This is what we did today!

We had writing. We wrote letters to our principals. Tomorrow is principal’s day. (Izzy and Alex)

We had first graders come read to us. (Claire)

We had art. We made the background for our flowers. (Aidan)

We finished Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise. (Ella McClary)

We did math. We did take away. (Chase)

We signed our name on a piece of paper for the cooks. (Emily) Friday is national cook’s day! We signed a special card for our cafeteria staff!

We had Fundations. We tapped digraph words. (John)

We are going to have a pizza party! We reached 100 Cougar Compliments. (Ishaan) This will be next Friday, May 9^th. More information to come!

Miss Hank’s friends came in to show us the signs to our Kindergarten program songs. (Alex)

Have a great night!

Here is what we did today!

We had math. We used the minus sign. (Daniel)

We had music. (Aidan)

We had a fire drill. (Ishaan)

We had Daily 5. (Vedant)

We had writing. We wrote for our Cat Tales book. We wrote a color poem. (John)

We read Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise. (Ella Murray)

Here is what we did today!

We had math. We played a math game. We had 2 dice and we rolled both of them. We counted how many in all and we colored a butterfly with that number. (Ella Murray and Vedant)

We had Ishaan’s birthday (Emily)

We had P.E. (Dominika)

We had read aloud. We read Mercy Watson Princess in Disguise. (John)

We had writing. We wrote about our weekend. (Ishaan)

We had Fundations. We did magnet boards. (Alex and Audrey)

We had Miss Hanks class show us the motions for some new songs. (Claire) We will be doing a special Kindergarten singing program for parents at the end of the school year! We are learning some songs to sing for you at this program! More information about this program will be sent home this Friday. This event will be on Thursday, May 29^th at 9:45 a.m. in the cafeteria. After the program you are welcome to join us for a picnic lunch outside. You may provide your own food or buy a sack lunch from the cafeteria.

We had Daily 5. (Anthony)

We had science. We did living and non-living. (Izzy)

Mrs. Hotchkiss showed us her medal from her running race. She also showed us some pictures. She went with her friends. (Kaela, Josselyn, and Chase) The class wanted me to share this picture! It was a great weekend! The kids were GREAT for the sub!! YAY!

Here is what we did today!

We had music. (Alex)

We did writing. We started a book about how to take care of the Earth. (Anthony)

We did Read Aloud. We read Mercy Watson Fights Crime. (Jenna)

We did a sort. We sorted the needs of humans, plants, and dogs. (Ishaan and Claire)

We did math. We lined up cube trains and saw which one had more or fewer. (Izzy and Alex) This was to help the kids understand that with subtraction we can also find the difference between 2 amounts.

We had Fundations. We wrote on our Fundations white boards. (Aidan)

Announcements

There will be a substitute teacher in my room tomorrow and Friday because I am headed to Nashville for my half marathon this weekend. If there are any changes in transportation, please make sure you call the office that morning to let them know so they can communicate the information with the sub. There will not be a daily email sent home on these days as well.

Thanks!! Have a great weekend!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. (Ella Murray)

We had read aloud. We read Why Should I Recycle and It’s Earth Day! (Dominika and Charley)

We are going outside to plant flowers. (Claire and Aidan)

We had math. We did a sort with recycling. We had the most plastic. (Kaela)

We made recycle bags. (Ishaan)

We made books with Mrs. Cardetti. (Daniel)

We had writing workshop. We wrote about Earth Day. (John)

I uploaded lots of great pictures of our Earth Day fun to our classroom Twitter account! Make sure and check it out! 

Here is what we did today!

We had library. (Dominika)

We did the Daily 5. (Nathan)

We had math. Ms. Miller and Ms. Pence did math with us. We said taking away is a fewer number or smaller number. (Josselyn) The class acted out subtraction stories!

We read a book. We read Mercy Watson Goes For a Ride. Mercy flew out of the car because it stopped. Everyone else had their seat belt on. (Izzy and Aidan)

Mercy Watson was driving the pink car. (Anthony)

We had writing. We wrote about our weekend. (John)

We did morning meeting. (Emily)

We did Fundations. We did magnet boards. (Christian and Ishaan)

Announcements!

