November 14th, 2018

Wednesday

During our inquiry into Language Arts we learned a new BLEND! We learned the blend ff... We talked about how there are not many words that begin with the blend ff (if any)... and that this blend usually comes at the end of the words. We came up with a list of words that ends with the blend ff. We worked in our phonics journals.
When we were done with that Ms. Gray read a story from the 7 Habits of Happy Kids! :) We love these characters and are looking forward to more stories about them! We learned that we are in control of our own choices.

After Gym, Recess and Lunch we had French!

During Math we practiced making graphs and sorting. We worked with a partner or in a small group and sorted our manipulatives then we recorded our data. After that we talked about the most and the least! We had fun with this and enjoy working with partners. Ms. Gray was very impressed with our teamwork! :)

During UOI we practiced the stages of the moon and did a fun exercise where one person was the moon, Earth and the sun! We watched a video about why the moon changes and found out that the actual moon does not change just the part that we see of the moon changes! We also learned that the word "month" comes from the word Moon.

We had a fun day in SK today. Towards the end of the day we got a little silly... Ms. Gray spoke with us about how tomorrow is a new day and we need to make green choices and follow directions. :)

Reminders/Announcements

1. Sent home the math test today! Our friends did AWESOME!! Please sign and return this!
2. Sent home scholastic book order. You can place your order online by Friday! :)

November 13th, 2018

Terrific Tuesday! 

Today was World Kindness Day! In the morning we worked our hands where we wrote something kind or a kind action on them. We made a list of different ways to show you are kind. Some of my friends decorated multiple hands!! Very impressive!

After Gym, Recess, Lunch, and French, we worked on our science experiment! Even though we have done our experiment 2 times before, and SALT wins every single time, some of our friends decided to choose something different for their hypothesis. GOOD THING THEY DID!! Apple Cider Vinegar won for the material that caused the ice to melt the fastest today!

While the ice was melting, we worked on Math. We collected data for our names in our class and counted the letters. After this, we figured out which friend in our class has the most letters and which friend has the least amount of letters. We had fun coloring the bar graph and spelling everyone's names! We even spelled out Ms. Gray's married name and counted the letters... There are 10 letters!!

After recess and snack we created 4 stages of the moon with oreos! IT WAS AWESOME. Ms. Gray was obviously a little too rough with the box of oreos because a lot of our moons were falling into too many pieces! We had fun learning about the moon and how it revolves around the Earth! It seems to be a very entertaining topic for all of the kiddos. Outer Space is interesting! :)

Reminders/Announcements:

1. School pictures went home - if you would like to keep them please send the order form and money back to school. If you would like retakes, please send back the package with the checked box on the order form that says retakes. RETAKES ARE NOVEMBER 22.
2. I sent home a moon tracker for the kiddos to draw what they see when they look at the moon!

November 12, 2018

Happy Monday! 

We got to perform at the morning announcements today! We sang a song about a poppy field and we learned more about Remembrance Day! We watched a video and had a moment of silence for all of the people who served to protect our country and our freedom!

During our inquiry into Language Arts we had our morning meeting, practiced the sound for Ff and learned the Jolly Phonics song for Ff. Then we worked on our phonics journals! We had LOTS of friends finish their journals and start on their other work.

When we returned from Gym, Recess and Lunch we did our sciences experiment again. We used the scientific method to complete our experiment. We started with a question, created our hypothesis, and then conducted the experiment. Our particular experiment has a little bit a of waiting so while this part of the experiment was happening we worked on some Math and UOI!

For Math today we did an assignment that shows Ms. Gray what we already know about data collection! Ms. Gray was VERY impressed with our friends and their work during Math! When we were done with the assignment we started to talk about the SOLAR SYSTEM!!! This is SUPER DUPER fun!... EVERYONE was so, so excited to hear the songs about the solar system. A lot of our friends were already talking about their favorite planet, which not many said Earth... I actually don't think anyone said Earth. However, someone did tell me that it is "OUR JOB TO KEEP THE SOLAR SYSTEM CLEAN!" I think that this little one was referring to Earth... Yes, we are responsible for our planet and need to keep it clean! No littering! :)

We had a fun and exciting day in SK today!

Announcements / Reminders:

1. Tomorrow is Kindness Day! If the student brings 2 dollars, they can dress casual!
2. We are starting the Soaring Through Space Unit! We will be doing lots of fun activities with the moon and all of the planets. I will be sending more information home tomorrow about this! 
3. Have a great night! :)

November 8th, 2018

Short Week Thursday!

We had SHOW & SHARE today!! We were showing our items from home that begin with the letter Hh and the letter Bb!! We had a bracelet, basketball, a blue jays hat, and a hairy stuffed animal! We spelled each of the words together on the board! Then we played a little with the basketball and got to writing in our phonics journals! 

During our inquiry into Math we took our patterning unit test! We did AMAZING! Ms. Gray was SO proud of all of our friends for doing such a great job with the test! She will be sending them home on Monday! After we were done with our test we read quietly (sort of) while others finished their test. 

During our UOI today we made an art project! We used paint to make poppy flowers to represent the soldiers that fought for our country. We are going to celebrate this on Monday as a whole school and Ms. Gray will display our beautiful poppies for the whole school to see! 

During our journal today we wrote a sentence about Remembrance Day! We watched a few videos of students talking about what Remembrance Day means to them.

We also have a special friend who has a birthday this weekend!!! I hope you have a great party with all of our friends! :) 

Reminders/Announcements

1. No School Tomorrow! 

2. Have a great weekend! 

November 6th, 2018

Ms. Gray, what's wrong with your voice?!

Great morning in SK. Because Ms. Gray was unable to talk very well today (lost my voice)... we ran morning meeting! We did SUCH an amazing job that Ms. Gray thinks that we should run morning meeting every day!

