Wednesday

Today we:

5.  Got to bring home our medallions from art.  A few people have to wait until next time because their medallion wasn't ready yet.

Marvelous Medallions !

4.  Learned about weighing things and heavier and lighter in math.

3.  Learned more about goods, services and income.  We also talked about spending and saving money.

2.  Started reading books by Doreen Cronin.  We will be reading books by her this month. 

1.  Practiced Literacy Workshop time...boy are we getting good!

Picture day tomorrow!  : )

Fun Friday!

Today was full of surprises!

5.   We had gym and did the Rainbow Run. 

4.  We celebrated A.'s birthday.

3.  We continued to work on vocabulary for our study of Wants and Needs. 

2.  In Work on Writing time we wrote notes and compliments to special people.

1.  In math, we worked on doubles +1 and doubles +2 strategies.  We also cut out Fact Triangles.

Homework:  Math page, reading and play outside.  : )

Have a great weekend!

High Five for Wednesday!

We have been so busy this week learning more routines and procedures.  This week we have learned all about what to do during Literacy Workshop.

Today, we really enjoyed:

5.  We started to pick books from our classroom library for our Literacy bags.  We will use our Literacy bags during Read to Self time next week.  We can't wait!

4.  We continued to work on our Monster stories.  Most of us worked on our final copies and started illustrating.  Our monsters look great!

3.  In math we learned about doubles.  We are continuing to build our fact power!

2.  We had Read to Self time.  We are reading for almost 20 minutes!

1.  In gym, we played Pin Guard.

It was a fantastic day!

Fabulous Friday!

Here are the High Five events from our day!

5.  We had a special treat!  We had a Starburst because we have all been doing and returning our homework.

4.  We had Read to Self time for 18 minutes!

3.  In Art, we painted our medallions.

2.  We continued to work on our Monster descriptions.  Ms. A says they look amazing and we are doing a great job of describing our creatures!  We will start drawing them on Monday.

1.  In math, we practiced telling time to the hour and half hour.  We have one page of homework.


Have a super weekend!

Playing 10 more and 10 less

Serious thinking!

Having fun learning!

10 more or 10 less

Monday News!

5.  Art - We started our lions. They have lots of colors and lots of patterns.

4.  We read I Need my Monster  by Amanda Noll.  We are going to create our own monsters and write a descriptive paragraph about them.

3.  We had more Read to Self time.  We are up to 14 minutes!

2.  In math we played the broken calculator game.

1.  We learned about picking "Good Fit" books.

Friday Photos!

Red, White and Blue!

Having fun on the playground

Extra Recess!

Stopping for a quick picture!

Using calculators in math!

Exploring repeated addition

Thinking and learning

Checking my work

Tuesday High Five!

Here are the best things we did today!

5.  We went to Art and started a clay project.

4.  In math we learned about clocks and time.  We also did our first mathboxes of the year.

3.  We went to the Library!  We met Ms. Z and Mrs. McNulty and learned about how to use the library.  We got to check out two books.

2.  Ms. Anderson read us another chapter from Gooney Bird Greene.  It is really funny!

1.  We are building stamina for reading.  We practiced Read to Self for 5 minutes.  It was wonderful!

Read to Self

Reading the entire time!

Getting started right away!

Reading our own books.

Building stamina for reading!