Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. We did our stations. (Elizabeth)

We did writing. We did another plan sheet about when our story happened. We did our writing folder. (Sophia) We are working on telling when, where, who, and what in our stories.

We read The Three Snow Bears. It was by Jan Brett. It was like Goldilocks and the Three Bears. (Yahna)

We did math. We played a game called 10 in circle. You can start anywhere and you count that cube and you count around the cubes. If you land on red you have to give a cube back. (Mila) Check out your child’s Class Dojo for a video!

We did Fundations. We wrote the letters E and F on the whiteboards. (Landon)

We did days in school. We are 2 days away from the 100th day of school. (Nick)

We did closing meeting and snack. (Abigail)

We did lunch. (Serenity)

We did Daily 5 and we got to do 2 choices and one is after closing meeting and snack. (Sophia)

My PTC confirmation page is coming home today! Please send this back ASAP!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had library. We finished our ST Math passwords and then we played on MyOn. (Nick and Mila)

We had Fundations. We did capital C and D in our Fundations notebook. (Elizabeth)

We had math. We played the game Hexagons. We reviewed it. We played with a new partner. (Sophia)

We had writing. We had Monday News. (Yahna)

We had closing meeting and snack. (Serenity and Anders)

We had lunch. (Brynn and Elizabeth)

We had read aloud. We read The Hat by Jan Brett. We looked at Jan Brett’s website. (Andy)

We are going to do Daily 5. (Sophia)

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had art. We painted a little city. We could draw it at night or in the day. (Mila)

Andy’s mom came to teach us about Chinese New Year. We made a rooster and a Chinese lantern. (Elizabeth and Maggie)

We had math. We played Hexagons. The game board had numbers in the shape of hexagons. You flip a card and you can split the number or cover it up. (Yahna)

My mom gave us a rooster coloring page and a red envelope. It had chocolate coins. (Andy)

We did lunch, closing meeting, and snack. (Nick)

We read The Umbrella. It was by Jan Brett. It was kind of like The Mitten. (Kiernan)

We put The Missing Mitten in our poetry folder. We highlighted the words “my” and “it”. (Sophia)

We did morning meeting. (Bryson)

We did Daily 5 choices. (Abigail)

Lots of important things coming home today!! There is behavior update, a note about Valentine’s day, and a 100^th day reminder! I am still waiting on couple of parents to get back to me about dates/times for conferences so I will send the final schedule and confirmation sheet next week once I hear from them. I am attaching my most up to date schedule to this email. Thanks! Have a great weekend!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

It was my birthday. (Landon)

We had Landon’s birthday snack. (Madison)

We had writing. We did the next part of our plan sheet. Some of us finished our plan sheet. (Sophia and Elizabeth)

We had math. We played Compare Dots. There were bigger numbers on the cards. (Yahna)

We had music. We watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (Addison)

We did the days in school. (Serenity)

We retold The Mitten. We used our own puppets and used our own mitten. And we also told it to a partner. (Mila) Have your child retell the story and act it out using their props tonight at home!

We did Daily 5. We got to pick one choice that we had not done yet and then one choice whatever we wanted like our Monday choice. (Nick)

We did Fundations. We did the vowel chart. We did our tapping. (Lexi)

We did our poem My Missing Mitten. (Yahna)

We did closing meeting and snack. (Kiernan)

We had morning meeting. We did whiteboards. (Andy)

We did the letter C and D in Fundations. (Serenity and Sophia)

We did our paper book The Mitten. It went in order. At the end it went Aaaaaaa Aaaaaa Choooo! (Sophia)

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. We did square dancing. We did 4 laps. We played tag. (Elizabeth and Nick)

We had counselor. We read the book Tattlin’ Madeline. We talking about tattling and reporting. Tattling is when you are trying to get someone in trouble and reporting is when you are trying to keep someone safe. (Sophia)

We did Daily 5. (Brynn)

We did math. We played 1 More or 1 Less. We had a pencil and a paperclip to make a spinner. You roll the dice and spin the paperclip to see what number you got and you cover up that number. (Yahna)

We cut out our mitten and we glued the animals to Popsicle sticks. We are going to practice telling the story (The Mitten) in order. (Eshan)

We read the book Chalk. It was super detailed. The chalk came to life when they drew something. It had no words just pictures. (Addison) We talked about how our pictures tell the story!

