100th Day Update!

Hi Everyone!
Our 100th day is now on Wednesday the 13th (tentatively, unless we miss any more days). Therefore we will schedule our "Dress like you are 100" for the 13th as well. I can't wait to see the students! I will be sure to get plenty of pictures. I will be dressing up as well! As always, email me if you have any questions. Thank you and stay warm and safe this blizzard! Here is the graph of our predictions in inches for today's snow!

Literacy Night!

Did you know Big Ryan will be coming on Thursday night to entertain the students with some tall tales while the adults get a peek into how literacy takes place in our classrooms? I hope you can make it! Anyone of my students that come will get a no homework pass for that night's Math homework! Students can also see me on Friday morning for a pencil. Thanks and hope you can attend! (Don't worry if you haven't sent in your form yet, it's not too late!)

Penguings, Groundhog Day and Some Information!

We had a blast this week learning about penguins! We tied our nonfiction unit in Reader's and Writer's Workshop right into the penguin unit. We learned how we may come to tricky words in nonfiction but we can use strategies to tackle those tricky words. I modeled with many penguin books and we tackled big words such as hemisphere and regurgitation! We started out the week by writing down any schema we had about penguins. We will add our new learning to the chart on Monday! In Writer's Workshop we worked on an All About Book - All About Penguins. We learned about what all about books often have and we put some of those into our own books. They came out great. Next week the students will begin to think of topics for their own all about books. In Math we got to practice measuring with tape measures and also measured out heights for various penguins. The students are working in small groups to draw and color the penguins to look realistic. Hopefully we will be done this upcoming week and I can post some pictures!

 

 

We also read a nonfiction book about Groundhog day. Then we predicted whether Punxatawney Phil would see his shadow yesterday.



A reminder to please bring in cleaned out gallon milk jugs (labels off) for our Valentine's Day cards! I will also send a paper notice home but if you have extra that would be fantastic. You can start to send some in now! I also plan to have Valentine's Day craft workshops again so anyone that is available that day and would like to come, I would be so appreciative!

Please remember to write a letter or at least a short note back to your child in their parent notebook. It isn't just to sign your name that you have read it, but instead to write a short letter back that they can read.

Don't forget about our 100th Day dress up activity! Dressing up as if they are 100 years old is for our actual 100th day (the 12th). I know our school is having a celebration but that is on the 8th.

We also have Literacy Night for the parents/kids on the 7th! Just a reminder if you haven't passed in your form yet.

Penguin Video!

We are learning so much about penguins in class. Today we read nonfiction books about the Emperor Penguin and learned all about how the father cares for the egg and deals with the brutal cold while the mother heads to sea to feed. I told the students I would post an amazing video that shows this! I hope they enjoy! It's wonderful.

 

Nonfiction Discussion

These clips are a little hard to make out but the kids are discussing their nonfiction reading and reactions with reading partners. It makes me so happy to just listen in to their thinking and talking about the books!

 

 

 

Valentine's Day!

I will be sending home a notice regarding Valentine's Day but for those of you that like to prepare early, just a reminder that we are reinforcing the "no food" policy with valentines as well. Please do not send valentines that have candy/food included. I have seen some really cute ideas with things like stickers or pencils. I know it is tough but if you can please help to follow this policy, that would be great. Also, students will each need one gallon sized milk jug for our valentines! Anytime that you have an empty one, please clean it and send it in with your child. I can start to collect these anytime and would love extras for those that may not have them. Thank you!

Our Class Was Videotaped!

Our class made an appearance on the district's website. If you go to www.plymouthschools.com you can see the video clip on the home page and our class will be featured at different points throughout the video. I am not sure how long this will stay up so check it out!