Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did math. We played How Many More to Make 8? We had a game board, rag, and marker. You roll the dice and the number you got you have to figure out how many more it would take to get to 8. You have a whiteboard if you need it to figure out the number. (Yahna)

We did library. We got to draw a superhero but it had to have one different power. (Kiernan)

We had Fundations. We tried to think of words that end in –ot. We wrote it on our Fundations whiteboards. (Brendan)

Today was our toy party! (Elizabeth)

We had read aloud but for read aloud we watched a little video about living and non-living things. Non-living things don’t move, don’t eat, doesn’t need air to breathe and doesn’t have babies. (Sophia)

We had our poem. The poem that we did was I’m a Little Chicken. We highlighted the digraphs and we put it in our poetry folders. (Maggie)

We had Daily 5. We had 2 choices. (Sophia)

We had lunch. Instead of recess outside we did inside recess. It was just our class. We went in our classroom and we played with our toys. (Bennett)

A May calendar is in the folder! Reading books are coming home as well. Please return these on Monday. Have a great weekend!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

Our chick expert came! She showed us pictures of the chickens at her house. She told us about chicks. We asked her questions. She answered them. She taught us how to hold the chicks. We keep them close to the ground just in case they fall. We got to hold them. (Yahna and Elizabeth)

When we were done holding the chicks we went to art and we said goodbye to the chicks. Ms. Cramer our chick expert took them with her. (Eshan)

We had lunch and recess. It was rainbow day in the lunch room. They gave us stickers (Kayleigh and Abigail)

We had writing. We wrote in our chick hatching journals. Mrs. Hotchkiss called 3 friends at a time to hold the chicks. (Brendan)

We did math. We played How Many More to Make 10. I was Mrs. Hotchkiss’ partner to play the game. (Bennett)

We did our poem. It was called I’m a Little Chicken. Some people got to help point to the words on the Smartboard. Tomorrow we are going to put it in our poetry folder. (Sophia)

We had morning meeting. We got to do white boards. Mrs. Hotchkiss let us have a little bit of doodle time before we did our morning sentence. Our sentence was “We get to hold our baby chicks.” We also did the pledge of allegiance, lunch choices, and got ready for math. (Nick)

We did calendar. (Maggie)

We did a project. It was a chick life cycle. (Landon)

Tomorrow is our toy party. (Anders)

We had art. We got to bring home our dinosaur picture. (Evie)

Sorry for the confusion with Rainbow Colors day! Apparently it was Rainbow Colors day in the cafeteria but Kindergarten is wearing red tomorrow.

We need supplies donated for our Kindergarten musical on May 12^th! Please use this link and send in items by Monday, May 1^st! Looks like we just need one more gift card!

https://goo.gl/JY4npa

Tomorrow we will be celebrating 100 Cougar Compliments by having another favorite toy/electronic party! 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!

On May 12th, we will have a special music program called How Does Your Garden Grow. We are asking that you please send in a t-shirt in a plastic bag with your child’s name on it by TOMORROW! I know this is a fast turnaround. If you do not want to buy one you can send in $5 with a name/size/shirt color needed and a parent will buy one for you. This shirt can be an old shirt turned inside out that you don’t mind getting decorated but it needs to be free of writing or print. Thanks!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Part    Child's Name            Shirt Color   

Gardner         Maggie           Blue   

Gardner         Yahna             Blue   

Gardner         Priscila           Blue   

Gardner         Nick                Blue   

Gardner         Landon          Blue   

Gardner         Bryson           Blue   

Gardner         Elizabeth       Blue   

Gardner         Mila                Blue   

Broccoli (Plant)       Anders           Green

Tomato (Plant)        Kiernan         Red    

Strawberry (Plant)  Addison         Red    

Corn (Plant) Bennet           Green

Flower           Brynn             White

Flower           Abigail           White

Flower           Sophia            White           

Flower           Kayleigh        White

Flower           Madison        White

Scarecrow      Eshan             Plaid  

Scarecrow      Evie                Plaid  

Scarecrow      Serenity         Plaid  

Scarecrow      Andrew          Plaid  

Scarecrow      Brendan        Plaid  

Have a great night! Check out Class DoJo for pics and videos!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had music. We went in the lobby and practiced our show. (Elizabeth)