We had writing. We did our plan sheet. We drew pictures of first, next, and last. (Kiernan and Abigail)

We did morning meeting. We used our whiteboards. We wrote “Today we have counselor with Mrs. Beiner” and we wrote what today is. (Sophia)

I am attaching a very rough copy of my Parent Teacher Conference schedule. This will probably be changing a bit. I have emailed a few parents to see if their day/time change works for their schedule. Please look it over and see if you need a different day/time and let me know ASAP! Thank you!

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did library. We worked on our password for ST math. We checked out a book. (Nick)

We retold The Mitten and we colored our own mitten and the animals. We are going to make our own mitten. (Mila and Maggie)

We started our capital A and B in our Fundations book. (Elizabeth)

We had math. We sorted out dog bones so they would be equal. We started out with sorting bracelets. We had 4 groups. (Sophia and Anders)

We shared our writing. We shared about something that has happened in our lives. We talked about first, next, and last. (Evie)

We did Daily 5. (Lexi)

We did our poem. It is called My Missing Mitten. (Kiernan)

We did the calendar. We used white boards at morning meeting. (Brynn)

It is already time to be thinking about Parent Teacher Conferences! Typically, the winter conference is the same day of the week and time as the fall conference. My schedule has changed a little bit so I will be contacting parents individual about possibly changing your time a bit. Conferences will be the week of February 13-17^th.  I will try to have a first draft ready by this Friday.

Thank you!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did math. We collected data about animals. We wrote how many animals there were and then we graphed it. (Elizabeth)

We had writing. We got our writing folders. And before we shared we picked a story and made it our best. Then we got to share our stories with our partner. (Yahna and Anders)

We had music. We watched Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. (Sophia)

We had Fudations. We practiced more tapping. We played Guess My Word. (Evie and Serenity) Guess my Word is a Word Wall Word practice game!

We are having closing meeting and snack. (Kiernan)

We had Daily 5. We did our last choice and we are going to do our 2nd choice after this. (Sophia)

We had morning meeting, calendar, days in school, and what we had for lunch, and also schedule. We did morning buzz. We shared about what we are going to do for the weekend. (Nick and Anders)

We had recess. (Andy)

We read a book about a girl who was black and she went to school with all peach kids. And the peach kids left because she was there. It was not nice. Her name was Ruby Bridges. (Maggie and Evie)

Have a great weekend!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. We had to dance with a boy! (Yahna and Elizabeth)

We had a toy party! We got to bring our electronics or a toy. (Nick and Maggie)

We had Fundations. We had magnet boards. With our magnet boards we did tapping. (Sophia)

We reviewed Racing Bears. (Kiernan) We will play this math game tonight at Cocoa Night! See you at 4:30 pm!

We had Daily 5. (Addison)

We had writing. After writing instead of writing folders we got to play with electronics or play with our toys. (Anders)

We did The Snowy Day book for writing. We wrote about how he put the snowball in his pocket. (Serenity)

We had read aloud. We read another book about Martin Luther King Jr. His niece wrote it. (Evie and Sophia)

We did snack, closing meeting, lunch, and recess. (Nick)

We did morning meeting, morning buzz, calendar, days in school, schedule, what we had for lunch, and the pledge of allegiance. (Sophia and Anders)

Our Cocoa Night Open House is this TONIGHT  from 4:30-6 pm. Feel free to come at any point during that time! The focus of the evening is math, science, and technology. The STEM bus will be here to demonstrate activities and we will be playing a math game in our classroom.  Like a traditional open house, your child can show you around the classroom as well. There will be hot cocoa served during the evening to enjoy!

The 100th Day of School is quickly approaching!  Currently, the 100th Day of School is scheduled for Thursday, February 2nd (unless we have any snow days between now and then). Our class is planning a celebration for the 100th Day of School in which all learning activities will be centered around the number 100. 

As a part of our day, our class will be creating a “100th Day Museum.” Please have your child bring a collection of 100 things to school on Thursday, February 2nd.  The collection needs to be small enough for your child to carry to school.  Some examples might include 100 paperclips, cotton balls, pennies, cereal pieces, ribbons, beads, toothpicks, pencils, playing cards, etc.  Let your child use his/her imagination to come up with a unique, one of a kind collection. Our class will be displaying their collections on the 100th Day of School during math.           

In addition, on the 100th Day of School each student will create his/her own special snack of with 100 pieces of food (like a trail mix).  For this special snack, we would like to ask for  donations.  Thank you if you have already sent in items! I made a Google Doc signup sheet so we can finish getting what we need!

