Email me to sign up for a Fun Friday Snack date. The dates that do not have a student name are available. Please remember to send in enough snacks for 21 students.
I want to wish all of you a very Happy Easter! We didn't have an Easter Egg hunt at school, but some of the students were positive they'd be enjoying one this weekend. :) So I hope many of you are getting a chance to participate in one or two! haha
On Thursday we took Easter pictures and I was finally able to pass out the Easter presents I made for the class. (They'd been in the classroom over a week... the students mentioned them to me every day! haha)
Enjoy the slideshow and PLEASE!! Do not send in candy as a snack for your child. Thank you!
Our class won the Box Top Contest for March and we were presented today with SAND TOYS from the PTA!! The students were cheering so loud! It was too cute.
Anyway, although it's not Fun Friday... we will be bringing them outside today to enjoy. :)
This week there will be a lot of testing going on with the Upper Grades and we will have our Resource Time switched to 8:55. (It is 8:55-9:40.) This means we will be stopping to clean up breakfast earlier than normal. So... if your child is late to school, they will miss breakfast, but no worries our lunch time will be the same.
Our Resources for the week will be: Monday: ART, Tuesday: ART with Ms.Schmidt and Wednesday: Computer Lab. On Thursday I am passing out the Easter Treats I purchased for the class.:)
Math
We are reviewing the vocabulary 1 more than and 1 less than using the teen numbers going up and down stair cases. We are also completing a few Report Card Assessments: writing numbers, counting groups and making groups to 20. There are also a few students that still need to count by 1's to 100.
Saxon, Sight Words, Blends and More!
In Saxon we are reviewing how to use the breve and macron when coding unknown words. Our Sight Words are: way, call & then. Our Blend is FL__ and the Word Family is __ock, Plus we are discussing the long and show vowel sounds for O. Below are a few slideshow and videos that we will be using.
Reading
We will be discussing and retelling the book A House For Hermit Crab by Eric Carle. We will also be reading some FUN Easter Books and reviewing character, setting and plot with Story Maps.
Writing
By now I hope you were all able to check out the post made on Elephant Reports. Those reports were great and the students were so amazing reading their reports in front of the class. I loved it!! This week we are finishing up our Lion reports and writing Giraffe reports. We will then discuss Zebras to get us prepared for next week. :)
I was looking over the Home Learning Packets and I noticed that quite a few students had trouble writing their reports. I saw quite a few students began with the words, "I like..."
So, here are the reports the students wrote in class and they were WONDERFUL!! We watched a few Youtube Videos and read a few books. Then we had discussions about the facts that we knew and the facts we learned. The kids were AMAZING! They took turns listening to the facts their friends said and if they repeated the fact- they extended the sentences. For example: Elephant trunks suck water. It was expanded by another student who said: Elephant trunks suck water and then they squirt it in their mouths.
Before you watch the slideshow, I want you to know we wrote one Fact sentence together and most of the students have the sentence on their paper: Elephants are the largest land animal and they spelled it phonetically. :)
Enjoy looking at the pictures of the students sharing their reports with the class! 13 students shared. Others were either busy writing more sentences or they just wanted to listen to the others share.
This was the cutest Fun Friday Dress Up!! All the other teachers and students that passed us in the hallway were in AWE of how amazing the students looked. :)
There were five girls that completed the Dr.Seuss Reading Challenge. Congrats Girls!! Here are a few pictures of Emma, Alexis, Noelani, Leilani and Chloe.
