We had a very fun day! This morning we had art. We learned about texture. We then did some leaf art. We rubbed crayons on paper to show the texture of our leaves. Then, we put a painted leaf print on top! For language arts today we tried to write as many short o words as we could in our group, we reviewed our vocabulary words, and talked a little bit more about telling sentences. We had PE and music. Math today was learning all about the nickel and penny. We practiced counting on from a nickel. We all seem to be doing a great job with money so far. I think B-Mart has helped us with that! Social studies was learning about what a citizen is and about our country's neighbors. Ask your child to show you what we did in class to remember our country's neighbors! I hope you all have a wonderful weekend! Get outside and play in the leaves. See you all back here on Monday morning!
Today we started with math. Miss C. was not on the smartboard today because we used a lot of coins. We worked with nickels and pennies. We are really getting good at adding our money. Then, we went right into social studies. All during social studies we worked on our maps! They are looking fabulous! Right before lunch we had phy ed. We are still rollerskating and it was on the wood floor today. We felt extra fast. After lunch, we took our spelling test and did great. Then, we had a change. Our thid grade buddies were on a field trip so instead we went with second grade buddies in Ms. Voigt's class. It was cool to see some of our classmate's kindergarten teacher. After that we read our book Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots. It sure is getting creepy. After music, we had art. In art we made leaf prints. Finally, we ended our day with Cmart. I hope you all have a wonderful weekend. I can't wait to see you all on Monday!
P.S. Kudos to Brock, our handyman, for fixing our pencil sharpener!
Today was a good day! We are back on schedule and we had daily five this morning. We worked on writing our spelling words with a different color for vowels and another color for consonants. At the writing center, we worked on writing telling sentences. We are getting much better at writing sentences! We had library and computer today. In social studies, we learned what a city is, what a town is, and what a suburb is. We know that Esko is a town because it's a small community with not very many people and not many shops. Also, we looked at maps and had to decide if things were near each other or far away from each other. Math today was learning about counting on using dots. We put dots over the second number to help us count on. We all seemed to catch on to this really fast! I can't believe tomorrow is already Friday! I am very excited to see all of your smiling faces in the morning! Don't forget to read "Tom Fox" to someone at home and to bring in your LEAVES!
Today we had a busy morning. We started with a quick review of our language arts. Then we took our weekly spelling test followed by our weekly language arts tests. After this we got into center work. During this time Grandma Marge pulled boys and girls to read to her. We had 10 minutes before lunch to finish unfinished work.
After lunch we went right to music followed by a review social studies lesson. We are talking about land forms such as peninsulas, islands, and plains.
Then we went to PE where we roller skated. We took a break for snack, followed by math. In math we were introduced to math mountain cards. These will help us add and subtract more quickly. We also solved mystery addition story problems.
While I worked with a small group of kids the boys and girls did math stations to finish out our day.
Reminders:
Picture retakes are Friday, Oct 25
Today we started with math. Math was back to normal. Miss C was teaching on the smartboard AND walking around the classroom. Something we had noticed when we walked into the classroom was there was a question mark by stack and pack and we wondered if Miss C was going to make us sleepover. Crazy Miss C! Back to math, today we learned about and easier way to do the count on method. We just put the dots above the second number and count on. It is so much faster. THEN......we worked on our MAPS!! Ask your child what the name of their town is. Today, we added roads to our maps. Some of us named our roads Dog Dr., Street Dr., Thompson Rd., Bryce St., and Elijah St. They are looking FABULOUS!! After lunch, we read more in our book titled Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots. It's getting really creepy! YIKES! Then we learned about adding 'ed' and 'ing' to words. It was great. Then, after music we had daily five. Word work today was writing words with dot art. I can't wait to see you all tomorrow!
