Thursday

We had a great day trying to get all activities completed.  We discussed in Reading our connections to Arthur Meets the President.  There are four different types of connections we can make, please ask them what they are?  We then began to revise and edit our writing and I modeled the strategies.  We had lunch and indoor recess, the students enjoyed dancing to the videos. Ms. Wolfean read the chapter book The Year of Billy Miller to us and we giggled.  Then during math Ms. Wolfean tricked us with a chart to fill in the number, word form, standard form, and picture for a number given.  I just realized my directions should be better. I will be doing it again withe them on another day for those who had a tough time.  We had a fantastic day and the children are learning to understand to think for themselves.

Wednesday

We had a wonderful day today, we managed to get to all subjects we needed to.  However, we are a little behind on our lessons.  This is not a problem we just need to maintain our working and remember to talk less.  They are getting better and I am delighted to report they earned another letter towards their party.  They do not know this, so I will be able to see which children read the blog.  I hope in the morning they will greet me and let me know.  We had a great reading activity we did a character sketch and reported about the character we read during DEAR time.  Please ask them to describe their character?  Then we continued to write our stories during writing workshop.  Soon after we played a math game, have them discuss the game with you?  You might even have them explain directions and how it helps us count faster.  We were excited because today was library day, please make sure they have a just fit book?

Heading to my meeting, have a fantastic evening.

Parent night😳

We had a great turn out for parent night, it is always great to have about half. Thank you to those who came and for those that could not make it just know all paperwork will go home tomorrow. 

Today was excellent it was the best Monday I think they will be amazed to see something change in the room. I loved getting to all subjects and practice stations today. The children are excited and eager to get these started, I am too. Today's math lesson standard, expanded form, and word form, for a number was difficult for some. Please review these with your child, if they have trouble them you know they did in class. Have a fantastic night and know we are only as good as we can be.  

PTA reminders

watchdog program is kicking off September 23 at 6:30 

Read-a-thin FUNDRAISER IF EVERY KID GIVEA 10 dollars that will give us 8,000 dollars this would really give all grades the ability to have some amazing programs!!

Fast Friday

READ-A-THON has started it is our fund raiser. 

Please let 

me know if you do not have a packet.

Oh boy, finally Ms. Wolfean allowed us to share our show-n-tell.  "I can't believe there was not another lesson", one student reported.  They stood in the class, gave a speech, and shared.  We did dance to Kash's rabbit, and had our brain break.  We wrote invitations to Parent Night.  Monday, September 15, at 6:15, in the cafeteria.  I am excited to see all parents and yes no children.  This is a night for you and I, ha-ha you have home work parents.  The students are happy to let you in on the secret that Monday's night homework is you come to my class. We had a awesome time in reading discuss how to look up information in books we clearly do not understand.  We traveled through Google Earth to locate Mount Rushmore because our read aloud The Year of Billy Miller by Kevin Henkes mentioned this place.  Then we continued our day with writing about our small moments and began to try to complete the stories we have in our writing workshop folder.  During math we completed our snack graphing activity and wrapped up discussing number sense.  Have a fabulous weekend students and see you on Monday.

From the WatchDOGS team:

Dads, are you looking for an easy, gratifying way to get involved and make difference? The Gattis Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program is ramping up for this year, and will host a kick-off pizza party on Tuesday, September 23, at 6:30 PM in the cafeteria. Background, how the program works, volunteer opportunities, and more will be covered. Bring your kids, your ideas, and your questions and help make our program a success! To RSVP for this event, contact Sarah and Michael at: gattis.watchdogs@gmail.com.

Thursday

From the WatchDOGS team:

Dads, are you looking for an easy, gratifying way to get involved and make difference? The Gattis Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program is ramping up for this year, and will host a kick-off pizza party on Tuesday, September 23, at 6:30 PM in the cafeteria. Background, how the program works, volunteer opportunities, and more will be covered. Bring your kids, your ideas, and your questions and help make our program a success! To RSVP for this event, contact Sarah and Michael at: gattis.watchdogs@gmail.com.

