American Education Week

Hi Families!
I have chosen the day/time of next Wednesday, 11/13, at 12:00 to 1:00 as the time that parents can come to visit our classroom. The actual activity is to be determined right now as I am still thinking about what I want the students to be doing. I will send a paper notice home on Tuesday as a reminder. If you happen to see this blog post over the weekend and know that you will attend, please send me an email to help me in planning purposes. I appreciate it!

A Big Thank You to.....

 Mrs. Egan and Mrs. Walker (And Mrs. Campbell from Ms. Waterman's class) for coming in to help with a BIG project! We are amazed at how wonderful the background and road look along our halls and have gotten so many compliments! We truly appreciate it! I just gave them the vision that I had in my head and they knocked it out of the park. It's amazing!

Let's Talk Math!

This week we have been hard at work on counting by 2's, 5's, and 10's! The students are doing a great job with their skip counting and through Math Workshop, we are able to do many different engaging activities that really help the students grasp these concepts of skip counting and patterns in numbers. When students are on the computers for their "Math Fact" station, they are busy working at their own speed and level on practicing their math facts to build their fluency and automaticity on a site called "Xtra Math". I am able to monitor their progress and print out their reports. They love this computer site. Here are some pictures of various activities done in small groups this week. We are loving our Math Workshop time! 

 Building our counts by 5's and 10's!

 

Other activities in small groups involving skip counting and place value

Thank You!

I just wanted to give a big thanks to the many people that had spread the word regarding the FB contest for ClayChick! Our class won!!! We will have ClayChick come in on December 2nd for an ornament painting party! :)  We are really looking forward to it!!

Fall/Halloween Fun Workshops!

Here are some pictures from our Fall Workshops! The children had a lot of fun! Many thanks to Mrs. White, Mrs. Ryan, Mrs. Walker, Mrs. Ruuska, and Mrs. Caple! We really appreciated all of the fun you provided for us! 

Spider and Cat Drawings and Bat Origami!

Pipe-cleaner Spiders!

Styrofoam Ghosts!

Pumpkin and Ghost Bowling!

Paper Plate Ghosts!

Our October Animal Fact Book

Here is our October Animal Fact Book that we created using the iPad minis, Doodle Buddy app and Shadow Puppet app! I hope you enjoy! The kids did such a cute job on this. We will definitely be using the iPads more this year. Thank you Mrs. Winsper!

Calling All Creative Parents!

Hi everyone!
In honor of Veteran's Day, our class will be creating adorable soldiers. Ms. Waterman and I are in need of one or two parents each to come in on Monday (anytime during the day) or Tuesday to help create a background/bulletin board for our soldiers in the hallway. We have the idea of what we are looking for but need some wonderful parents to pull it together for us. Please email me if you are able to come in Monday (or Tuesday) to help with this project. It would be so greatly appreciated!!!
Challenge time!
1. What are the claws on an owl called?
2. Which continent is the only continent that owls do not live on?
3. Owls have flexible ___________.
Please email me your child's answer by Monday!!! 2/3 correct earn a little prize!
Happy Friday!!