We had counselor. We played a game. We had to guess what job people had. We did read aloud. We read a book about jobs. We tried to guess what job it was. We have some future jobs in this class. (Kayleigh and Bennett)

We had writing. We got to write in our chick hatching journal. We put a different picture inside. We wrote about chickens. (Brendan)

We did our chick project. What we did for our project was we took an egg paper. We painted it yellow. We got to put a shell over it. We ripped it to look like it was cracking. We glued on eye balls and a beak. We cut the whole thing out. They are hanging on the bulletin board in the hallway. (Maggie and Mila)

We made flowers for our secretaries for secretaries’ day. We took tissue paper and pipe cleaners. We folded the paper and spread the paper to make it look like a flower. We took it to them before going to lunch. (Yahna)

We read the book Chickens. (Kayleigh)

We did morning meeting and closing meeting and snack and lunch. (Abigail and Landon)

Ms. Stemmons picked us up from inside recess. She read us a book and we did a project. We talked about making our own country. (Eshan)

           

Remind your student to wear red tomorrow!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. We played coconuts. We practiced hula hooping and jump roping. (Elizabeth)

We did math. We played How Many Am I Hiding? We played with 10 cubes. One person hides some of the cubes and the other person closes their eyes and they have to figure out how many were hiding. We have a sheet where we can keep track. We had a board we could use to help us. We wrote subtraction number sentences. (Yahna)

Lots of chicks hatched! Eight hatched last night and one hatched today. We have 11 in all. (Kayleigh)

We did writing. We did 2 times in our chick journal. One was before Fundations and one was for writing. The first one Mrs. Hotchkiss gave us a picture of a chick. The 2nd time Mrs. Hotchkiss gave us a picture of a life cycle. (Bennett)

We had Daily 5. We got to do 2 choices. We will do one after closing meeting. (Brendan)

We had lunch. (Maggie)

We read a book about baby chicks. (Brynn)

We did our poem. It was called I’m a Little Chicken. We highlighted digraphs. There were lots of them! (Yahna)

We did Fundations. We did the word family –et. We did the vowel chart and big cards. (Abigail)

We need supplies donated for our Kindergarten musical on May 12^th! Please use this link and send in items by Monday, May 1^st!

https://goo.gl/JY4npa

Tonight is the PTA meeting!

Thursday is Rainbow Colors day! Kindergarten is wearing red.

Friday we will be celebrating 100 Cougar Compliments by having another favorite toy/electronic party! 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!

Hi parents!

Here is what we did today!

Our baby chicks are hatching! Only 2 have hatched so far. (Yahna)

We did our poem. It was called I’m a Little Chicken. (Abigail)

We put the baby chicks in a big cardboard box. We made a window. They have food and water. There is also a heat lamp to give them light and heat. (Maggie and Elizabeth)

We had Daily 5. We did 2 choices. (Brendan)

We had library. We didn’t go to the lab we went to Makerspace lab. We played a fun game. We took little bots and we could control them. We practiced on paper. The fast one was blue, green, and red. The slow one was red, green, and blue. (Eshan)

We did writing. We wrote about the chicks. (Kayleigh)

We did writing. We did Monday News. We wrote what we did on the weekend. (Bennett)

We had math. We did our subtraction story problems. (Anders)

We did read aloud. We read a book about chicks. (Landon)

We had lunch and recess. (Mila)

On May 12th, we will have a special music program called How Does Your Garden Grow. We are asking that you please send in a t-shirt in a plastic bag with your child’s name on it by Friday the 28th! I know this is a fast turnaround. If you do not want to buy one you can send in $5 with a name/size/shirt color needed and a parent will buy one for you. This shirt can be an old shirt turned inside out that you don’t mind getting decorated but it needs to be free of writing or print. Thanks!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Part    Child's Name            Shirt Color   