Please sign up using this link: https://goo.gl/dr8Mn8 Please send in your snack donations by January 30th, so we can ensure we have enough snack for each student.  Each student will get 10 pieces of 10 snack foods for their trail mix.  Please make sure that your snack donation is enough for 22 students. Thank you for your help!

Thank you!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We retold The Snowy Day book. We had writing. We wrote in our Snowy Day book and our writing folders. (Mila and Andy)

We talked about Martin Luther King Jr. We read a book about him. (Andy)

We had Fundations. We did tapping. While we were tapping we were stretching out the word. (Yahna)

We had library. We did ST Math and we got to check out a new book. (Nick)

We did closing meeting and snack. (Abigail)

We did Daily 5. (Sophia)

We got new books for Daily 5. There were orange dot or green dot books. We also did Daily 5 choices. (Anders and Nick)

We did math. We got a pencil and a paper clip and you flick it to make a spinner to land on a shape. Once you get all of the shapes you count them and we colored them in to see how many we got. (Evie and Yahna) We were working on collecting data and graphing our information!

We did morning meeting. We did the calendar and days in school, pledge of allegiance and we talked about what we will have for lunch and we talked about what we were going to do today. (Sophia)

Don’t forget tomorrow is the electronic/favorite toy party and its Cocoa Night! See yesterday’s daily email for details!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had art. We learned about dinosaurs. Watched a video of a dinosaur eating another dinosaur. (Nick and Elizabeth)

We had writing. We worked on our The Snowy Day writing. We wrote about how he made snow angels in the snow. (Yahna)

We did math. We talked about capacity. It is how much something can hold. We tested some cups with snap cubes. (Sophia)

We talked about Martin Luther King Jr. We read a book and watched a video. His family called him M.L. (Abigail) The concepts of racism and discrimination were new to many students. I would suggest revisiting these with your student tonight at home!

We had Fundations. We practiced tapping out the letters to figure out the word. (Andy) This is similar to what it looks like in our classroom https://goo.gl/Jv79Ya

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

We did morning meeting. We did our math workstations and rules. (Sophia)

We are doing closing meeting and snack. (Brendan)

Announcements!!

Our class earned another set of 100 Cougar Compliments! To celebrate, the class voted to have an electronic party or a “Bring Your Favorite Toy to School” party! We will be doing this on Thursday, January 19^th since we couldn’t celebrate last Friday! I was originally planning on this coming Friday but since the forecast is calling for rain on Thursday , I thought it would be a better day. Each student is allowed to bring one small toy to school this day. This could be a small bag of legos or blocks, an action figure, a doll, stuffed animal, toy car, etc. No toy weapons please! Students are allowed to bring an electronic toy (such as a DS or small tablet) as long as the sound can be turned off or headphones can be plugged in. Please make sure it is fully charged or has new batteries. Please do not send valuable electronic toys because these toys will be unsupervised at times (recess, specials, etc.) Students will have the opportunity to play with these items at specific points in the school day. They will only be allowed to play with the toy in the classroom setting (not bus line, etc.) Please let me know if you have any questions!

The 100th Day of School is quickly approaching!  Currently, the 100th Day of School is scheduled for Thursday, February 2nd (unless we have any snow days between now and then). Our class is planning a celebration for the 100th Day of School in which all learning activities will be centered around the number 100. 

As a part of our day, our class will be creating a “100th Day Museum.” Please have your child bring a collection of 100 things to school on Thursday, February 2nd.  The collection needs to be small enough for your child to carry to school.  Some examples might include 100 paperclips, cotton balls, pennies, cereal pieces, ribbons, beads, toothpicks, pencils, playing cards, etc.  Let your child use his/her imagination to come up with a unique, one of a kind collection. Our class will be displaying their collections on the 100th Day of School during math.           

In addition, on the 100th Day of School each student will create his/her own special snack of with 100 pieces of food (like a trail mix).  For this special snack, we would like to ask for  donations.  Thank you if you have already sent in items! I made a Google Doc signup sheet so we can finish getting what we need!

Please sign up using this link: https://goo.gl/dr8Mn8 Please send in your snack donations by January 30th, so we can ensure we have enough snack for each student.  Each student will get 10 pieces of 10 snack foods for their trail mix.  Please make sure that your snack donation is enough for 22 students. Thank you for your help!

