Links to songs we sing in class

I Can Count to 100:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v9-pEVaO4pM

2's, 5's and 10's song:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GTYxfltyPgg&feature=related

If You're a Kid:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fw6z94wJsWI

Letter Sounds:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Qy1Kmt9sMOA

Vowel Bat:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g43EfOXvpG8

100's Day and Valentine's Day fun!

theme

Since our holiday break, our themes have included winter, diversity and coming next week, is a penguin theme.  We have been working on personal narrative writing and writing to inform.  Ask your child to tell you what a personal narrative is.  S/he should tell you that it is writing about herself/himself.

Coming soon will be our 100th day of school.  Begin thinking of a 100's collection that your child can bring to school.  More information to follow!

We will also start sending home an estimation bag.  Each child will have a turn to bring in a bag of items to put in the estimation jar.  The jar will be passed around during class, and each child guesses how many items are in the jar.  The students love doing this, especially when they get picked to bring the estimation bag home.

Welcome back!

Welcome back!  I hope everyone had an enjoyable holiday break.  It was nice having the time off, but it is good to get back into the swing of things.

This week, our theme is winter.  Now, where is the winter weather?  I am okay without it, but it would make the winter theme a little more authentic with a little white stuff from the sky.

Today in class, we played a math game called Train Game.  The students worked in pairs with 15 cubes and a die with the numbers 1, 2, and 3.   The goal was to build a "train" out of the cubes by putting them together as they rolled the die.  The students took turns rolling the die and putting that number of cubes on the "train."  The winner was the student who had his/her "train" together first.  It seemed like the students did well and enjoyed the game.

Last week

We had a very fun time reading different versions of The Gingerbread Man.  On Friday, we made a gingerbread cookie to share (picture below).  We still have a few more gingerbread stories to carry over into this coming week. 

Other pictures are from a math game and teddy bear day.

This week

This week we will be doing a thematic unit on Gingerbread stories.  I have many different versions of the Gingerbread Man.  As I read the books this coming week, we will compare and contrast the different version of the story.  I love this unit! 

Corduroy

Hope everyone had a wonderful Thanksgiving.

This week, we are focusing on the story Corduroy.  Please remember to send a bear with your child on Thursday.  We will be doing various activities using our stuffed bears.

I have noticed great improvement in some of the students' writing this week.  It looks like a lot of you are really helping your child at home.  That is wonderful!!  Thanks for your help and support.

Library is cancelled this week.