HAPPY HALLOWEEN, BE SAFE!!!!
Ana shared her poster again today, reporting out that she loves bunnies and horses. We heard about how she and her family had two bunnies, but had to give them away because they chewed on the computer cords. I love doing Top Banana because you learn a lot from your child. I hope you are enjoying what they come home saying about it?
We had kind of a spooky Halloween day, we listened to a story on the computer and Ms. Wolfean scared us. We did start off our day with reading CAFE time. We had a blast communicating to the text with one another. Then we had a fantastic time listening to Mrs. Doyle discuss Nonfiction and fiction once more. She discussed the big idea in a nonfiction story and again reminded us that fiction does not just mean not real. There are other examples of what makes a fiction and nonfiction text. We wrote about Basset Hounds and how to crave a pumpkin. They were to explain the steps of how to crave a pumpkin trying to convince me to allow them to create one on Friday. Then we moved into math and graphed our snack bag.
Wednesday, October 31, 2012
Tuesday, October 30, 2012
October 30, 2012
We had a great day reading and meeting in CAFE groups. We reviewed in the library nonfiction and fiction texts. I was proud how much my students knew. They were well informed and knew the components of a nonfiction text. They could communicate with us why their books were fiction and nonfiction. Please ask them to explain why a book they are reading is fiction or nonfiction. We learned that we will be publishing our small moment stories and what we have to do to create our books. Then we did our group graphs and are working in teams to create a poster to place in the hall on a CGI type problem. We are working in groups because we can not only learn from the teach, but from our friends. Then we began our election unit in social studies. I sent home a project about our presidential election. It is not due till Thursday, but feel free to send it in tomorrow if you get done.
Monday, October 29, 2012
October 29, 2012
Only two days of October left, wow time flies when you are having fun.
Ana is our Top Banana this week, she shared her poster. We had a blast listening to why she drew a monkey on it. She did so because she is the Top Banana, but also because it is her favorite animal. I can't wait to hear from her tomorrow?
Question: What do you think about our Top Banana starting?
I had a great time teaching our Cafe strategy, we reviewed character traits. Then we discussed our books in groups and talked about how to question myself about reading. We moved into writing and discussed our spelling skill, compound words. This is when we have two words together to form one. We had a great time reviewing silent /e/. We discussed how to revise our writing sentences, in our small moments stories. We need to check for sequential order. Tomorrow we will discuss if they don't sound right how to correct them. Then we moved into math. We our going to review graphs before we take our graph test. We will be creating group graphs.
Ana is our Top Banana this week, she shared her poster. We had a blast listening to why she drew a monkey on it. She did so because she is the Top Banana, but also because it is her favorite animal. I can't wait to hear from her tomorrow?
Question: What do you think about our Top Banana starting?
I had a great time teaching our Cafe strategy, we reviewed character traits. Then we discussed our books in groups and talked about how to question myself about reading. We moved into writing and discussed our spelling skill, compound words. This is when we have two words together to form one. We had a great time reviewing silent /e/. We discussed how to revise our writing sentences, in our small moments stories. We need to check for sequential order. Tomorrow we will discuss if they don't sound right how to correct them. Then we moved into math. We our going to review graphs before we take our graph test. We will be creating group graphs.
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
October 24, 2012
RED RIBBON WEEK WEAR FAVORITE COLLEGE SHIRT
Today was early release and the teacher appreciation was fantastic. Thank you parents and PTA for putting on a fabulous luncheon. The students did a writing benchmark to see how their writing has improved since the begging of the nine weeks. Then they took a break for Mrs. Shanahan, our counselor to speak to the class. She did a bulling lesson which tomorrow the students will be bringing home a no bullying contract. Please discuss with your child what this means and what they learned? Then as they finished their writing the students went into CAFE time or completed old paper work. Have a fantastic night.
Today was early release and the teacher appreciation was fantastic. Thank you parents and PTA for putting on a fabulous luncheon. The students did a writing benchmark to see how their writing has improved since the begging of the nine weeks. Then they took a break for Mrs. Shanahan, our counselor to speak to the class. She did a bulling lesson which tomorrow the students will be bringing home a no bullying contract. Please discuss with your child what this means and what they learned? Then as they finished their writing the students went into CAFE time or completed old paper work. Have a fantastic night.