Gardner         Maggie           Blue   

Gardner         Yahna             Blue   

Gardner         Priscila           Blue   

Gardner         Nick                Blue   

Gardner         Landon          Blue   

Gardner         Bryson           Blue   

Gardner         Elizabeth       Blue   

Gardner         Mila                Blue   

Broccoli (Plant)       Anders           Green

Tomato (Plant)        Kiernan         Red    

Strawberry (Plant)  Addison         Red    

Corn (Plant) Bennet           Green

Flower           Brynn             White

Flower           Abigail           White

Flower           Sophia            White           

Flower           Kayleigh        White

Flower           Madison        White

Scarecrow      Eshan             Plaid  

Scarecrow      Evie                Plaid  

Scarecrow      Serenity         Plaid  

Scarecrow      Andrew          Plaid  

Scarecrow      Brendan        Plaid  

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did a recycling sort. Each kid brought a piece of recycling. We wrote how many had the most. Plastic had the most. Mrs. Hotchkiss gave us a bag to decorate. It was a bag we could put recycling in. (Yahna)

We had read aloud. We read The Earth Book. (Brendan)

We had art. We did a fish painting. (Elizabeth)

We did an Earth project. We used a big circle blue paper to make the Earth. Mrs. Hotchkiss came around with paint for our hands. We put it on the paper. We wrote about how to take care of our Earth. (Mila)

We did lunch like usual. We did recess and Mrs. Hotchkiss picked us up. (Bennett)

We did morning meeting. We did white boards. We wrote addition number sentences. It was 1+9= 10 and 2+8=10. We did subtraction number sentences. We did 10-2=8 and 10-1=9. (Nick, Addison, and Anders)

We did closing meeting, snack, and playtime. (Andy)

Have a great weekend!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We played “How Many Am I Hiding?” in math. (Yahna)

In fundations we worked on family words. (Elizabeth)

We did Daily 5 and had 2 choices. (Brendan)

We highlighted our poem, The Chick, on the smartboard. (Eshan)

We sang a new song in music class.  It was called Johnny works with one hammer. (Kayleigh)

We voted on a toy party because we earned 100 cougar compliments. (Mila) We will do this NEXT Friday!

Announcements!

ARTS NIGHT is this TONIGHT from 5 to 6:30 pm! See you there!

An email from the school was sent out today about the Color Run. The event is tomorrow right after school (Rain date: May 5th)! Change of plans for dismissal! Your child will NOT go to Parent Pick Up! They will meet you down at the blacktop! We will have a teacher walk all the kids down for the event. I have a master list of who signed up. Kids are encouraged to wear their Color Run shirts to school tomorrow!

Earth Day Homework! Please have your child bring in ONE CLEAN item that can be recycled (detergent bottle, soda bottle/can, aluminum can, glass jar, magazine, newspaper, paper, plastic water bottle, small cardboard box, cereal boxes, pasta box, etc.). Please make sure the plastic items are labeled 1-7! We will be using these to learn about Earth Day TOMORROW!

On May 12th, we will have a special music program called How Does Your Garden Grow. More information will be coming home on Friday. We are asking that you please send in a t-shirt in a plastic bag with your child’s name on it by Friday the 28th! I know this is a fast turnaround. If you do not want to buy one you can send in $5 with a name/size and a parent will buy one for you. This shirt can be an old shirt turned inside out that you don’t mind getting decorated but it needs to be free of writing or print. Thanks!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Part    Child's Name            Shirt Color   

Gardner         Maggie           Blue   

Gardner         Yahna             Blue   

Gardner         Priscila           Blue   

Gardner         Nick                Blue   

Gardner         Landon          Blue   

Gardner         Bryson           Blue   

Gardner         Elizabeth       Blue   

Gardner         Mila                Blue   

Broccoli (Plant)       Anders           Green

Tomato (Plant)        Kiernan         Red    

Strawberry (Plant)  Addison         Red    

Corn (Plant) Bennet           Green

Flower           Brynn             White

Flower           Abigail           White

Flower           Sophia            White           

Flower           Kayleigh        White

Flower           Madison        White

Scarecrow      Eshan             Plaid  

Scarecrow      Evie                Plaid  

Scarecrow      Serenity         Plaid  

Scarecrow      Andrew          Plaid  

Scarecrow      Brendan        Plaid  

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had P.E. and we played touchdown. (Elizabeth)

