We love sharing!

In Language Arts we continue to understand the difference between long and short vowels.

Using our skills to identify beginning and ending sounds in words. We are also learning more on how to read and make our own sentences. 

Morning choice activities....

Willis, West and Ethan are beading.

Grady and Dahlia are making pictures with wooden pieces. 

 Molly and Mazie....are being kind friends!

 Molly is making a cool picture with the shapes stencil.

 Ryan is making a robot with the shapes stencil.

We love sharing! Many of our friends shared some of their special things throughout the week.....

 Evan shared a book he has been reading.

Maddie shared her special wand.

Ryder shared his transformer.

 Mazie shared her dog that talks.

 McCartney shared a couple books from home that she enjoys.

These books were read to us during the day. 

 Bodhi shared a rainbow book of "B" that her mom made her. 

Grady shared his lego ninja turtle.

Dahlia shared her necklace.

 Willis shared his lego snowmobile.

                                                 

Eva shared her dog. 

Kid Royal Readers

PLEASE REMEMBER..... We are going to the Flynn to see Pete the Cat on Tuesday! Please send in $8.50 with your child if you haven't already. As well as a cold lunch. Thank you.

This week in math class we practiced oral counting.  Kids came up to the front of the room and became the counting leaders.  We counted to 100 by 1's and by 10's.  Then we counted backwards from 20 to 1 and we counted from 13-21, from 89-100 and from 60-80.  After all that counting Beth showed the kids a cup that had "space rocks" in it.  There were 8 space rocks and we made all the number sentences that we could think of about the number 8, like 5+3=8 and 7+1=8.  We also introduced subtraction.  We sang and acted out "Five Little Monkeys Jumping On the Bed" and we read about Pete the Cat and his disappearing cupcakes.  Then we tried some subtraction on our white boards.  

In Language Arts we continue with our rhyming pictures. Everyone gets a picture card, then they have to figure out which picture rhymes with their picture. ie: hop/mop, mouse/house, sun/run, slide/hide, cook/hook.  Each student gets a chance to go to the front of the class and share their rhyming cards. 

A few books we have read the past couple days......

Fox and His Friends by Edward Marshall

The Seven Silly Eaters by Marla Frazee


In preparation for our field trip on Tuesday, we have been reading some of Pete the Cat books.
 by Kimberly and James Dean

Kid Royal Reader....was based on the story of The Pigeon Finds a Hot Dog! by Mo Willems. 

We have been working on our own Pigeon books. Today we started to share our books with the class. There was lots of detailed pictures and great writing. Many proud kids as they read their books out loud.

Free choice fun!!!!

Grady - "Connie look! I'm in my boat, a row boat."
Connie - "Cool Grady! Where are you going in your row boat."
Grady - "We are going on a fishing trip."

Morning meeting chart....we have been revisiting all of our good manners. Talking about what makes a good friend. Being a good listener. Taking Turns. Being kind and nice. Being a helpful friend. 

FLYNN FIELD TRIP COMING UP!!!!

REMINDER......we are going to the Flynn Theater for a special show of Pete the Cat on March 28th. Please send in your $8.50 for your child to go. Also, please pack your child a cold lunch. Thank You!

Special guest, Tammy the tooth fairy, aka dental hygienist, came to visit our class on Friday last week. She read us a book and talked to us about proper care of our teeth and gums.

Tammy showed us how to use our tooth brushes. 

 Grady and Willis explore a set of teeth and find which ones are bad teeth. 

 McCartney practicing brushing teeth on this wild horse!

Ryder and Earl practicing brushing the dinosaurs teeth.

Sharing time!!!!!

 McCartney shares her special rock.

 Dahlia shares about a pinecone and a bracelet.

 West shares his writing journal. 

 Grady shares his very mini mini lego guitar.

In Language Arts we have been taking turns being the teacher! Everyone gets a chance to come out and point to a letter, say the letter and its sound, then the class echo's it back.

Kathy wrote sentences on the dry erase board. Each student had a word at their seat, then, they had to listen for the word they had and if it was in the sentence, match their word to it.

 Ryan matching his word to a sentence with Kathy.

Ryder sharing his word that was in a sentence.

Kamden sharing his word "and" that he heard in one of the sentences. 

Small group working hard on being the Author and Illustrator of their own books. 

COMPUTER LAB

Every Monday we go to Computer Lab! All of the kids have a chance to work at their own level on Lexia, each week they are improving. So great to see the changes since the beginning of the year. 

Willis - "Connie, its trying to teach me non-sense words.
That is not what I am trying to learn. But it's kinda funny!"