If you can, please send in a piece of clean recycling for our recycling sort tomorrow!

Here is what we did today!

We had art. (Dominika)

We did writing. We wrote our opinion about what animal we like. (Emily and Ella McClary)

We went to the computer lab. We played on Mrs. Hotchkiss’ website. (Chase)

We are going outside. (John)

We had Daily 5. (Lauren)

We had a substitute come because Mrs. Hotchkiss had to go to the doctor. (Daniel and Josselyn)

We read Mercy Watson. (Alex)

We are going to have my birthday snack outside! (Izzy)

We did a bean paper for morning job. (Kaela)

Announcements!

Next week, we will be talking about taking care of our Earth! We will be doing a recycling sort on Earth Day. On Tuesday, April 22^nd, please send in a piece of recycling with your child that can fit inside their backpack. This could be a metal can, paper, plastic bottle or container, cardboard cereal box, etc.

Thank you!

Here is what we did today!

We read a book called Mercy Watson Goes For a Ride. (Nathan)

We played a Mercy Watson game. We played the matching game. (Chase and Vedant)

We had Fundations. We had magnet boards. We did nonsense words! (Lauren) We practicing tapping and building silly words!

We had science. We looked inside of a bean! We saw a baby plant and the baby plant food. The food for the plant was called the food storage. We got to peel off the seed coat. (Claire, Charley, and Anthony)

We had Daily 5. (Kaela)

We had music. We did the parachute. (Izzy and Ella McClary)

We had writing. We labeled a bean and we got to make a bean. (Ishaan)

We did math. We took away numbers. We counted how many there were left over. (Aidan)

We talked about STOP with Miss Pence and Miss Miller. (Daniel) This is a problem solving strategy. We discussed talking about the problem, talking about our options, and then picking the best option to solve the problem.

We made an iMovie and posted it on my YouTube channel about living and non-living things! I took the pictures from our nature walk yesterday and recorded some of the kids explanations of why the item in the picture was a living or non-living thing! Enjoy! The link is also posted on our class Twitter account!

http://t.co/47Dem43sMa

Here is what we did today!

We are going to go on a nature walk. We are looking for non-living things and living things. (Ella McClary) We took pictures of living and non-living things that we found. We will be making these pictures into an iMovie about living and non-living things tomorrow!

We had Daily 5. (Daniel)

We had P.E. (Izzy)

We read Mercy Watson and the fire department rescued Mr. and Mrs. Watson! (Vedant) Check out the Mercy Watson website! http://mercywatson.com/

We had writing. We wrote opinions about what we like to do outside. (Ishaan)

We had Fundations. We tapped words. (Kaela)

We had math workstations. (Alex)

We had math. We learned how to do subtraction. (Audrey) To introduce subtraction, we talked through a few stories about separating. For example, we talked about if there were 6 ducks in a pond and 2 flew away, how many would be left? We practicing counting the pictures to help figure out how many were left in the story.  

We did morning meeting. (Emily)

Here is what we did today!

We had library. (Vedant)

We read a book called Mercy Watson to the Rescue. The parents are going to fall through the floor but we think the firefighters are going to save them. (Audrey)

We had writing. We wrote our opinion about recess. (Izzy)

We did math. We had a group of 10 and another number to make a whole. We made a number sentence. (Nathan and Anthony)

We had Daily 5. (Emily)

We had Fundations. We tapped out words. We did the short vowel sound and the long vowel sound. (Alex)

We had morning job. We counted the boxes and put it with the right numbers. (Jenna)

We watched a living and non-living video. To tell if it living it is probably moving and breathing. (Josselyn)

Here is what we did today!

We had writing. We wrote about what we did over the weekend. (Izzy)

We had art. (Daniel)

We read a book called Mercy Watson To The Rescue. She is crazy! She is a pig who loves toast! (Ella McClary) This is one of my favorite children’s book series from Kate DiCamillo!

