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.

Monday, October 31, 2016

HAPPY HALLOWEEN! BOO! We are excited to dress up in our costumes tonight! During math we worked on a rainbow for the friends of ten. We are working on a story all about our families. We have been working on this during social studies and writing. Today we got a new buddy bench at our school. If you need a friend to play with at recess you can sit on the bench and friends will come over to play with you or cheer you up. We had the chance to go outside and see the bench before school ended. Nine people can fit on the bench at one time! This bench is in memory of Dylan O'Hearn. We talked about how we want to try to be good friends to one another just like Dylan was to everyone at Westshire.

Happy Halloween! This is one of our favorite greetings: the spider web!

Westshire's Beautiful Buddy Bench

Thursday, October 27, 2016

 This morning we had a lot of fun visiting with friends and doing our work. We learned two new trick words today during Fundations: to, into. During math Mrs. MacQueen came to watch our lesson. Tomorrow is Friday and we will be building Frankenstein in P.E. Tomorrow is also the Halloween dance at Samuel Morey Elementary. Some of us are going-yay!  Today during Art before we drew pictures, we helped unpack all the new art supplies! We read a book and drew a mistake on our paper on purpose. Then, we turned our mistake into a masterpiece! We got to draw anything we wanted! We did okay today, but tomorrow we will work on our listening and being quieter. We had a fun day together!

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

During P.E. we played pin guard. The goal is to knock over five bowling pins with a ball. We are practicing throwing a ball. We had a lot of fun during P.E.! Some of us threw the ball really high! Ms. Otis told us on Friday we will do a special Halloween obstacle course and try to build Frankenstein. During guidance we learned a new song about feelings. We had math today and we worked on tens and ones. We worked in our math journals and our new problem solving notebooks. We got to practice our friends of ten on the iPads with Mrs. Martino. Before choice time we had to practice how to be quiet on the rug. We came up with some good ideas to help us be quiet on the rug in the future.  At the end of the day we cleaned up to a Kidz Bob song. During choice time Miss Lloyd took pictures of us playing!

Grant, Philip, and Bentley being silly playing with Mr. Potato Head!

Payshence, Cedar, and Kacie working hard on a 100 piece puzzle!

Josh was building with pattern blocks!

Bryson and Owen sharing Toby's Coloring Book!

Miss Meghan helping facilitate a game of Candy Land with Charity, Storm, and Zayah!

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

Mrs. Lacasse from Samuel Morey spent the morning with us! We worked hard during math on tens and ones. Mrs. Lacasse taught us how to play tens pyramid. We had fun at recess playing hunting. We had Spanish for the first time with Cedar's mom, Comfort and students from the Mountain School. We learned how to count to 10 in Spanish. It SNOWED today which we found very exciting!!!!