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,