We had lunch and recess. (Brendan)

We had math. We played How Many Am I Hiding? I got to show how to play with Mrs. Hotchkiss. (Eshan)

We did our writing. In writing we wrote in our chick journal. We wrote about what is inside an egg. Inside is the yolk and inside the yolk is a tiny red dot. It is the baby chick. We also glued pictures in our journals. (Bennett and Eshan)

We did our poem. It is called The Chick. Tomorrow we are going to highlight word wall words. (Kiernan)

We did Fundations. We did family words. We talked about words that end in –ig. We did our big cards and our vowel chart. (Yahna)

We did read aloud. The book was about chicks. (Maggie)

We did Daily 5. We did 2 different choices than yesterday. (Sophia)

Library books!

I forgot to mention yesterday that they are doing MAP testing in the media center so the kids cannot check out books at their normal time for the next few weeks. They are welcome to stop by the library between 8-8:20 am to check out a book if they would like to before coming to class. Thanks!

Here is the information from our media specialist…

With testing starting on April 17, classes will not be coming to the Media Center for library checkout.  If a student needs a book, he/she must come in before school to get a book during our open check out time from 8:00-8:20 each morning.  It will be important for students to have access to books in your classroom, from home, or the public library to read, as the library will be closed due to testing.  Due to the last day of school on May 25, I wanted to let you know that students need to make sure all library materials are returned by Friday, May 12.  We will be sending notes home with all students after testing begins about overdue materials to try to get them back before the end of this year.

Make sure to send in your recycling pieces by this Friday!! Thanks!

Thanks to a couple fans…we were able to stay pretty cool today! Thank goodness!

Hi Parents!

This is what we did today!

We got our chick journals. We can write about our baby chicks and what we learn. We got to color it. We did our first page. It was a picture of an incubator. We wrote about how the incubator keeps the eggs warm. (Yahna and Maggie)

We did math. We played Dot Addition. We wrote the number sentence. (Kiernan)

We had library. We went downstairs to the Makerspace room because they were doing the MAP test in the library. We got to make something. We had to follow numbers. It was kind of like Legos. The numbers went up to 8. We watched Storyline Online called Carlos’ Sandwich. (Sophia and Elizabeth)

We did the poem. It was called The Chick. The pictures were like a life cycle. (Eshan)

We did read aloud. It was called What’s In The Egg? (Brendan)

We did Daily 5. We did first choice and after closing meeting and snack we will do 2nd choice. (Bennett)

ARTS NIGHT is this Thursday from 5 to 6:30 pm!

Color Run is this Friday right after school (Rain date: May 5th)! If your child is participating please let me know with an email or note THAT DAY so I can make sure they go to parent pick up. You can walk down to the black top together once you have picked up your child.

Earth Day Homework! Please have your child bring in ONE CLEAN item that can be recycled (detergent bottle, soda bottle/can, aluminum can, glass jar, magazine, newspaper, paper, plastic water bottle, small cardboard box, cereal boxes, pasta box, etc.). Please make sure the plastic items are labeled 1-7! We will be using these to learn about Earth Day this Friday!

On May 12th, we will have a special music program called How Does Your Garden Grow. More information will be coming home on Friday. We are asking that you please send in a t-shirt in a plastic bag with your child’s name on it by Friday the 28th! I know this is a fast turnaround. If you do not want to buy one you can send in $5 with a name/size and a parent will buy one for you. This shirt can be an old shirt turned inside out that you don’t mind getting decorated but it needs to be a solid color (no writing). Thanks!

Let me know if you have any questions!