Today we had a great day and we had a lot of fun learning.  We got to share our show-n-tell, but not really because Ms. Wolfean taught us an important lesson.  She taught us what it is like to be the teacher and Kimberly(me) the student be them.  We discussed being a good listener and what it means to actively listen.  Ms. Wolfean did get wild and boy can she act.  I love how child can describe in exact words what they think.  I loved hearing one in the hall also discussing with a friend, in another class, you should have seen what she did today.  She turned into a hilarious crazy student.  She was very naughty while we tried to talk in her hot seat.  She let us be her, can you believe it we were Ms. Wolfean.  The other student, I wish my teacher did that.  The hot seat is my teacher comfy chair, that's for you the parent.  I hope they are coming home explaining the lessons they are doing with their show-n-tell.  Yes, they may bring them again.  We did get to reading which we discussed sequence of events and a just fit book.  We then wrote and had a snack bag graphing activity.  I hope each of you students and teachers have a terrific Thursday night, please read with your child or have them read silently too.

Wonderful Wednesday

Oh boy, today was a fantastic wonderful day.  Today was our library day and if they did not bring their books I will send them tomorrow for check out.  We managed to make it through all subjects, but they didn't really think Math was all that great.  We had a pretest, I just wanted to see what your children remembered about numbers form last year.  This was stressful, I even took them to their happy place and spoke to them.  It still caused some to really think they were not successful.  I ask you to please take sometime to discuss with them, that sometimes we will know things and sometimes we need to learn them.  However, reading and writing went smoother.  They are getting the routines and I think their independent skills are finally kicking in. We had a visitor today Mr. Thompson and boy he really got to see what my job is like.  We loved having him here and look forward to more dads.   I had a parent ask for me to place my email on my ABOUT THE TEACHER page, I did.

From the WatchDOGS team:

Dads, are you looking for an easy, gratifying way to get involved and make difference? The Gattis Watch D.O.G.S. (Dads of Great Students) program is ramping up for this year, and will host a kick-off pizza party on Tuesday, September 23, at 6:30 PM in the cafeteria. Background, how the program works, volunteer opportunities, and more will be covered. Bring your kids, your ideas, and your questions and help make our program a success! To RSVP for this event, contact Sarah and Michael at: gattis.watchdogs@gmail.com.

We have not shared our show-n-tell yet, due to the fact I am teaching lesson along with them everyday.  With that being said, YES they bring them again.  We read a story about Lilly on Monday and about her brother on Tuesday the show-n-tell goes with our stories.  Please have them share the lessons we did for Tuesday and Wednesday.  They are waiting for the lesson on show-n-tell.  I am teaching them that sometimes we have to wait for the best gift of all.

Marvelous Monday

Today was a great day we held our class meeting about reporting behaviors and tattling behaviors.  We discussed the importance about communicating with the person you have a problem with before letting the teacher know.  We want to try to work it out with words, before reporting.  If problem continues you must report the behavior right away.  Please discuss with them the difference?

We begin our day with reading and we read Lilly's Purple Plastic Purse, they are to bring their favorite item to school to share with the class.  We are doing a show-n-tell.  Then we recorded our thoughts on our story elements chart.  We wrote in writer's workshop on developing stories of our on to be published and shared with the class.  Then we moved around outside for some exercise.  After returning to class we continued with our graph lesson and discussed the importance of lining up the objects and numbers so readers can read our graphs.  Finally our day closed with celebrations we have as citizens and tomorrow we will discuss world symbols and celebrations.

READ-A-THON has started it is our fund raiser, please let me know if you do not have a packet.

TOMORROW:  You don't want to cook, then go to CHILI'S  we get 15% back to school!! You must print this flyer!You can find it on the Gattis home page