Tuesday, October 23, 2012
October 23, 2012
RED RIBBON WEEK-TOMORROW IS SLIPPERS AND CRAZY SOCKS.
I did not check homework today due to the assembly. I used that time for teaching, I will check tomorrow.
Today was a fantastic day, yet again the students did all activities. We even had an assembly about fire prevention. Ask your child what they learned? You could even have them make a plan for how to get out of the house in case of a fire? We started in CAFE and met in reading groups. We reviewed how to question each other about texts and how to found the answer in the text not our brain. We moved into writing discussing procedural text, explain to the reader how to do something. The students learned we can not just write a list, we have to introduce the topic to the reader. Describe what you are going to teach and what you find interesting about it. Then at the end of the day we practiced CGI and glued our homework into the spiral. we ended our day watching the Goldilocks and Three Bears by James Marshall. Then we discussed our next property of matter temperature.
I did not check homework today due to the assembly. I used that time for teaching, I will check tomorrow.
Today was a fantastic day, yet again the students did all activities. We even had an assembly about fire prevention. Ask your child what they learned? You could even have them make a plan for how to get out of the house in case of a fire? We started in CAFE and met in reading groups. We reviewed how to question each other about texts and how to found the answer in the text not our brain. We moved into writing discussing procedural text, explain to the reader how to do something. The students learned we can not just write a list, we have to introduce the topic to the reader. Describe what you are going to teach and what you find interesting about it. Then at the end of the day we practiced CGI and glued our homework into the spiral. we ended our day watching the Goldilocks and Three Bears by James Marshall. Then we discussed our next property of matter temperature.
Monday, October 22, 2012
October 22, 2012
It is RED RIBBION week. Wear your western gear tomorrow.We missed you guys. I had four children absent today, what happened? Zoei, Jaydin, Joey, and Ana were all out today. I missed you all big time and so did the class. Ana our first Top Banana was out, I hope you are well? Top Banana is how I do student of the week, each one of my students will get the chance to be it. Today was a day filled with loads of learning. We started our day with spelling and our new skill is dropping the /e/ and adding the ending, /ed/ or /ing/. Please make sure they study their words. We then moved into writing and discussed telling our story on our five fingers before we write. This helps them to write a complete story rather than missing the main points. Then we continued graphing data, today we graphed the classes favorite ice cream. We finished our day with discussing solid and liquids, but did not have time to complete the Venn diagram on it.
Friday, October 19, 2012
October 18, 2012
Okay, I know I did not post in time. I have been busy and just ran out of here. I stayed late on Tuesday and Thursday nights to attend health and literacy nights. I know no excuse, but I had to get plans and meet with my BOSS. I had a fun time seeing the parents and students who did come out to family nights. Having explained myself I hope you all will forgive me?
Today was a great day we did our cafe reading early because we had the OLSAT test to complete. After this we took a break and began our writing. We wrote about our favorite holiday and how we celebrate it. Maybe you can sit down with your child and discuss this with them? We are still working on number sense and graphing in math. We completed a tally chart, asked ten friends their favorite animal, and graphed our data we found. Then we categorized pictures into four properties of matter, this needs some reteach. Then last we complete CGI before we headed to art.
I have heard from most of you that the blog is an excellent way to get your students to describe more of their day, so again I am sorry.
Today was a great day we did our cafe reading early because we had the OLSAT test to complete. After this we took a break and began our writing. We wrote about our favorite holiday and how we celebrate it. Maybe you can sit down with your child and discuss this with them? We are still working on number sense and graphing in math. We completed a tally chart, asked ten friends their favorite animal, and graphed our data we found. Then we categorized pictures into four properties of matter, this needs some reteach. Then last we complete CGI before we headed to art.
I have heard from most of you that the blog is an excellent way to get your students to describe more of their day, so again I am sorry.
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