Pumpkins, Spiders, & Bats... Oh My!

All About Bats!

The students read a variety of Literary Fiction and Informational text about bats. The students did a great job asking and answering questions and retelling facts they learned about bats.

Spiders EEEK!

The students continued to read Informational text about spiders. Students focused on identifying the topic and using the title and illustrations to make predictions. The students completed a response by creating a silly spider and listing facts they learned about spiders.

Spider Math Fun!

 The students did a great job using spiders to make sets up to 10, and joining sets together to write addition sentences.

The students also had fun graphing if they were afraid of spiders. Can you believe that most of the students in our class were not afraid of spiders?

 Halloween Math Fun!

The students really loved using The Five Pumpkins Poem to create addition sentences. 

The students also did a great job using candy corn to solve addition problems and write addition sentences!

 What better way to end the month of October? An AWESOME Halloween Party of course! Thank you to our wonderful parents for helping us  have a great celebration....

Week 7 Fun

Parent/Teacher Conference Time!

If you haven't done so, click on the link to schedule a time to conference about your child.
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It's Party Time

Our Fall Festival will be on October 30, 2015 from 1:15-1:45p.m.  Each student will need to bring treats for 20 kids to go in their treat bucket: Examples, candy, stickers, pencils, erasers, small toys or gifts, etc… by Friday, October 23, 2015. I will supply treat buckets for the students.

Language Arts

This week, the students read a variety of Literary Fiction and Informational texts. The students practiced asking and answering questions before, during, and after reading. The students loved using their question hats to remind them of the correct words to use when asking questions.

The students also practiced identifying the number syllables in a word by hopping the word parts. 

Math

The students continued to build number sense with numbers 11-15.

It was all bout QR Codes during Math Stations this week. The students love using QR Codes to self check their answers.

      

Science Fun

The students identified the needs of plants and animals and sorted objects into categories of living and nonliving.

Week 6 All About Apples

This week was all about Apples! The students focused on learning how to identify the topic and details of informational text. The students used the information learned to label the parts of an apple.

The students continued to focus on letters and sounds with an emphasis on the five vowels. The students did a great job working in collaborative groups to hunt for the vowels, identify, and name their long and short sounds. 

3d to 2d Guided Math

Students continued to build number sense focusing on the numbers 9 and 10. The students also focused on building one more/ one less. During Guided Practice, the students model the different ways to make numbers 9 and 10 using our life size ten frame and math manipulatives. Then, the students drew their interpretations of the different ways. This is what we call the 3d to 2d model, students ability to apply hands-on math to pencil and paper.

Fun Friday

Fun Friday was all about apples. The students started out the day practicing rhyming words using Kahoot. The students are truly becoming 21st century learners. They are learning in so many ways using hands-on, technology, and pencil & paper. 

The students also were scientist. They observed, measured, weighed, and describe the characteristic of apples.

The students read the book Ten Apples Up On Top and responded by rolling a die and gluing that many apples on top of their head.

Students also tasted  red, green, and yellow apples to graph which apple they liked the best. Can you believe that our class liked green apples the best?

What better way to end our week about apples?

 Hot apple pie, Yum!

Week 3

 Open House 

Tuesday, September 15, 2015 at 6:00 P.M.

I will go over important information about homework, daily readers, and more. I cant wait to see you there!

 READBOX OPEN!

Students are finally trained on how to scan QR Codes. They were very excited to find out that the READBOX, our QR Code listening station, is finally opened. The students did a great job during Daily 5 listening to their favorite read alouds!

Compound Word Fun

Students had a lot of much fun learning how to put two words together to make one word.

Math Fun

Students continued with number sense 0-5. During 3d to 2d guided practice, students compared and made sets that were equal, greater, and less than.

Fun Friday

We love Fun Friday! I cant wait to reward my students for all their hard work during the week. This Friday was so special because the students competed in their first interactive game using Kahoot.it. Students practiced identifying beginning sounds. I love how serious they look when their thinking.

Also, students tweeted something new they learned for the first time on our class Twitter board. This is a great way for the students to reflect on their learning!

Week 2 Fun

Students continued learning number sense 0-5. Students worked in collaborative learning groups to order numbers 1-10. The students also practiced one to one correspondence by counting ducks and identifying the number counted.

Students loved using the interactive die to make numbers 0-6 on a ten frame train.

 

During week 2, the students did an awesome job with phonics. Take a peek into our week to check out our phonics activities.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom activity. Students identifying letters and sounds on the coconut tree!

All about the letters T,G,N,& P!

Green on Gg

Tissue on Tt

Purple on Pp

Students sort pictures that have the initial sound of /n/ and complete newspaper on Nn activity

What a great way to end our week with a visit from the Crosby Cougar's Football Team. The students were truly excited to meet and talk with the players. Go Coogs!

To top off our Fun Friday, the students made a special treat for all their hard work this week. Love the smiling faces!