week of spelling and it is still a struggle to get them to see how to do it.  We spent at length trying to remember the pattern for recording the words on our list.  We will review this tomorrow, I hope next week will be better.  We had Cafe time, not as much as I hoped.  This was because of spelling.  We did our writing and worked on how we add details to our story and review what to do when we get stuck. Then we had math in the hallway, yes you heard right.  We did our next graph as a class in the hall.  We wrote questions and answered them. 

October 11, 2012

WE HAVE OUR FIRST SPELLING TEST, tomorrow!!  Today we got to SCIENCE!!!!  I am sorry to start with the end of the day, but I am excited we got to have science.  Yeah for us, we finally finished our mystery bags.  Some will surely say they did not cheat, but on some of them I am not sure how they got it right?  WOW, it was interesting to see their guess.  Ask them about their experiment and what they discovered.  We started our day with reading and CAFE discussion time.  We have been working on questioning our self when we read.  also what is text proof for finding the answer to the question we are asking.  They have been practicing this independently and in group.  Please have them model this strategy for you if they have not already?  Then we moved into writing our small moments story about our life.  We have been working on adding details and taking out details that do not fit the story.  We worked on our two step problems in math and glued our new homework question.  I hope you have just as much fun as I do solving these problems.

October 10, 2012

I am sorry it is late had a meeting and more conferences.

SPELLING HAS STARTED!!!!!!! :)

We had a busy day but due to talking we could not make it through Science.  They did receive a consequence, no experiment to do.  There were too many children to figure out who the ones doing most of the talking, this is why I let them be green.  I think it is time for another seat change, what do you think?  I hope tomorrow we can have a better day and get through two Science lessons, you think you all can handle this?

They did have a great beginning to our day we got through reading and writing with flying colors. They were starting or finishing their small moment stories.  We worked on adding and deleting details to make our writing more interesting.  We began math by comparing numbers using a greater than or less than sign.  Here are the signs for you parents who need a visual This is the > greater than sign and this < is less than sign.  We then ended our day with notes and discussing the book fair next week.

October 9, 2012

What a great four day weekend.  I am sure all of you had an excellent time relaxing while I was at work discussing with your parents.  You know you need to stop laughing because I had to work.  I had a blast today, it was my birthday and Mrs. Norris came in to make the students sing.  Thank you for brightening up my day with them serenading me.  You all are sweet, and I have the best class. 

We had a fantastic time learning, we started spelling.  They should have brought their words home with them to study.  We went to the library and we learned that we will be having a book fair next week.  We previewed the books that will be there and then checked out new books.  If your child did not bring home a chapter book, please make sure they return one and exchange it for a chapter book.  They are to bring one free choice (dessert book) and chapter (just fit book). Please discuss with them my expectations and yours.  I hope this clears up questions about what books they are bringing.  We did writing after spelling and most of them have completed one small moment.  We did math and it was hard because it has an extra step to them.  We will be doing two step problems for a bit and returning to one step again. 

October 5, 2012

WOW, WHAT A DAY!!!!!!!!  They were right on target and we had a fun filled day with an explosive amount of learning.  We began our day at the Friday assembly, and came in ready to learn.  We started in independent reading and they can read for 30 minutes.  We moved into CAFE book talks and had a CAFE group time taken away.  They got grounded, hope we can get this back soon?  Then we moved into writing and continued our small moments story.  We had Joey and Ana return to school from their vacation away from learning, and both began a small moments story about their experience.  What a great thing to have real life activities to write about.  We welcome them back, but are sad they did not include us??  We then had math and completed are activities in flying time.  We ended this weeks number sense lesson and will begin to discuss next weeks.  This will be an on going topic in math, due to the fact place value is a hard concept for them to master.  We ended our day with science mystery matter bags, ask them to explain??

OCtober 4, 2012

I have been enjoying my conferences and getting to know your parents.  I hope we can continue to work on not talking while the teachers and students are talking.  I do have to say some students are doing wonderful and are trying to improve their effort level.  However, some are following behind.  I am excited about getting to know your child they are starting to come out of their shell and have fun.  This might be the cause for them talking way too much. 

We have been continuing to use strategies to figure and read words correctly in our CAFE time.  We are practicing how to use different strategies to come up with just the right way to read words, or figure the meaning out.  During math we worked on CGI and continued to use number sense strategies to read and write numbers.  We used base ten blocks to model the number and draw them to add up two numbers.We discussed properties of matter mass, texture, flexibility, and shape.  We will be doing an experiment using our matter words.

October 3, 2012

I am sorry this is late, I have had teacher conferences and a meeting after school.  We had a full day of learning we got to most of our items on my list.  I am excited to report the students had a much better day on their talking.  I could see them working hard to improve on their abilities.  We did our CAFE time for reading and worked in groups with our teacher. We had an excellent time creating numbers using the base ten blocks and being a teacher or a student to our friend sin the class.  we watched a video about computer safety and discussed things we should and should not do.  Then we headed to PE and had an awesome time getting hot.