Part    Child's Name            Shirt Color   

Gardner         Maggie           Blue   

Gardner         Yahna             Blue   

Gardner         Priscila           Blue   

Gardner         Nick                Blue   

Gardner         Landon          Blue   

Gardner         Bryson           Blue   

Gardner         Elizabeth       Blue   

Gardner         Mila                Blue   

Broccoli (Plant)       Anders           Green

Tomato (Plant)        Kiernan         Red    

Strawberry (Plant)  Addison         Red    

Corn (Plant) Bennet           Green

Flower           Brynn             White

Flower           Abigail           White

Flower           Sophia            White           

Flower           Kayleigh        White

Flower           Madison        White

Scarecrow      Eshan             Plaid  

Scarecrow      Evie                Plaid  

Scarecrow      Serenity         Plaid  

Scarecrow      Andrew          Plaid  

Scarecrow      Brendan        Plaid  

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had writing. We got to write about our weekends. (Brendan)

We had art. What we did in art is we made some fish. (Kayleigh)

We got our baby chick eggs. We have 12 eggs. They came during Fundations. (Maggie, Elizabeth, and Kiernan)

We did lunch and our poem. Our poem was about baby chicks. (Bennett)

We had Daily 5. Some kids did reading groups. (Eshan)

We did math. We played Dot Addition. The game boards had different numbers. The tiny cards have different numbers on there. You add those numbers to try and make the number on the game board. (Yahna)

We did read aloud. We listened to a book about chicks on the Smart Board. (Eshan)

We did calendar. (Addison)

We did Fundations. We made a list of words that ended in –ack. Mrs. Hotchkiss pulled name sticks. Some people got to write it on the smartboard and another person got to build it with the little cards. We also got to write it on the whiteboards. (Sophia)

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had music. We went to the stage. (Keirnan)

We had math. We got to sort jelly beans all by ourselves. We had 3 papers. One was to sort the number of jelly beans. The next one we colored how many we had. And the last one we wrote how many of each and how many in all. (Sophia)

We had read aloud. We read The Easter Egg by Jan Brett. We had jelly beans during math and if we weren’t done we could eat them during read aloud. (Elizabeth)

We had writing. We drew our picture for Cat Tales. (Eshan)

We had Daily 5 and we did 2 choices. (Brendan)

We did our poem. It was called In the Sky. We highlighted the word see. Mrs. Hotchkiss gave us an Easter coloring page if we got done. (Yahna)

We will have play time. (Evie)

Some people went to nurse Shannon’s office to get fluoride on their teeth. (Elizabeth)

No reading group books or behavior updates coming home this week. With book publishing and Auggie being sick I just didn’t have time to get to it! I will send these home next week! Thanks!! Happy Easter! Have a great weekend!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did Fundations. We learned all of our digraphs. We practiced our big cards. We did our magnet boards. Mrs. Hotchkiss told us a word and we had to build the word with the digraph in it. (Yahna)

We did writing and Daily 5 together. We got to do 2 choices. We are going to do 1 after closing meeting and snack. (Kiernan and Brendan)

We had library. We checked out our books in the morning because there was an activity in the library. Fifth graders facetimed a book author. All of our library time was computers. (Elizabeth)

We had counselor. We talked about what we wanted to be when we grow up. We got to dress people on the Smartboard. (Abigail)

We did math. We played 5 in a Row. We learned how to play it. Mrs. Hotchkiss taught us how to play. It was really fun. We had to play 5 in a row 2 times and then we could play blackout. (Eshan)

We had read aloud. We read a book called The Moon. We learned a lot about the moon. How the moon shines is actually the sun shining on the moon. We learned that the moon looks huge because the moon is the closest planet next to us. (Sophia)

Instead of lunch before counselor we had it after. (Evie)

We did our poem. (Sophia and Yahna)

Please make sure your child has a snack in their backpack every day!

My son’s temperature spiked again this afternoon so depending on how he does overnight/tomorrow morning there might be a sub again tomorrow. Thanks for understanding!