We had Daily 5. (Ishaan)

We had Fundations. We talked about the –ck digraph and we did magnet boards. (Kaela and Anthony) We talked about how when we hear a short vowel sound and then a /k/sound at the end it is a –ck digraph!

We had math. We broke cubes into 2 parts. (John)

We did math workstations. (Emily)

We had funny weather. There was rain and snow in Spring! (Ella Murray)

We did science. We talked about living and non-living things. (Josselyn and Claire)

We had morning job. We graphed eggs. (Jenna)

Have a great night!

Here is what we did today!

We had music. We watched animusic. (Aidan)

We had writing. We wrote letters to the 4th graders. They are doing a MAP test. (Izzy and Ella McClary)

We had Fundations. We did white boards. (Lauren)

We are going to go outside. (Vedant)

We got to see pictures of Claire’s new dog. (Anthony)

We had Daily 5. We got to bring some of our Daily 5 books home for the weekend. (Kaela and Charley) This weekend we are trying something new! Your student will be coming home with a plastic bag that contains 2 reading group books of their choosing! To help your children practice their reading strategies, please have your student read these books to you this weekend! Please have your student return these books on Monday so we can have them in our book boxes for Daily 5 time. Enjoy!!

We read a book called Cloud Dance. (Alex)

Announcements

Next week we are sending letters of encouragement to Mrs. Kinkade’s 4^th graders for MAP testing! I thought it would be fun to send the letters with a “Smarties” candy attached! If you would like to donate a bag of Smarties for Monday please reply to this email!

Have a great weekend!!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. (Ishaan)

We had science. One cup got evaporated by the sun and one didn’t! (Daniel) We put 2 cups of water by the windowsill. Each cup had a thermometer and were filled to the same water level. However, one cup was covered in plastic wrap. We noticed that by the end of the day the water level of the cup without plastic wrap was below the line that was drawn and was lower than the other cup! We talked about evaporation and how some of the water from the uncovered cup became water vapor! We also noticed that the cups were the same temperature as the air outside!

We went into the computer lab. (Lauren)

We had writing workshop. We did our opinion. We wrote about sliding on the slide or swinging on the swing. (John) Students decided if they liked sliding or swinging better and then wrote their reasons why.  We have been practicing using the word “because” in our sentences.

Miss Pence and Miss Miller read us a book called The Cloud Book. (Emily)

We made a cloud project with Miss Pence and Miss Miller. (Ella McClary) Students were able to pick one of the types of clouds that we learned about to make using cotton balls: Cirrus (high in the sky, wispy like horse tails), cumulus (big puffy clouds) or stratus (low clouds that are as flat as a pancake). We even had a few cumulonimbus storm clouds!! Ask your student about the hand motions that go with each type of cloud to help us remember!

We had Daily 5. (Alex)

We had math. We did the numbers in 10 frames. (Kaela)

We had Fundations. We pulled out our white boards. (Izzy)

Have a great night!

Here is what we did today!

We had library. (Dominika)

We had writing. We took our plan sheet and wrote 3 reasons why we liked fruits or vegetables. (Josselyn) We are working on our opinion writing.

We had science. We learned about thermometers. They check temperature. (Daniel)

We did math. We wrote addition sentences in a different way. We used 2 tens frames and we used 3 numbers in the teens. (Jenna, Aidan, and Charley) We talked about how 10+3=13 means the same thing when written 13=10+3. We talked about how the equals sign means “the same as”. We practiced drawing counters into 10 frames to help us write addition number sentences. We talked about how we can see numbers in the teens as a group of 10 and ones left over.

We had Daily 5. (Kaela)

We had Fundations. We wrote on our white boards. We were digraph detectives. (Ella McClary)

We read a book about clouds. (Izzy)

Announcements!

We are completely out of Clorox wipes! If you would like to donate wipes to our classroom, please send these in with your child! Thank you!!

I made a mistake on the April calendar! I sent a new one home today in your child’s folder. Click on the following link to open the electronic version.

Have a great night!

Here is what we did today!

We had art. We made texture necklaces out of clay. (Aidan)

We read a book called Weather at Your Fingertips. (Ella McClary) We began talking about temperature and thermometers!

