Polar Express Day!

Don't forget to let your child wear their pajamas on Friday, December 14th. This is a very special day. It's Polar Express Day!!! Students get to have hot chocolate, eat pancakes, have a pizza party, make crafts, watch the movie Polar Express, and so much more!!

Thanksgiving!

Today we had a fun day pretending we were Pilgrims and Indians. This morning we read a book about Pilgrims and compared/contrasted Then from Now. Below you will see our chart. We made Pilgrim hats for the boys and bonnets for the girls. Mrs. Parfitt and Mrs Stolpman's classes joined us in having a Pilgrim and Indian Thanksgiving Feast for lunch. We sat out in the hall and ate on floor together. We even had pumpkin pie for dessert :) We had FUN!

Enjoy the pictures and have a Happy and safe Thanksgiving Break. See you all on Tuesday :)

2nd Nine Weeks Skills

2nd Nine Weeks Skills

Communications:

Reading

• Names letters- capital and lowercase
• Makes sounds for letters- capital and lowercase
• Recognizes and produces rhyming words
• Identifies beginning sounds in words
• Reads sight words without hesitation (I, see, a, the, can, you, we, my, like, to, play, and, is, in, on)
• Blends and segments single syllable spoken words
• Reads short “a” CVC words
• Looks at book quietly/reads independently for 10 minutes
• Discusses books with others (illustrations, opinions, predictions, characters, setting, cause and effect)
• Draws and writes the beginning, middle and end of a story

Writing:

Functional Writing

• Generates own functional writing topic
• Draws/writes/dictates “how to” steps in sequential order
• Draws detailed picture to represent each step
• Uses inventive spelling which shows letter/sound correspondence

Report Writing

• Generates own report writing topic
• Writes a report which is focused on the topic
• Draws/writes/dictates at least two facts about the topic

Includes detailed picture that supports writing

Speaking and Listening:

• Speaks audibly and expresses thoughts, feelings, and ideas clearly
• Follows agreed upon rules in a continued conversation through multiple exchanges (listens to others, takes turns speaking)
• Asks and answers questions in order to seek help, get information, or clarify something that is not understood

Math:

• Names numbers 0-15
• Places numbers in order 0-15
• Matches numerals with groups of objects 0-15
• Counts orally 1-50
• Names 2D shapes- triangle, rectangle, square, circle, rhombus, hexagon
• Demonstrates an understanding of more, fewer and same
• Compares two groups of up to 10 objects to determine greater than, less than or equal to
• Compares two numerals between 1 and 10 as written numerals
• Classifies objects into given categories, counts the number of objects in each category, and sorts the categories by count
• Describes and directly compares two objects with measurable attributes (height, weight, length)

Functional Writing

We have begun a new genre of writing...Functional Writing!! This genre is one of my favorites. We get to make lots of yummy treats during writing time. You may ask yourself though, What is Functional Writing? Here is a list from our class chart we made about what makes a good functional writing piece.
-tells your reader how to do something
-gives step by step directions in sequential order
-uses time cue words such as First, Next, Then, Last
-detailed picture to match each step

Here are examples/pictures of topics we have wrote in class together.

How to make a PBJ 

1. First take out 2 crackers

2. Next put peanut butter on 1 cracker

3. Then put jelly on 1 cracker

4. Last eat it

How to make mud pie

 

1. First put dirt (oreos) in the cup

2. Next put mud (pudding) in the cup

3. Then put a worm (gummy worm) in the cup

4. Last eat it

Red Ribbon Week

Monday: Put a cap on drugs- wear a hat to school

Tuesday: Give drugs the slip- wear slippers to school

Wednesday: Go for the Goal, Be Drug Free- wear your favorite sports team clothing to school

Thursday: Sock Drugs Out- wear crazy socks to school

Friday: I Say NO by wearing red- wear red to school

Farm Field Trip

 The Farmer welcoming us to his farm

 Corn Maze

 On top of the corn maze

 Hay Ride

 Lunch Time

 Pumpkin Patch

 My mom and I :)

Sleepy Sleepy!!

Today in writing I did something super silly and had to share with you all. We have been talking a lot about how important drawing DETAILED pictures are for your story. We have discussed that a picture also tells a story even if there are no words. In order to have a picture to tell a story it needs to be detailed. When someone looks at your picture they should know exactly what your story is about even if you have no words. EX. If I draw a picture of a pig, cow, horse and barn you would know I was at the farm. Our question in writing today was : What can I add to my pictures to make my writing easier to understand? Our answer was LABELS! We discussed how labeling a picture tells the reader more information about the story. After the class helped me label my picture I let them label ME! Here is a picture of what I looked like! We had fun :)

 

Labels: sunglasses, nose, ear, watch, whistle, name tag, arm, leg, toe, shoe, finger, dress, button, hand.