For language today we worked on our letter Hh. We sounded out words that begin with Hh on our worksheet. For example, there was a picture of a Horse, Hat, House, and Hippo... Ms. Gray was giving out A LOT of stickers today because our friends were so kind to Ms. Gray, asking if she was okay and making sure to encourage each other to make Green Choices! :)

Gym was SO much fun! Ms. Yustin says we had a FANTASTIC day! Ms. Gray was so excited to hear this. After Gym we had indoor recess! We wanted to go outside, but it was raining "cats and dogs" out there!

For Math we practiced our patterns. First we sat in our own personal space, so that we were only looking at our own paper, and we drew a pattern. Once we drew the pattern, Ms. Gray had us identify the pattern AND circle the core! After this we worked in partners to practice our patterns.

During our UOI today we did a few things... we used our senses to do our experiment for the science fair but we also finished up some of our fall work! We framed our beautiful artwork for the hallway! :)

When we did our first trial of our experiment, we could not contain our excitement!! :)
We used the scientific method: What melts ice the fastest?
Our hypothesis was: apple cider vinegar/ salt/ sugar/ water/ oil melt ice the fastest...
We did the procedure, and found that SALT was the fastest to melt the ice!! None of our friends had a hypothesis to say that Salt melted ice the fastest.
We can't wait to do our next experiment! :)

Reminders/Announcements: 

1. MATH TEST THURSDAY on Patterns... Please have the kiddos practice the packets that I sent home!!
2. No School Friday -- November 9th
3. World Kindness Day -- November 13th -- If students bring $2.00 they can have a casual day.
4. Science Fair -- November 16th!
5. November 22nd -- Picture Retake Day!
6. Homework sent home was a pattern packet to practice on Friday, if there are still pages left in that, complete that this week! I will send home a new one tomorrow with things to focus on. :)
7. I have heard from a number of parents how incredible RazKids is and how much it has helped their child. I have seen an improvement with the kiddos that have been doing RazKids!! Very impressive!! :) Keep practicing reading, friends!

November 5th, 2018

Awesome Monday! 

Today we started our day off working on the letter Hh! We were able to brainstorm 20 words that begin with the letter Hh! Then, we learned the new song and motion for the letter Hh! We earned stickers for getting right to work on our phonics journals and making good choices! We now have friends pointing out when others are making "green" choices! So exciting.

During our inquiry into Math we practiced patterns for our test! Our test is on Thursday! We worked with partners to create a pattern and then waited for Ms. Gray to see our pattern. We had to tell Ms. Gray what the core of the pattern was and what kind of pattern it was. Ms. Gray was very impressed with their work!

During our Unit of Inquiry we were learning more about the senses. We worked on the sense of touch. We learned about the neurons that send the messages to our brain from the nerve endings in our skin! We did an experiment with a partner, closing our eyes and the partner put their finger on our wrist and moved it up our arm and we had to tell them when to stop when we felt that their finger was in the crease of our arm. We LOVED this... it was so silly and we were all very ticklish.

We then worked on our journals and then packed up for Music!! We have been practicing our song for the Christmas Concert! It is ADORABLE!!

Reminders:

• Math Test Thursday on Patterns -- Please, please, please practice patterns with the kiddos. I have sent home LOTS of worksheets.
• No School Friday -- November 9th
• World Kindness Day -- November 13th -- If students bring $2.00 they can have a casual day.
• Science Fair -- November 16th!
• November 22nd -- Picture Retake Day! 
• Homework sent home was a pattern packet to practice on Friday, if there are still pages left in that, complete that this week! I will send home a new one tomorrow with things to focus on. :) 
• I have heard from a number of parents how incredible RazKids is and how much it has helped their child. I have seen an improvement with the kiddos that have been doing RazKids!! Very impressive!! :) Keep practicing reading, friends! 

November 1st, 2018

Day after Halloween.... Welcome to NOVEMBER! 

Today during our inquiry into language arts we worked on the letter Rr. We learned the song for Rr and we wrote in our phonics journals. Ms. Gray gave us a class sticker because we all finished our phonics journals before we left for Gym!!! Woo!

After Gym we had indoor recess......... wish we could have gone outside to play. But we made the best of it...

After lunch we had so much fun practicing our patterns with a partner. We had centers where a group of friends was working with playdough creating patterns that Ms. Gray told them (AAB, AB, ABB, AABB, ABBA)... then we had centers where friends were working in partners to create a pattern and the other partner was completing the pattern. After the pattern was created, we would talk about the CORE of the pattern, which is the part that repeats. We really had fun and did not want Math to be over... but on to UOI.

During our UOI today we learned about the way your ear works... We watched an informational video about all of the parts of the ear and then we played a game to guess that sound. A LOT of our friends got them correct... except when a friend said "that sounds like my mom sleeping".... it was a growling dog... #someonesnores These kids make me laugh.

After our game we had another round of indoor recess... some of our friends did not even realize the gold in our own classroom... We blew through Ms. Gray's classroom like a tornado, tearing things off the wall, opening every box possible... The positive, I saw all of our friends take responsibility for our classroom and clean up after all of our visitors! #proudmoment I also overheard my friends asking visitors to use their manners and to use kind words please... "Could you please say that in a nicer way?"...

We practiced writing a list during our journal. We will be working on this tomorrow as well! We also started practicing for the Christmas Concert!!! We have SUCH a fun song! :)
We had a fantastic day! I can't wait to see what tomorrow brings!

Reminders:

1. Math test next week (Thursday) on patterns. I sent home a few different worksheets for practicing this... I will send home more practice over the weekend. I will be reading their test to them!!

2. Words of the Week due tomorrow & Show and Share!