May 19, 2009

Hello everyone! It has turned out to be a pretty warm day!

Unfortunately, Seniorita Wesley was out again today for jury duty :-( Hopefully, she will be back tomorrow! We have our fingers crossed!

We started off our day with our dialogue journals, and word study sort. The green group definitely has a hard sort this week so don't be discouraged!!! Students then met on the carpet for morning meeting, which we discussed some ways we are going to be good during the day and how we will treat eachother.

As a class, we went into writing. About 1/4 of the class has finished their autobiographies, and we hope to have them done by tomorrow so we can celebrate on thursday! To help with the writing process, we changed up Daily 5 a bit today. they had 3 options to choose from: 1- Continue writing their autobiographies. 2- Word study speed sort. -or- 3- Read at your seat. Many of us decided to get farther ahead on our autobiographies!

Then Mrs. Keefer came in and read us a new story- Arthur Babysits! Tomorrow we will listen to the story again, and on Thursday, we should be able to respond to the story in our reading response journals! Also, Miss Wesley will be reading the spanish version to the a few friends who are usually with Miss Wesley tomorrow and they will respond in spanish!

Lunch was once again in the multipurpose room and it was very noisy in there!

We went outside for recess, and WOW did it get warm out compared to this morning!

We came back inside, and did a read aloud- If Mouse Went to School. This was a funny story!

After this, we did math. Miss Wesley's side is still playing different ways to get to 25 cents, and the kindergarteners learned a new game! We had 10 buttons in a cup and hid some under it and we counted the ones that were outside the cup to figure out how many were under the cup! After that, we played a quick game with addition facts in 2 teams.

Have a great night!