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.