We had writing. We finished the last page of our weather book. (Ella Murray) These are coming home today! We summarized the weather for the 5 days we recorded! We decided there were mostly cloudy days with no precipitation and strong winds!

We had math. We did counting on. (Izzy) We worked on counting on from 10 to count numbers in the teens.

We also talked about “trick words” in Fundations. These are words, like word wall words, that will need to know “quick and fast”. They are words that we cannot tap to solve like “they”, “you”, and “are”.

We also celebrated Noah’s birthday with a special birthday snack!

I was able to take some pictures of the Daily 5 in action today! Check it out on my classroom twitter feed!  

Please send back any Monday News that came home yesterday!!

Enjoy your evening!! 

Here is what we did today!

We had music. (Izzy)

We did writing. We wrote about our weekend. (Emily)

We had Daily 5. (Alex)

We had Nathan’s birthday snack. (Kaela)

We did our weather book. (Claire)

We had Fundations. We did our digraph sounds. We also watched the talent show. (John) Here is a link to a video of John's piano performance! He did a great job!!

We had math. We looked at numbers in the 100 chart rows and talked about the differences. (Ishaan and Charley) We talked about how the numbers in the ones place are the same when you look down the rows. We talked about how whenever you go down on the one hundreds chart, it is 10 more!

Announcements

Tonight is a PTA meeting where the new MCE PTA board members will be elected! Also, please remember to vote tomorrow!

Have a great night!

Here is what we did today!

We tested our wind socks and the wind went kind of fast and then really fast. It was strong wind. (Daniel)

We had P.E. (Ishaan)

We read a book called What Will the Weather Be Like Today? (Dominika and Aidan)

We read with our 3rd grade buddies in their room. We also had 1st grade buddies read to us! (Chase)

We had writing workshop. We wrote our opinion about fruits or vegetables. (John)

Mrs. Hotchkiss took pictures of friends with their wind socks blowing. (Anthony)

We had Fundations. We tapped out words. (Alex)

We did our weather books. We said it was no precipitation, cloudy, and strong winds! (Audrey)

We had morning meeting. (Josselyn)

Have a great weekend!!

Here is what we did today!

We had library and we picked out new books. (Aidan)

We had math. We did numbers 17, 18, and 19. (Daniel)

Tomorrow is going to be backwards day! (Ella McClary)

We had Fundations. We did our magnet boards. (Lauren)

We read a book about rain and clouds. (Izzy and Emily)

We did our weather book. (Claire) This wild weather has made for some great conversations!!

Stay safe! Have a great night!

Here is what we did today!

The forecast says it is going to rain at dismissal. (Audrey)

We had art. (Izzy)

We worked on our weather books. We had strong winds and, this morning, we had a lot of hail and rain. (Aidan)

We had math. We learned 14, 15, and 16. (Ella Murray and Daniel) We have been working on place value. We talked about how we can look at 14 as one group of 10 and 4 extra ones. We practiced putting this information into number sentences (10+4=14).

We read the book Who Likes The Rain? (Josselyn)

We did Daily 5. (Jenna)

We had writing. We sorted facts and opinions. (Ella McClary and Charley)

We had Fundations. We did our chunks. (Ishaan)

On Friday, we are going to have a backwards day. (Daniel) We met our school wide goal for Cougar Compliments! To celebrate we will be having a backwards day on Friday! The kids can come to school wearing something backwards.

Thank you!

Here is what we did today!

We had writing. We did opinion and fact. (Kaela) We did a fact vs. opinion whole group and individual sort! This will help us as we begin our opinion writing.

We had music. (Audrey)

Mrs. Hotchkiss read us a book about weather. (Emily)

We had Fundations. We did our chunks. (Daniel)

We had Daily 5. (John)

We did a weather book. (Claire) Each student started their own “My Weather Book”. We will be charting the cloud cover, precipitation, and wind speed for the next 5 days!

I have been updating our class Twitter account with lots of great pictures of things we are doing in our classroom! You can view this from my classroom website or you can follow us on Twitter at @hotchkissmce! Check it out!