Snowmen, Spring Creek, DEAR week, Contractions

We had a very busy week! We read about snowmen, wrote about snowmen, our poetry was "The Snowman" and we enjoyed a special snowman donut snack. We also learned about contractions with "not." Check out the video below.

 

Contraction video:

 

 

We celebrated a January birthday on Friday!! 

We also enjoyed wearing our winning Spring Creek shirts on Friday! We looked AWESOME!! 

This week has also been DEAR week (drop everything and read). Friday we read with our 3rd grade book buddies and got to listen to a guest reader with her dog Cassidy. The kids loved it!

Last but not least we had exciting news... A student in our class had perfect attendance from the first semester so her name went into a drawing and she won a bicycle!!!

Graphing, College Shirt Day

Last week we made real object shoe graphs and Skittles graphs. After graphing using the Skittles we then made a bar type graph to show same information. We also read different versions of The Three Little Pigs and graphed our favorite book.

 

Thursday was college shirt day!

Happy Birthday to our last September birthday!
 

Birthdays, Award, Twenty Frames and Brain Breaks

We've already celebrated two birthdays in our classroom. HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

CONGRATS to our attendance winner from not missing a day of school so far. He won a monster truck from Pride Rally this morning. His name was picked out of a basket of ALL students who had perfect attendance so far for a chance to win a prize. 

We made numbers using counters on a twenty frame. We practiced starting in the top left corner and filling it from left to right and top to bottom. 

When we work REALLY hard and start to get restless we take a "brain break". Check out one of our brain breaks from today!

October Birthdays and....BATS!

Mrs. Hay wants to wish a HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our October birthdays!

Last week we studied BATS! We made a KWL chart about what we already KNOW, what we WANT to find out, and what we LEARNED about bats. We also wrote about bats first with a circle map, then a tree map and then our batty sentences. We also created bats and traced our hands as the wings. In math, we skip counted by 5s and 10s using our bat wings. Our bats flew out into the hallway and are on display this week. In ELA we've started to talk about author's purpose and why books are written...are they to inform (to give us facts/information) or are they to entertain (for fun/enjoyment)? Students used Scholastic book forms to sort books into an inform or enterain t-chart. This week we will be reading about SPIDERS!

REMINDERS: this week is book fair in our school library and PTA meeting tomorrow night, Tuesday, October 16th at 7PM in the cafeteria. See you there!