Our Cocoa Night Open House is this Thursday from 4:30-6 pm. Feel free to come at any point during that time! The focus of the evening is math, science, and technology. The STEM bus will be here to demonstrate activities and we will be playing a math game in our classroom.  Like a traditional open house, your child can show you around the classroom as well. There will be hot cocoa served during the evening to enjoy!

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. We did the cupid shuffle. (Elizabeth)

We did writing. We did our Snowy Day book. We also did Fundations. (Kiernan)

We had a guest reader. It was Ella and Ella! (Nick)

We read a book about Peter. It was Whistle for Willie. (Serenity)

We did the calendar. (Brynn)

We did closing meeting and snack. (Abigail)

We did our poem. We highlighted the word “the”. We drew what we do in the winter time. We put it in our poetry folders. (Yahna)

We did math. We did the measuring baskets. We did morning meeting. (Sophia)

We had lunch and recess and Daily 5. We had 2 choices. (Mila)

For Fundations we did the magnet boards. (Lexi)

I didn’t have time to organize the folders but in your child’s folder you will find a behavior update and other important papers that would have come home tomorrow.

No school tomorrow because of the incoming ice!

Enjoy the weekend!

Hi Parents,

Here is what we did today!

We had library. We did ST Math on the computers and we got a new book. (Elizabeth)

We did read aloud and we read Peter’s Chair. (Nick)

We did our The Snowy Day book. We wrote “Next Peter hit a tree with a stick”. (Yahna)

We made it to 100 Cougar Compliments. (Kiernan)

We did Fundations. We did our white boards. We practiced writing qu and z. (Lexi)

We did counselor. We talked about our brains. When you do easy things your brain sleeps but when you do hard things your brain grows. (Sophia)

We did math. For math, we used the balance. We weighed scissors, a pencil, a crayon, and an eraser. We used snap cubes. (Mila)

We did Daily 5. We did once choice. It had to be different from Monday and different from Tuesday. (Sophia)

We did closing meeting and snack. (Abigail)

Our class earned another set of 100 Cougar Compliments! To celebrate, the class voted to have an electronic party or a “Bring Your Favorite Toy to School” party! We will be doing this on Friday, January 13th! Each student is allowed to bring one small toy to school this day. This could be a small bag of legos or blocks, an action figure, a doll, stuffed animal, toy car, etc. No toy weapons please! Students are allowed to bring an electronic toy (such as a DS or small tablet) as long as the sound can be turned off or headphones can be plugged in. Please make sure it is fully charged or has new batteries. Please do not send valuable electronic toys because these toys will be unsupervised at times (recess, specials, etc.) Students will have the opportunity to play with these items at specific points in the school day. They will only be allowed to play with the toy in the classroom setting (not bus line, etc.) Please let me know if you have any questions!

The 100th Day of School is quickly approaching! On this day, each student will create his/her own special snack of with 100 pieces of food (like a trail mix).  For this special snack, we would like to ask for donations of the following:  pretzels, cereal (like cheerios/fruit loops), M&Ms, raisins or other dried fruit, mini marshmallows, goldfish or cheese-it crackers, animal crackers, teddy grahams, etc. Please make sure whatever you bring has at least 220 pieces (for 22 kids – 10 each). Thank you!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had writing. We made a book and we retold the story of The Snowy Day. (Evie and Elizabeth)

We put The Snowy Day pictures in order. (Mila)

We did art. Mr. Gwinner read us a book with a huge hole in the middle. It was a comic and we made a comic strip. (Nick and Evie)

We had Fundations. We learned qu. Q needs his buddy u to make the sound. We wrote it in our journals. (Yahna)

We had Daily 5 and writing. (Kiernan)

We had outside recess. (Landon)

We did math. We walked around the room with a partner. We had a paper that said heavy and light. We were looking for things that were heavy and light. We tested some things on our balance. We also did read aloud. (Sophia)

We read the Winter poem. We are learning the word “the”. (Bryson)

We had lunch and closing meeting and snack. (Nick)

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We read the book The Snowy Day.  (Lexi)

We went to music class. (Sophia)

We did calendar this morning. (Nick)

We did a project about The Snowy Day. (Mila) We worked on making connections to our lives. We sorted things from the story.

We did math and talked about weight. (Sophia) We started a measurement unit today! Today we discussed weight and heavy vs light.

We changed classroom jobs. (Kiernan)

We did fundations and learned the letter Z. (Sophia and Anders)

Ms. Cathy came to our class. (Elizabeth)

We worked on writing. (Evie) Today we wrote about our weekend and did Monday News.

