Paper Strip Jack-O-Lanterns

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Black Cat On the Fence

Our class guess the covered words in the poem Black Cat on the Fence. Then we built the lines of the poem on our SMARTBoard. Next the boys and girls found words on a mixed up version of the poem. After that they put the words together in order to build their own copy of the poem. After we finished the poem everyone had fun illustrating their poem.

Rainbow Name Clouds

Our room looks really colorful with the Rainbow Name Clouds we made today to hang from our ceiling.

Valentine Art

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We had fun making Valentine Art projects.

We Can "BEE" Proactive

This month we are talking about "BEEing" Proactive and working together to be bucket fillers. We painted our hands to make bees and hang in the hall with bees from all the other classrooms.

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Our Snowmen Charley-Lucas

This is the second snowman video. It features Charley, Emily, Ethyn, Junior, and Lisa.

Deck the Halls

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We had lots of fun celebrating with lots of Christmas activities on Tuesday.

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

We made some cute turkeys to help decorate our room last week!

Rainbow Name Clouds

We had fun making rainbow clouds with our names on them. We hung them from our ceiling and now our room is really colorful.

Gobble, Gobble, Gobble

Our room is gobbling with Thanksgiving fun! Thanks to Thomas' mom for helping us paint our hands last week to make the tail feathers for our turkeys. Today we finished our projects.

Fire Safety

Today we were visited by two of our local firemen. They talked to us about fire safety and brought two of their fire trucks to show us how they use them to help fight fires. They also showed us some of the equipment they use to help them fight fires. We also discussed fire safety in class and made a fire safety booklet. Then everyone wrote some fire safety rules that they remembered. We are working on making a fire dog to display our writing with. Ask your child how they can be safe if there is a fire.

Johnny Appleseed

In September we talked about Johnny Appleseed. We read some books about his life and watched a short video. Then we brainstormed some facts we had learned. In writing everyone wrote about some of the things they had learned about Johnny. We then made Johnny Appleseeds and put the writing on our art project. They look really nice in our hallway at school. Next time you are at school take a look and read our Johnny Appleseed facts.

Chicka Chicka Boom Boom

We read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom the first week of school and did a couple of projects to go along with it. On the first we tore construction paper to make the trunk of a tree and added the letters to our names climbing the finished tree. On the other we painted trees and added ourselves climbing the tree to find something that starts like each of our names. What would you climb the tree to find that begins like your name?

I Am Special

Last week we read the poem:

I am special

I am me

No one in the world

Is just like me

Then we made people to look like ourselves and placed them around an earth on our bulletin board.

My Hat

Last week we read The Hat in reading. On Friday we read My Hat and then everyone made their own creation of the book.

Finishing the First Week

We finished our first week yesterday. Fridays are fun because we don't do a formal phonics or math lesson and have time to practice some of the new things we have learned or do something a little different. This week we read Chicka Chicka Boom Boom together on Friday and then made trees with our names. Mrs. Beard helped us paint trees we will use for another project next week. We also read Chrysanthemum on our SMART Board and did a fun activity with our names.

Dilly Bars, Poems, and Rainbow Clouds

We had lots of fun at school today. We sang happy birthday to Megan during calendar. Today is her sixth birthday! Happy Birthday Megan!! This morning we rewrote a poem, New, that we read yesterday. Everyone chose four new things they have for school to include in their poem. It is our first poem in our Poetry Pages folder. We also finished our rainbow name clouds. They look really nice hanging in our room. This afternoon Megan treated the class to dilly bars. They were yummy!!

Snow Days

We came back to school on Friday of this week after a major snowstorm and three snow days. The boys and girls brainstormed all of the things they did during their snow days. We sorted our ideas by names of things (nouns) and words that told what we did (verbs). The students used this word bank on the SMART Board to write about their snow day activities. Everyone also created a snow picture to display with their writing. We tore white construction paper to make the snow covering the ground and then drew details with our crayons. Finally, they used white paint to show how the snow covered everything. Look for their writing on our website next week.

Winter

The boys and girls were given the letters e,i,n,t,w,r today. We built several words with those letters both on the SMART Board and with their individual letters. Then they were challenged to use all of the letters to make one word. It didn't take them long to build the word winter with all of the letters. Then they glued the letters on paper and made winter pictures. During writing we wrote about lots of things we like to do in winter. Look for those stories later this week.

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