Okay, okay, I know I am awful. I have been horrible about updating. I am restarting over from now and I will try to not forget to post the blog.
Today we had a new top banana, Nicholas and Courtney was awesome.
Since I forgot to post on the blog I wanted to inform you about what Courtney shared with us. Courtney describe her bike last week and stated, "It is fun and pink!" This was why she liked her bike, when asked by another student. She also told us she is the middle child because she has an older sister and a younger sister. "They both attend Gaitts Elementary, and I love them" she replied when someone asked about them. She reported she loves all her dogs and Daisy is her favorite right now. She loves Christmas because it is her favorite and "I get presents!" She has a hard time sharing because she is shy and does not like to talk in front of the class. I think she found her voice this week.
Today was a great day filled with lots of learning, we completed most of our tasks. We started in Cafe reading and discussed connections and how to take notes on them while reading. Then we were luck and headed to the library. We know we have a new reading program for Six Flags. We also learned how to take reading tests on the computer using our library books. This will help them raise their comprehension in reading. They need to read their library books with a sticker on the binding. These are the books they use. Please ask them where is there book? 
Here is a picture of the sticker. Also we did a new kind of CGI it will involve subtracting. Please make sure they are explaining how they solve not just what strategy. We them finished our day with continuing to study all about our natural resources.
I am busy and just remembered I need to continue to post our day. I promise I put myself in time out and made sure I did have study hall.
Courtney is our new Top Banana she discussed about how one of her four dogs just had a puppy. The new addition to their family is Daisy, she fits into your palm. Then she shared she has two sisters and they both attend Gattis. Courtney is the middle child, and is shy. I am very proud of the fact she shared today. Sage forgot his show in tell and we will allow him to do that as soon as he remembers!!
Now for the past two days I have been teaching in reading cafe strategies to help build comprehension. We have been working on summary. We have been looking for the who, when, where, why, did what and to make a complete summary we must add the events to our story. There are normally five events to add. We are record our findings and practicing how to locate these things in our chapter books and small readers. We have working on fractions again this work. The skill which is hard for them is comparing fractions as part of the group. For example if there are 8 ladybugs color 1/4 of them? You might want to work on this at home. We will be completing our rock unit and are moving into natural resources unit. The students have been loving the study of Jan Brett and are enjoying the activities to build from. Ask them about her books and please visit her web site.
I love blogging everyday it helps me reflect how I can make the day better for the students. Please ask them tomorrow what new behavior incentive I have started? I hope you all find it fantastic and the students get excited.
We shared Sage's poster, he is our new Top Banana. He shared about how he loves to play soccer and has been playing for many years. I want to hear more about his trips he has been on because today he reported he has been to California and San Diego. What a lucky child, he told us he loved Lego Land. I look forward to hearing more from him tomorrow.
Today we started off with Reading Cafe and completed that task in flying colors. We then visited Mrs. Wallingford and she shared an excellent book. You should ask your child to take you to see and hear it? Yes, it is on the Library Website, please let me know if you do? We then came back for a small amount of writing, but did not have much time because we had to have recess. Then we moved into math and continued to discuss fractions, and had a new CGI math problem. After lunch we completed math CAFE time and had a great time working with friends in our groups. We finished up our day with science and began our lesson on rocks, stayed tuned for tomorrow's update.
Man what a day, we had a great time getting back in touch with one another. We had a fantastic time cleaning out our desk drawers, and changing seats. We are now in a new year with a new attitude and a fresh start. You might have seen a lot of papers come home, I sent all papers done or not home. I decided lets start all over and begin on new feet. I really missed all my little monkeys and wished we could have spent more time talking and sharing. We will tomorrow because I forgot letting those who did their reindeer journals a chance to read them. We will for sure read them and share their vacation time with me. We started our day reviewing CAFE reading time and getting back in to reading mode. Then we met with our friends about our books. We also listened to Ms. Wolfean read The Gingerbread Baby by: Jan Brett. She is our new author study, we are investigating her books to help us gain reading strategies. We are working on comprehension. We then moved on to writing and continued from where we left off working on our all about books. Then we moved on to math and began our unit on fractions. We discussed equal parts, whole, and equal share. Please ask them what this means? Then we were to share about Sage, we ran out of time. We will do this tomorrow twice to make up for my memory lose and lack of time. Please forgive me Sage?
Joey reported he played baseball, on a team called the Royals. He shared about his family and he said," The annoying one is my sister." He likes to watch TV and his show that he enjoys watching is the Superheroes Squad. He likes Iran man the best on the show. He loves to draw and he loves it because he likes to hang the collections of his drawings on the wall. He likes school because he loves to read. We enjoyed hearing all about Joey today.
We will Have our class party at 12:30-1:45, then they will go to specials. We had a normal day today. We had reading cafe time. we created reindeer journals to bring home over the holidays to practice our writing. Then we started math and worked on number sense. We worked on expanded notation and how to work with numbers in the hundreds. We discovered it is like counting by ones but they are just bigger then Ms. Wolfean Claus gave us extra recess for being nice!!
Joey did report out about playing baseball and getting a triple hit. He received a trophy for his derby car race. He even made the car to race it from scratch. He has fun enjoying his favorite toy Babe blades. He likes to play them and watch them battle. He has a dog and his name Leia, she is a chocolate lab. "I have always wanted one,"he told us. Her name came from the Star Wars Princess Leia. Tacos is his favorite food because they are, 'Yummy!
A parent emailed me today asking about the class book we created. If you would like to purchase one because you thought they would receive a free one. The form asked for a code found on the back of the book. Here is the code, 1492730 thank you Mrs. Fica for bringing it to my attention. I love trying to stay on top of things, but sometimes I just get busy. Today was back to normal schedule as usually, but we had Holiday around the world again. They only travel at the end of the day after all learning work was completed. We had Reading cafe and sorted words by their suffixes and prefixes. Then we learned in math number sense using hundreds and completed a money test.
Joey is our new Top Banana, and we saw the end of Lidi's reign. We did not have time to hear from Joey because I forgot about our world travels. I will move sharing poster this week to after lunch, and we will double up tomorrow to make up for today.