We had lunch, snack, and closing meeting. (Nick)

We had Daily 5 and went over schedule. (Sophia)

Have a great night!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did a winter rotation. We went to every Kindergarten classroom and did a fun winter activity! (Elizabeth)

We went to Mrs. Dixon’s classroom and made a little gingerbread house. (Mila)

We went to Mrs. Russo’s class and on all of our tables we made giant blizzards with shaving cream. (Eshan)

At the rotations we did a snowball fight in Mrs. Flanagin’s room and in Miss Henry’s room we did a Frosty the Snowman mask. (Addison)

After Mrs. Russo’s class we read There Was a Cold Lady Who Swallowed Some Snow with Mrs. Hotchkiss and played snowman bingo. (Yahna)

We did lunch and closing meeting and snack. (Nick)

We did had P.E. We played a game. We had to make a hula hoop castle. (Pricila)

We did our read aloud. We read a book about blizzards. We did a short Fundations. We wrote the letter y and x on the white boards. (Sophia)

We had inside recess. (Landon)

We did the classroom rules. (Evie)

We did morning meeting. (Kiernan)

The 100th Day of School is quickly approaching!  Currently, the 100th Day of School is scheduled for Tuesday, January 31st (unless we have any snow days between now and then). Our class is planning a celebration for the 100th Day of School in which all learning activities will be centered around the number 100. 

As a part of our day, our class will be creating a “100th Day Museum.” Please have your child bring a collection of 100 things to school on Tuesday, January 31st.  The collection needs to be small enough for your child to carry to school.  Some examples might include 100 paperclips, cotton balls, pennies, cereal pieces, ribbons, beads, toothpicks, pencils, playing cards, etc.  Let your child use his/her imagination to come up with a unique, one of a kind collection. 

Our class will be displaying their collections on the 100th Day of School during math.           

In addition, on the 100th Day of School each student will create his/her own special snack of with 100 pieces of food (like a trail mix).  For this special snack, we would like to ask for  donations of the following:  pretzels, cereal (like cheerios/fruit loops), M&Ms, raisins or other dried fruit, mini marshmallows, goldfish or cheese-it crackers, animal crackers, teddy grahams, etc. (no nuts please) Please send in your snack donations by January 30th, so we can ensure we have enough snack for each student. You can send this in at any time. Thank you!

Have a great weekend!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We celebrated my birthday. (Pricila)

We had my birthday too. (Anders)

We had Anders and Pricila’s birthday snacks. (Nick and Anders)

We had library. We played ST Math on the computers. (Addison)

We practiced Daily 5. (Kiernan)

We finished our party hats. We drew a face and stapled it on. (Mila)

We did the letter y for Fundations. We wrote it our book. We did read aloud. We read the book Snowballs. (Sophia)

We had math. We did a number game on the SmartBoard. It was a 100 chart and some were covered. (Andy) We worked on place value and talked about patterns on the 100 chart. The students had to use what they knew about tens and ones to build a number with cubes on the SmartBoard. They also figured out the missing  numbers on the 100 chart!

We did writing. We wrote on balloons. We wrote a New Year goal. (Bryson) These resolutions will soon be going up on our hallway bulletin board!

We did morning meeting. We did our math workstations. We did morning buzz, schedule, calendar, and days in school. (Sophia)

We had inside recess. (Landon)

Have a great night! Stay warm!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We made a party hat. Tomorrow we will be cutting it out. It is to celebrate the New Year. (Yahna and Mila)

We had art. We had a substitute teacher there. Her name was Miss K. We learned about an artist named Faith. She illustrated children’s books. She painted pictures and made quilt pictures. (Addison, Anders, and Elizabeth)

We are having snack and closing meeting. (Nick)

We had read aloud and lunch. We read Frozen Noses. We talked about winter. (Kiernan)

We did math. We did a dot to dot to 25. It made a penguin. We also did count around the circle to 30. (Sophia)

We did Fundations. We did x. (Landon)

For writing we did Monday News. It was more like Wednesday News. (Andy, Evie, and Sophia)

We did morning buzz and we shared about what we did for Christmas. We did morning meeting and math workstations. We did calendar. (Sophia)

We made a list of New Year’s Resolutions. (Evie and Sophia)

We played Missing Numbers in math. (Yahna)

Welcome back! I hope you had a wonderful break!

Here is the sign up for Chess Club if you would like your child to attend! https://form.jotform.com/62367797321161

Have a great night!