Here is closing meeting from yesterday…

April 11, 2017

During Writing we drew a picture of what we want to be when we grow up.  This will go in our class book we are writing.  (Kayleigh)

We went on our field trip to the Planetarium at Rock Bridge.  We learned about the stars, the moon and the sun.  (Sophia)

On the field trip the lady had a red light that she used to point out things on the ceiling.  If a spaceship gets too close to the sun it will melt.   (Elizabeth)

We painted a picture of the sun and wrote a sentence about the sun.  (Abigail)

We did Read Aloud and read a book called The Sun.  (Bennett) 

Hi Parents!

We had music. We practiced on the stage for our program. After that we practiced our lines in the music room. We practiced it a couple times. We made a turtle map. We also had our fire drill. (Elizabeth and Eshan)

We had writing. For writing we did Monday News. (Kiernan)

We had snack and closing meeting and play time. (Nick)

We had math. We played Up and Down the Ladder. It was a little different today. Instead of saying the addition number sentence we wrote it on the whiteboards. How you play is you have a game board and 2 dice and counters. You roll the dice and whatever number you got you put in on the top or bottom bunk. Your partner flips over a card that says 1 up the ladder or 1 down the ladder. (Yahna)

We talked about the sun. (Bennett)

We had Fundations. We learned a new digraph. It was ck. We got to practice tapping words with ck in it. Ck is mostly at the end of words or sometime in the middle. Ck is in Nick’s name! (Sophia)

We watched a little video about day and night. (Abigail) https://youtu.be/BGBhWL-xy1I

We did a poem. It was about day and night. It was called In The Sky. (Brynn)

We did Daily 5. We had 2 choices. (Addison)

We had morning meeting. (Andy)

We had lunch and recess. (Anders)

Tomorrow is our field trip! (Sophia) No permission slip needed for tomorrow. We are going to the planetarium at Rock Bridge High School.

Your student’s writing will be featured in Mill Creek’s Cat Tales. This will have writing from all of K,1,2  and will be a paper bound, black and white printed book. This is different from the Student Treasures book. This will be a hard bound and published book featuring just our class. This will be printed  in color. Our Student Treasures stories will be about what the kids want to be when they grow up. I have not decided what the kids will write about for their Cat Tales stories.

PLEASE MAKE SURE TO RETURN YOUR STUDENT TREASURES FORM IF YOU ARE ORDERING OR NOT! If I get all the forms back I will get a free class book!!

Please let me know if you have any questions! Thanks!!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had math. We played a new game called Up and Down the Ladder. One person rolls 2 dice and you put the counters on the bunk beds. Your partner flips over a card that says go up or down the ladder. One goes up or down. Then you say the addition number sentence. (Sophia)

We did P.E. We had stations. You had tidy up and move to the next one. (Bennett and Maggie)

We did a smelling test. We had jars that had smells. There was a cotton ball in the way so we couldn’t use our sense of sight. We had to guess. The smells were hand sanitizer, cinnamon, coffee, and chocolate. (Yahna)

We did writing. We used our rough draft. We copied the words on another piece of paper that will go into the book. (Serenity and Addison) Order information is in your child’s folder tonight! Please have this back to me by next Thursday the 13^th at the very latest!! Here is the video I showed the kids about the publishing process https://youtu.be/qsm8go5gPRk

We did our poem. It was called Senses at Work. We got to highlight the word “look”. We put it in our poetry folder. (Kiernan)

We had Daily 5. We did one choice. (Brendan)

We watched a Class Dojo video. It said challenges make our brain stronger. (Mila) https://ideas.classdojo.com/b/growth-mindset

We had closing meeting, snack, and playtime. (Andy and Evie)

We learned a new digraph which is was wh. It makes the same sound as w. We played Smartboard game with wh. (Sophia) http://www.starfall.com/n/level-a/learn-to-read/load.htm

We had morning meeting. (Yahna)

Lots of important information in the folder tonight! Make sure and look it over! You will find sign up information for Arts Night, etc. Reading books are coming home as well! Please make sure these are returned on Monday! Thanks!

