Zipping Zapping Zooming Bats

Math was another day of counting 10.  Kids went around the room counting objects up to 10, we jumped 10 times, we walked on 10 spots and we did 10 toe touches! We also had a work sheet of counting 10 different shapes,  drawing 10 things and coloring 5 of them one color and 5 another color. 

These kids are really enjoying reading. Encourage your child to read to you. They can do a picture walk with you, or read the words with you by sounding out the letters, or they can listen to you read to them and then retell the story to you after. Ask them what happened first, second and last. 

Books we have been reading are about Bats! Today we read a scholastic book called Bats. It is a fact book about Bats with real photos. We also read a book called Zipping, Zapping, Zooming Bats by Ann Earle, an animated book about bats and their habitat and what they eat. 

        

After those informative books we made our own bats! 

Eli, McCartney, Earl and Fiona hard at work making bats. 

Our bats!

Have a great weekend!  

We can spell words!

We are getting so great at learning letters, that we can spell words on our own! In circle today we raised our hands and told Beth how to spell the words we knew off the top of our head. She wrote them on the board. Then we read them all.

We read Mr. Tiger Goes Wild, by Peter Brown. Then we did a fun activity today where we got to transform into an animal. Kids had a great time moving around the room turning into the animals that were called out to them.

Peacocks and Dinosaurs 

Language Arts we continue to retell books with beginning, middle and end.   We read The Little Red Hen, and talked about what happened first, second and third. We have even asked kids to tell us the beginning, middle and end of their own experiences. i.e.: Fiona recalled a time she and her mom went hiking. She was able to tell us the beginning, middle and the end. We also worked on writing letters Dd and Rr.


Another story we read was, The Tiny Tiny Ghost by, Kay Williams

Today the kids went to their specials of Music and Art.

Bats

We are reviewing the "beginning," "middle," and "end" of a book. Knuffle Bunny was the book we used to do this activity. We have been drawing pictures of the beginning, middle and end as well as retelling in our own words what the beginning, middle and end is.  We have been reviewing our sound cards of vowels and consonants.  Letters we have been reviewing are; B, D, C, S, T, N, M, F, A, E, I, O, U.  We have been using the magnetic alphabet boards. When asked, "find the letter that makes the sound ___," kids find the letter and show it on their magnetic boards. We finish our time with partner reading or independent reading.



Today the number 10 was introduced in math.  We continue to work on recognizing the numerals and thinking about different ways we can make 10. i.e. 5 and 5, or 9 and 1 equal 10.

We had a great video today about Bats! The video came from the PBS, Wild Krats.   Many of the kids have seen shows from the Wild Krats. It was a great video and we learned a lot. Kids did a writing activity where they drew a picture of something they learned about Bats and then wrote about it.

Thank you all for the snacks for the classroom. It is very helpful to those who forget snack or don't have enough and need a little more.

Beautiful Fall Day!!!!

We had a very fun morning greeting today. All of us in a circle, one person is in the middle keeping their eyes closed until we are done counting to ten and passing our friendly frog(stuffed toy of course) behind our backs. When we get to 10, the person in the middle tries to figure out who has the frog. Then we switch.

It has been an amazing fall. Today seems to stand out a bit for sure.  We had lots of outside time today, and hopefully these pictures below captured a few moments we had together outside.

 Recess fun!

We did a fun project of collecting leaves and making leaf collages with crayons and wax paper. They are hanging in the classroom if you'd like to see them.

There is a food drive going on at our school.  We are having a contest through the school, where each class is brining in food items and then at the end of the month the class putting on this food drive will be comparing amounts of food donated per class. The class with the most food donated will win an ice cream party.

Have an amazing weekend!

Writers Workshop

High Fives Foundation was at school this morning giving us a presentation on the B.A.S.I.C.S.(Being Aware Safe in Critical Situations) on mountain sports safety. We watched a little bit of a documentary about athletes who have sustained injury, but have been provided resources and inspiration to those who have suffered life altering injuries. A pamphlet and stickers have gone home with each child. 

We started by reading The Gingerbread Man by Jim Aylesworth. We are really enjoying partner reading in Language Arts. We continue with letter sounds and names as well as writing those letters. 

Willis and Ethan partner reading with the book 

Brown Bear, Brown Bear What Do You See? by Eric Carle

Math continued with Eight is great!  Lots of comparing and matching.  Making combinations of 8. See letter sent home in folders for more info.


We had another session of Writers Workshop. These kids are really getting into it. Not only are they having fun drawing their story, but sounding out the words and writing the words down on their paper.  It's so exciting to see the growth.

Fiona writing about her story. Lots of detail in her story.

Book read today... The Cow Who Fell In The Canal by Phyllis Krasilovsky

We had Art and Music at the end of the day today as well. 

Eight is great!

Eight is great! Eight (8), was our special number today. We worked on creating 8 in different ways. For example, coming up with combinations like 5 and 3 is 8. Coloring in our numbers, using fingers to make 8.

Today we had our writers workshop! First we read a book, Arthur Writes A Story, which then lead to us writing our own stories. Kids are really doing a great job drawing a picture and sounding out words to create a sentence to go with their picture.  

We read the book, The Recess Queen by Alexis O'Neill. This was a great reminder about handling of conflict resolution.

We hope you had a wonderful, long weekend, and are taking time to enjoy the beauty around us. Mother nature has certainly provided some breathtaking scenery.

At the end of last week we did a Social Studies lesson on Christopher Columbus. We read a story about Christopher Columbus, sang a couple songs, as well as made our own ships. Kids will bring home those projects today.

We continue to work on letters Aa and Gg and today we started learning about Dd and Ss. We are matching objects to letters and also writing letters in the sand. We've also played a bean bag toss game, where the letters are on the bean bag, you need to say the name of the letter and then the sound of the letter and throw it into the bucket. We continue to work on partner reading and identifying beginning, middle and end of the book. Today we read The Little Red Hen.

Ethan reading the letter on the bean bag .

Today we ordered the numbers 0-10 and practiced writing numbers 0-7.  We also played some games with our number lines.

Did you know we have a "voice scale chart"? We encourage kids to use appropriate voice levels during the day in appropriate places. Check out our chart that we use throughout the school.

We read More Spaghetti I Say! by Rita Golden Gelman and Kick, Pass and Run by Leonard Kessler.

We have hungry kiddos every day. Thank you for sending in snacks for your child for their morning snack, but if you are able please provide them with snack they can choose for our afternoon snack. OR if you can or want to, please send in a box of cheerios, or bag of pretzels, popcorn or anything healthy for the kids to have that teachers can hand out to kids who don't have a snack.