Wednesday May 4, 2010.

Today we started our day with making words in English. The big word was "butterfly". Today we did cut apart sentence for our dictados. For morning meeting we worked on writing our morning message instead of fixing Mrs. Helfer's mistakes. Then we did our daily 5 routines and finished early so that we could take a district math test. We went to Music and P.E and then came back to finish up Math. Second graders worked on reviewing 3 digit addition and solve a puzzle with the answers. Both classes got a "4" in lunch and after lunch we came back and listened to a biography on Neil Armstrong. We then worked on our second chapter of our own autobiography. Great writing took place in our room today.
On Friday, we will enjoy "game day" in the afternoon.
See you tomorrow.

Wednesday April 27, 2011.

Today was a very busy but very good day!!! We started our day with making words in English. The big word was "alligator". After making words we did day #3 of dictados. We had our break apart sentence to do. We had our morning meeting in English. Mrs. Helfer had writen a lot of mistakes in her message. We then had our daily 5 routines and started math before Specials. We went to Library and Art and came back to finish math. First graders worked on pennies, nickles and dimes. Second graders worked on making change with $5.00. We went to lunch and then went outside for a walk around the school to enjoy the nice weather. We came back to a read aloud on Barack Obama and Shakira. We began our unit on biographies and explored books that helped us learn about the characteristics of biographies.
Tomorrow we have P.E and Music so don't forget your sneakers.

See you tomorrow.

Monday April 25th, 2011.

Welcome back to school today!!! We hope you had a nice week off and a great holiday too.
Today we started doing our dialogue journals for our morning work and then worked on day #1 of dictados. We then had our morning meeting and jumped into our daily 5 routines. We read for 30 minutes today and completed the rest of the routines. We went to our specials(Art and Library) and came back to start Math. First graders worked on new math routines and on money. Second graders took a quick quiz and worked on making combinations of 25 cents. We then went to lunch and came back for a read aloud about Johnny Appleseed. We are starting the genre of biographies. After that we had a nice long block for writing. We finished our persuasive writing today. Don't forget that we have P.E. tomorrow...

See you then,

Monday December 13, 2010.

Today was another very busy day. We started our day with Making words in English for morning work. We had a morning meeting with Mrs. Stewart and then we started our Daily 5 Routines. After reading, we worked on Math. First graders worked on making 10's with sticks and ones with circles and second graders worked on learning three ways to solve addition problems with regrouping. We had PE and Music for our special and then in the afternoon we learned about the holiday Hannukkah. We were able to play the dreidel game and sample Latkes(potatoe pancakes) with applesauce and sour cream.

Tuesday December 7, 2010

Happy Tuesday today... another wintery day. We started our day by working on Making words in Spanish. Our big word today was: "amarillos". After that we had our morning meeting and then we had reading. We practiced using our schema to make connections with what we are reading. We worked on our daily 5 routine and then we went to specials. After specials we worked on Math. First graders worked on showing tens and ones using cirles. Second graders continue working on odd and even numbers and on estimating. After Math we had lunch and finished up math. We had a read aloud and while we were reading the story we were trying to find ways that authors show us not telling us emotions. We then used that strategy in our writing.

PS.A new calendar with the correct specials is being sent home today. Sorry for the confusion.

Monday November 8th

Happy Monday! Today in science we set up an experiment that will help us learn how seeds grow. We learned the science term for growing...germinate. We put pea, oat, corn, and bean seeds in a bag with a moist paper towel. We hung our baggies on the window and will now patiently wait for our seeds to grow! In math today the red rhinos worked on solving problems with unknown partners. We used equations and math mountains to solve these problems. The Green Gators worked on solving story problems with extra information and not enough information. In reading workshop today we had a minilesson on how readers read and think at the same time and how they use their schema to make connections between what they are reading and their schema. Ask your child to tell you what schema is! We also welcomed back Marcella today!

Wednesday October 20, 2010

Today the second graders had math in Spanish and the first graders had math in English. First graders worked with nickels and pennys. The second graders worked on measuring with centimeters. We did the daily 5 and most of us worked on reading for 30 minutes. We had a practice fire drill in the morning and we worked on handwriting. Gianni's mom volunteered for the first time today.

Don't forget the field trip to the fire house on Friday.