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did writing. We went back and looked for mistakes on our writing. (Kiernan)

We had our Mother Singers. They sang really good songs. The Mother Singers sang Take Me Out to the Ballgame. We sang Happy Birthday to our counselor Mrs. Biener with the piano. (Eshan, Landon, and Elizabeth)

We had snack and closing meeting and play time. (Maggie)

We had Daily 5. We got to do 2 choices. (Kayleigh and Brendan)

We had library. Since we are close to being 1st graders she treated us like 1st graders. We got to play on ABCya. (Addison and Mila)

We did a hearing test. Mrs. Hotchkiss had little eggs with things in them and she was shaking the eggs and we had to guess what was inside. There was one on the SmartBoard too. (Yahna)

We did read aloud. We read a book about hearing. It was called Ears. It talked about the inside of our ears. It talked about the inner ear. (Sophia)

We did Fundations. We learned about th. (Bennett)

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We did art. And we made bugs. (Kiernan)

We had math. We had the big arithmetic rack. We did Quick Eyes. Mrs. Hotchkiss covered up part of it. We had little racks and we explored them and then played a little game of Quick Eyes with our partner. (Elizabeth and Maggie)

We had writing. At writing we made a plan sheet for the words. We are going to copy it for a book you can buy! (Mila)

We had Fundations. We learned a digraph. The sound of it was sh. There was a ship on the card because you can hear the sh sound. (Yahna)

We had a taste test. We are talking about the 5 senses and today we did tasting. We got to taste sour, bitter, sweet, and salty foods. On the Smartboard Mrs. Hotchkiss showed us where our taste buds are. We got to try those 4 things. You had to circle the one you liked the most. (Sophia)

We tasted dark chocolate, lemons, jelly beans, and pretzels. (Nick)

We had closing meeting and snack. (Eshan)

We did whiteboards. The sentence was “It was thunder storming last night.” (Mila)

We had our poem. (Yahna)

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We had music and we were able to drum out the syllables of our last name. (Elizabeth)

In math class we worked with the arithmetic rack. (Eshan and Kayleigh)

We had a lesson with Mrs. Cardetti and it was her last time coming to see us in our classroom.  We made a book with her. We used cotton balls, googly eyes, sticky notes, stickers, cupcake liners, and aluminum foil. We reviewed what we did. (Sophia) This was our creativity lesson!

We did writing. We wrote about what we want to do when we grow up. Our writing is going to be made into a book. (Kiernan) More information will be coming home on Friday about our published book!

We had Fundations. We learned the digraph ch. (Nick)

We had Daily 5. We had 2 choices. (Evie)

We had morning meeting. We had whiteboards. Mrs. Hotchkiss wrote a sentence on the Smartboard and she made mistakes. We had to write it correctly on our boards. We wrote the date. (Yahna)

We had read aloud. We read When I Grow Up. (Brendan)

Hi Parents!

Here is what we did today!

We read The Sleepover for math. In the story there were bunk beds and one kid from the top would go to the bottom. After we read the book we acted it out. Green table was the bunk bed. We had 4 kids on the top and 4 on the bottom. We made different combinations but it was always 8. After we had 1 on the top and 7 on the bottom we had 0 on the top and 8 on the bottom. (Kiernan, Elizabeth, and Nick)

We had read aloud. We talked about our 5 senses. (Eshan)

We had Daily 5. (Maggie)

We had P.E. We played Money in the Bank. (Landon and Serenity)

We did writing. We did Monday News. We got to share about anything we wanted from Spring Break. (Yahna)

We learned about our 5 senses after lunch. We talked about if you can’t see you are called blind. When you are blind you can use braille to read. It has dots in lines that you can read. Sometimes they use a special stick or a special dog to help them walk. (Anders and Sophia)

We did a poem about our 5 senses. The one we talked about today is smelling. We talked about things that smell nice and things that smell stinky. (Sophia)

An April specials calendar and lunch menu are in the folder today. Have a great night!