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!!!

Happy New Year

Happy 2014! We have been busy the last two weeks and 2014 is off to a great start! We wrote about our New Year Resolutions.

Last week we also worked on greater than, less than symbol. We talked about the symbol being like an alligator and chomping on the biggest number...we did an activity using a "real life alligator."

We also had two students who got to take a friend with them to eat on the stage for being selected from best bronco ticket drawing.

We want to wish a happy birthday to our two December birthdays!

Polar Express Day

We had a wonderful time today for Polar Express Day!! We used our tickets to board a train in our pajamas to the North Pole. When we reached the North Pole Ms. A read us the story. After the story we enjoyed hot chocolate and cookies in the cafeteria. There was a special visitor in the cafeteria waiting for us.... Santa Claus!!!!! We had to take a group picture with Santa. When we returned back to class we all received a silver bell (similar to the one in the story) and we did some Polar Express activities. We had a great time!!

New Class Pet

We have a new class pet... Meet Franklin. He was given generously by a family from our classroom! We are so thankful for their kindness and are excited to have Franklin as apart of our family!

50th Day, Scarecrows and Lunch in the Classroom

Last week we celebrated the 50th day of school!! Check out our cool 50s outfits. We listened to 50s music and did a few 50th day activities. We are halfway to 100!

We also read the Little Scarecrow Boy and Who Took the Farmer's Hat. We discussed the beginning, middle and end of the story and wrote about scarecrows.

We also filled our marble jar last week and our reward was lunch in the classroom. We had so much fun! Breakfast AND lunch in the classroom in the same day:)

Red Ribbon Week Days 3-5, pumpkins, more place value, and Chick-Fil A

Red Ribbon Week Days 3-5

Wednesday was hat day!

 

Thursday was neon day and Chick Fil A spirit night!

Friday was silly sock day!

 

 

All week we read books and wrote about pumpkins. We made a pumpkin glyph and pumpkin mystery word activity. We also worked on retelling stories. We read Big Pumpkin, Room on Broom and Winnie the Witch to practice retelling. We talked about the "five finger retell" and had a special guest (Winnie) who came and read to us then did a retell on a witches hat.

 

We also continued working on place value. We made a cute candy corn craft that included standard notation, written form, pictorial model, and expanded notation. We also used abaya.com in the computer lab to practice place value.

 

 

Mrs. Hay also had the opportunity to attend a student's cheerleading game on Saturday morning! GOOOO UPWARD!!!!