Wednesday, November 30, 2016

We watched a video about feelings we might feel on the first day of school with Mrs. O'Hearn. Next Monday we are going to have a writing celebration. We will be inviting some other teachers from the building. There will be another chance for parents to come to a writing celebration later in the year. During reader's workshop we learned how to picture what is happening in our books in our own heads. We make a mental image or movie. Miss Lloyd read us the book Owl Moon without showing us the pictures and we made our own pictures! During P.E. we played a fun basketball game. We worked on dribbling. During choice time we played so many games! We get to choose any game we want to play.

Monday, November 14, 2016

Every other Monday we have community meeting. Today we got our gem jar for Westshire ROCKS! We got the color rose petals. When we do something kind of nice Miss Lloyd will put a gem in teh jar. When the jar is full we will get to have a special celebration! Tomorrow is the Harvest Dinner! We will wait to go into the gym until lunch time. We will be good friends and be on our best behavior. We will visit with our guests. We are so excited!

Wednesday, November 9. 2016

 We had P.E. today and we played battleship and stuck in the mud. For battleship we have four mats and four pins at each "ship." We try to knock the pins down with balls that we throw. At the end, the team with pins left standing on their ship is the winner! There are also scooters which are the submarines. They collect the balls to hand to their teammates. Some of us played soccer at recess! It was fun working as a team. We had fun playing other games as well. During math we played a game with dice. We had to add the two dice together and then show that time on a clock and then write the digital time. We also got to do iPads during math with Mrs. Martino. On Wednesdays we have guidance but Mrs. O'Hearn was out today. We missed her! During writing, we studied author's craft. We learned that "..." means to take a pause when reading! We can't wait to try some special crafts in our writing!

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Today some of us finished our ABC books that we do for morning work. Today is election day. We talked a little bit about how adults vote and who the two main candidates are. Tomorrow we will find out who the new president of the United States is! We really enjoyed Spanish today! We got to look at books written in Spanish! Today was Grant's Birthday! HAPPY BIRTHDAY, GRANT!! We had blue and red cupcakes for Grant's Birthday and they were really good! Thanks Grant!

Monday, November 7, 2016

During morning meeting we learned the "Brown Bear Brown Bear" greeting. We learned how to make connections to the books we are reading during reader's workshop. We are finishing up our books about our families.We had music and REP today. We did a listening dance in a circle. We had to freeze when the music stopped. We had fun at recess. At choice time we had two new choices: play dough and stamps. We had a lot of fun! We earned a lot of gems today in our jar because we did a great job!

Tuesday, November 1, 2016

We were excited to start our day today! Today was the first day of November! We had carrots and cucumbers for our healthy snack today! During math we learned how to use pennies and dimes to count ones and tens. We played a game: penny-dime exchange. If you get ten pennies, you trade them in for one dime. The goal is to collect as many dimes as you can! We had Spanish today. We learned numbers and colors. We remembered that gray is said "gris" and red is "rojo" and blue is "azul." Some of us counted 1-20 and some of us worked more on 1-10. We had fun at Library. We made a list of how to be good friends. Today during writing we talked about our family trees. We will work on filling in our family trees tomorrow. We had a group conversation about how to be good friends at recess again today. Ms. T came in to talk with us helped us apologize for being unkind to our friends.