Christmas Centers

This week our centers were tricky.  Candy Cane counting has patterns on candy canes that we had to fill in. This was tricky as some of the patterns were counting by 1’s from a random number and some were counting by 2’s, 5’s or 10’s.  We also did gingerbread problem solving. We rolled dice and had to write addition or subtraction sentences depending upon what the sign dice showed. We also working on ABC order some more. This continues to be tricky for some of us especially when we have more than one word that begins with a letter. We also graphed candy canes by color and then had to add them up.  We had fun Christmas tree cards and used them to make number sentences.   Our listening center this week was There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Bell. After we listened to the story we had to sequence it.  Whew. It was a busy week at centers!  

Reindeer Day!

Today we spent the day learning facts about Reindeer. We read a book and did several small books ourselves. We were surprised by all that we learned. We also made antlers to wear and got reindeer food to leave out. It was a busy day!!

Gingerbread Men

This week has all been about The Gingerbread Man. We have read so many great versions of this book this week.  Some of our favorites were The Gingerbread Baby and the follow up Gingerbread Friends both by Jan Brett.  At centers we worked on making complete sentences with punctuation. We all logged onto Jan Brett’s site and built gingerbread houses on the computer.  One of the trickiest center this week was sorting words into nouns, adjectives, and verbs.  Other centers had us sort words into word families, adding two numbers, writing addition sentences in fact families and adding using a number line.  We had a lot of fun.  For seat work this week one of the hardest jobs was sequencing the pictures of The Gingerbread man and then writing a version to match.   We have been busy!! 

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Happy Thanksgiving!

We were very busy this week. We finished learning about Native Americans and then began to learn about the Pilgrims, Thanksgiving and Turkeys. It has been a very busy week!  At centers we worked with ordering numbers, fact families, measuring in inches, writing complete sentences, and deciding between telling and asking sentences. We also “planted” corn with a fish in a dirt cup just like the Native Americans taught the Pilgrims.   Of course when we were done we got to eat it! YUM!

We also made Pilgrim boys and girls. Then we made a turkey with our hand for a Thanksgiving decoration to keep.  It has been a very busy week! Good thing we have a couple of days off!  Have a great Thanksgiving!

Native Americans

This week we have been busy learning all about Native Americans.   Our centers this week work focus on:  subtraction facts, Unscrambling mixed up sentence then adding punctuation and capital letters, cluster l blends, ABC order, & Counting by 2’s, 5’s, and 10’s.

Halloween Pictures Part 2

Thanks to Kailtyn’s mom we have more pictures!! Thanks so much for sharing!

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Pumpkins, Pumpkins, Pumpkins

We learned about pumpkins this week. Centers included a weighing center, making addition sentences with our fun big dice, a pumpkin subtraction sentence, and a telling time center.  My camera did something funny so the pictures are funny! Sorry!

Red Ribbon Week

At the end or red ribbon week we tied red ribbons onto the playground fence to show we are proud to be drug free!

 

Monday the 26th is "Hats off to a healthy body" Students may wear their favorite hats!
Wednesday the 28th is "Sock it to drugs" Students may wear crazy socks.

Harriet’s Halloween Candy

Today we read Harriet’s Halloween Candy by Nancy Carlson.  It is about a story about a girl that goes trick-or-treating and learns to share her treats. Harriet gets a lot of candy and she spends a lot time sorting it.  Her mom ask her to share some with her brother and doesn’t want to.  She tries to eat all the candy but ends up with a tummy ache. She then learns how important it is to share.  In our room we then got a bag of candy and spent a lot of time sorting it into attributes.  Ask us to show you and we will share a piece with you.   

Halloween Party

We had a lot of fun at our Halloween party!  Thanks to all the parents who helped out with it. 

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Nocturnal Animals

We finished our nocturnal animals unit today.  We spent the last week learning about all the different nocturnal animals. We read many books but our favorite was Stellaluna by Janell Cannon.  We also wrote what we have learned about bats.  Check out our writing in the hall when you stop by. 

Spider Presentation

We were lucky enough to have a presentation about spiders.  Levi is studying to be an entomologist and knows a lot about spiders. He taught us a few things and even showed us some live spiders.  The jumping spider was our favorite!  Thank you to Levi and his sister Chantel for teaching us about spiders.

Halloween Week

This week we have a variety of Halloween activities. We read a few stories that focus on sequencing. One was I Know an Old Lady Who Swallowed a Fly.  This then led us to read several spin off such as:  I Know an Old Lady who Swallowed a Bat by Lucille Colandro and There Was an Old Monster by Rebecca, Adriana & Ed Emberly.  The kids loved these. We also read and sequenced Big Pumpkin by Erica Silverman.  At centers this week we worked more on ordering numbers.  First the kids did each color of candy corn then the kids had to do all the candy corn.  This center was very challenging.  We also made our own monsters and named them.  The kids did a great job with this.  We also worked on ABC ordering, sound spelling, and our addition.  The kids did a great job.   

It’s Report Card Time!

Today you may log onto Skyward and check your child’s grade card. Copies of the grade card will not be sent home.  You will need to log onto Skyward to check your child’s grade card.  If you do not know your log-ins you can call the Vermillion office at 722-0266 to get it.  I don’t have access to that information. Tomorrow I will award prizes to everyone who has had their grade card checked.  I will log onto Skyward to check this.   A packet will go home tonight with some of the assessments as well as detailed directions how to check your child’s grade card.  Let me know if you are having trouble!! 

P.S. Don’t forget our pick-up day for cookie dough is today.  You can pick it up from 3-8 p.m. in the wrestling room at Maize Middle (45th & Maize)

Have a great Monday!!

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