This morning, Miss C, Aleah, and Ethan partook in the WALK TO SCHOOL day! We walked in a little bit late and walked in on QUITE the surprise. When Miss C walked in all of the students were sitting on the carpet ready to learn and they had already said The Pledge of Allegiance as a class. That was AMAZING!!! It really makes a teacher's day when her class can continue even when she is not there. WOW!!! Then., we got to go to the theater. There we got to see a Police dog named Raja. She was beautiful and very smart. She can smell out drugs! It was crazy how she found the 'drugs' in the piano. What a smart dog. Then we went outside and got to look in an ambulance, a police car, and in a fire truck. It was so much fun! They even gave us coloring books that we got to color in before we went to music. WOW! What a great morning. This afternoon we had math/ We learned about the count on method. It's way FASTER then counting all of the numbers. Then we had our math centers. They were reading math books, playing cards, smartboard games, and working with Miss C. During snack today, we celebrated Gavin's birthday! Happy 7th Birthday Gavin!!! Then, finally we ended our day with language arts. We started a new story today titled Vampires Don't Wear Polka Dots. It was so good, that we begged Miss C. to read another chapter!! I think there is something fishy about their new teacher, Mrs. Jeepers. You should see the stories we have started to write about Halloween! It is so much fun! We get to keep adding to them tomorrow! I can't wait to see you all tomorrow!
Ms. Battaglia is BACK!!! She is feeling better but still a bit sore. This morning we had a fun presentation. The 911 Dispatcher came to talk to us. We learned all about when it is okay to call 911 and when it's not okay and really an emergency. We also got to see a K9 dog, go in a police car, see fire trucks, and sit inside an ambulance. It was very neat! When we came back we did some language arts. We partner read the story "Dot and Bob" and we worked more with our high frequency words. This afternoon, we had music and library. It was check out day! Math today was working on a new strategy. We learned all about counting on. We count on from the higher number. We ended our day with two social studies lessons. We learned about what a natural resource is and we learned about weather and the four seasons. It was a great day back at school. I hope tomorrow is just as good as today! See you all tomorrow, have a wonderful night!
Had a great morning! Busy with AR testing as well as new language arts centers. Tomorrow is our spelling quiz and lesson 4 language arts testing.
The boys and girls have a sub this afternoon as they work on math and social studies!
Today we started our day by taking a 2nd grade class picture on the playground to go with our school wide bullying movie. Then we came in and did our morning routine along with unfinished work for the first 10 minutes. After morning meeting we worked on language arts. We reviewed the vowels ee and ea. The boys and girls have been finding lots of these words in their free reading books-good to see! They also know if they find a robust word that they get a glitter ball :)
We did a mini lesson on what to do when you come to a word you don't know. They learned about Chunky Monkey, Eagle Eye, Lips the Fish, Stretchy Snake, Tryin' Lion, Skippy Frog, and Flippy Dolphin (ask them what each animal does!)
After centers we had lunch followed by roller skating in PE. Then we had music, snack, math and story!
This morning we came in and we were REALLY excited to meet the hero!! We had math first though. During math, we worked on story problems that we would solve. During centers we watched our classmates videos of story problems and then we had to solve them. Ask me what I did with Miss C. at her table. We also played cards with a friend at a center. During social studies, we started our maps. Today we just made the title and key! They are going to be great! After lunch, we finished up our key and THEN....... THE HERO CAME!! His name is Officer Steve Estey and he is from the Virginia Police Department. He saved a little girl's life. Ask me about it. Today he was presented an award in Hermantown with his crew for being such heroes. WATCH THE NEWS (Channel 6) tonight and you will see our hero! He is awesome! He even brought bags for us with tons of fun inside of them. Thank you Officer Steve. During library there was a fire drill! Mrs. Peterson said that we did great! After that, we were really sleepy. Half the class looked like they could go to bed, SO we went outside and EXERCISED!! We skipped, we galloped, we sprinted, and we walked. It sure helped because when we came back we completed EVERYTHING! We even started a story about a ghost pumpkin head. I can't wait to see you all tomorrow!! Don't forget to WATCH THE NEWS!!!
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