December 14, 2012

Dear Parents,

I wanted to share an email sent to us by the homeroom Mom, Mrs. Pearce.  She sent it to me, please sign up for Holiday party items.  You have been invited by Janine Pearce to sign up for "Holiday Party." Please click on the link below to view the online sign up sheet. 

To sign up, go to: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0949A9AB28AB9-holiday1/997754
Today has been our last day with our flipped schedule and we will be back to normal Monday.  We did our Cafe reading and we took our money test.  We completed our fairy tale writing about the story elements.  Ask your child about the difference between a fiction book elements and fairy tales?  They should be able to communicate this to you.  We had lunch and recess, but recess was again at the end of the day.  We did travel to a new world make sure to let them explain about our new country of Israel?

Lidi shared part of her show in tell because she forgot to bring her other item.  She even left her favorite book at home.  she will bring her other items on Monday.  She brought a hallow stick she discovered at her Uncle's front yard.  She found it because she was playing with her dog in the sandbox. "When my dog shook the sand off of himself, I looked down and saw it."

December 13, 2012

YES NO LIE I FORGOT TO GIVE THEM A MATH PROBLEM!!
Another day of a strange schedule and I forgot to let Lidi share the rest of her poster, we did get to it yesterday and she shared about her horses and that she loves them.  We also learned she has Barbie dolls and likes to dress them up.  She taped one on her poster and designed a dress for her out of ribbon and even created a bow for her hair.  Maybe she will grow up and be a fashion designer or a veterinarian.  She loves animals a ton.  We did our Cafe reading and continued to discuss context clues and then we met in groups to go over our books.  We did our how to writing and all about books.  We finished reviewing for our money test and will take it tomorrow during math.  We then traveled to Germany to learn about their culture, please ask them what they learned?

December 12, 2012

Dear Parents,

I wanted to share an email sent to us by the homeroom Mom, Mrs. Pearce.  She sent it to me, please sign up for Holiday party items.  You have been invited by Janine Pearce to sign up for "Holiday Party." Please click on the link below to view the online sign up sheet. 

To sign up, go to: www.SignUpGenius.com/go/10C0949A9AB28AB9-holiday1/997754
We had another testing day and our specials was again at 10:25.  Are recess is at the end of the day, because of the 3rd 4th and 5th graders testing.  We had CAFE reading and began our day discussing context clues.  We use strategies or clues from the story to figure out a nonsense word.  Please ask them what strategies they use?  We then had writing, but we did it in the morning as we arrived because we are writing about our subjects we know a lot about, our countries we are visiting.  Please ask them what they are learning about?  We traveled to Venezuela, and they made a craft.  I hope you all are enjoying it?  I know I am awful, because we forgot, well ran out of time to do Lidi's poster.  However, after recess I squeezed in a little and we will finish tomorrow.  Please stayed tuned for more on Lidi.

December 11, 2012

Today was a strange day because there is testing in the building and our specials time has changed.  We now have specials at 10:25-11:15.  We have recess at the end of the day and lunch has not changed.  This means the children are like OH NO what happened?  They are adjusting fine, but it seems strange.  we are having Holidays around the world and will be traveling to all the teachers rooms to visit another country.  We are learning how these countries celebrate their Holidays and how they are different form America.  We made it to Italy today, ask them what they learned?  We had normal lesson in reading, writing, and math.  we learned how to use contexts clues to figure out nonsense words and we completed are fairy tale unit on story elements.  We then did our writing all about subjects by writing about our country we traveled to.  We also had our math lesson using tables to solve story problems.  They have a new problem to solve today, for CGI.  We heard from our Top Banana Lidi, she loves horses, dogs, and cats.  she thinks cats are better then dogs.  We learned she was born in Hungary and wishes she could speak it.  She also reported, "I sold my stuffed animals in a yard sale." She used to have nine chickens and we are excited to hear more from Lidi.

December 10, 2012

It is true NO SPELLING!!!!!

Lidi is our new Top Banana and we will be listening to her poster tomorrow.  We had a busy day, because we had to get all our morning and afternoon activities in before lunch.  This was because we had to begin our travels.  We are traveling around the world, and today we began in the United States of America.  We had cafe reading and discussed fairy tale story elements, and will begin our context clues lesson tomorrow.  We had writing and continued our how to topics and started discussing how to set up all about books.  We will continue to revise and edit and begin mapping are all about books.  We then began our lesson on patterns in a table, in math.

December 7, 2012

Riley, our Top Banana, shared his show and tell for his last day today on December 10.  We saw his hockey puck from the Texas Stars game.  This guy gave it to me at the game, even though he was an Aggie's fan and I am a longhorn fan he gave it to me anyway.  He past it around so everyone got the chance to feel it.  He then shared a medal he won at football, when he played for the team Dragons.  He received the medal because he had a fantastic game and made a lot of tackles.  He even said, "I caused a fumble."  What a great player he is.  The final thing he shared was his favorite book, The Adventures Super Dipper Baby.  He reported he liked it because, "It reminds me of Captain Underpants."  He shared his favorite part which was a two pictures because it looks like he is moving.  He read his favorite part, and we go back to work.  Thank you for your reign of king Riley, now for Queen Lidi. 

December 6, 2012

TOMORROW LAST DAY FOR OPERATION BLUE SANTA
HOLIDAY LETTER PLEASE SEND BACK BY DECEMBER  13

NO LIE NO MATH NO SPELLING

We had a fantastic day, they are correct no math.  It was a crazy kind of day, due to the programs we saw.  It all started with the Nutcracker and your children were in the performance.  They were shocked to be the ones in the play.  Following this they immediately went to the author visit, OH MY AWESOME!  They were both fantastic and I learned a lot form them.  Then of course we came back to the room an wrote because we had the best ideas in our heads ready to write.  I was pumped after seeing Phil Bildner and all I want to do was write.  Please stay tuned for pictures, and ask your child about their day.
I forgot top add Riley's Grandma came to visit because he was our Top Banana.  He shared his poster about his dog and he told us his name is big boy.  when asked why he reported, "It is because he is big and he is a boy."  He has a sister and brother, their names are Courtney and Nick.  He loves to eat pizza and his favorite is pepperoni.  Subway sandwich is his favorite and he said,"I like lettuce, tomato, mayo, and ham of course."  Christmas is his favorite Holiday because, "I get lots of presents", he stated.  "Summertime is my favorite season because all I do is play video games all day."
QUESTION:  I HOPE TO SEE COMMENTS:

What was your favorite part about today's activities?