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!