Vacation Prep!

We are finishing up some last minute things before we go on our 2 week break.  Nathan is painting a dough ornament we did last week, and Melissa is taking a reading test on the computer.  Tomorrow is our Christmas parties, and saying good byes to our friends until next year!  Some of us went Caroling today to the Extended Care Center.  We like doing this!  Have a great Holiday!

Door Decorations!

Wow...we had 4 students absent today!  That is a third of our classroom.  So, we did some reading, some editing and writing, and then we worked on our door decorations for the school contest.  Of course Teacher likes to make everything a lesson.  We counted days til break, until Christmas, we measured our elves, etc.  (She's a sly one Mr. Grinch!)...

Here is a picture of our Naughty and Nice list for Today, and also Some of our door decorating!   ENJOY

CHRISTMAS IS COMING

We may not have snow yet! We think this is very unusual.  We always have snow this time of year.  Anyway...we are all ready for a break, and we are starting to get into each other's business, and we like to argue lately too.  SO, we decided to create a "Naughty & Nice" list.  Our names will go in the category according to our behavior for the day.  OH...and we can go back and forth from nice to naughty to nice again.  Teacher will take a picture of the board at the end of every day, and reward those who have been on the NICE list more than the NAUGHTY one!   Guess we better be NICE for goodness sake!

AH...the best photo yet!

AH...THIS IS WHAT A WORKING CLASSROOM LOOKS LIKE!  Look at these terrific students working hard on their math facts!  GREAT JOB! 

Fun Learning...

How many pencils can we get in Autumn's ponytails?  TEN!  That was fun!

Josh is giving us a nice play-by-play of a book he read.  (This is the part where the man is "in love"!) 

We are still working on fractions.  We have also started a new handwriting...called Handwriting without tears.  We really like it.

We hope you enjoyed your Thanksgiving weekend!

Spelling Lists and Thanksgiving!

Spelling lists are coming home today! I have put a copy of them on here in case you don't see them.  We are on Lesson 6, Lesson 5 was this past week.  Spelling tests will be next Friday, 12-2-11.  WOW can you believe it will be December already!

Have a very wonderful, safe Thanksgiving. 

Introducing Ryin

Hi, my name is Ryin.  My favorite color is pink, but I also like blue and black.  I am in the 5th grade.  My favorite thing to do at school is writing.  I really don't like to do math at all.  I like to play football.  I am also Caillou's cousin!

The Wizard of Oz

This is the time of year the movie "The Wizard of Oz" is on.  Teacher and Skyler were debating where the basket was, on the "Wicked Witch of the West's" bicycle.  Skyler won!  He said on the back!  SO...while we were searching for some good pictures to help Skyler...we learned:

The lady, Margret Hamilton, who played the Wicked Witch of the West, was a school teacher before she was an actress.  Pretty cool, huh? We thought so too! 

Here some of us posed as the Scarecrow (Josh), Tin man (Hunter), and the Lion (Scooby-Doo).

Veteran's Day!

Our class would like to take a moment to honor all our Veteran's who have served, who are currently serving, and who will serve!  THANK YOU!  


Please remember we do NOT have school this Monday and Tuesday!  Spelling words went home today.  The test will be next Friday, 11-18-11.

FRACTIONS...

Hello....we have been learning about fractions...we have been having fun with them.  We can put things in 1/2, 1/3, 1/4, 1/5...etc.  We know that the bottom number is how many parts there are, and the top represents how many are colored.  (This is how much we have learned).  Tomorrow, teacher says we will be using cubes to show fractions.  HHMMM wonder how we will do this. 

Upcoming events:
November 14:  No School
November 15: No School
November 17:  Family Fun Night at the Roller rink! 

Reading-Phonics-Spelling!

We all work from the series..."Phonics for Reading".  We have lots of activities to do for each Lesson.  It takes us about a week to get through one Lesson.  We do phonics, spelling, and reading with each lesson.  On thing we like to do is the timed readings.  Teacher has us read to her for 1 minute.  We like to see how many words, from the story we get, in that time.  We might do this 2 or even 3 times in the week.  We like to beat our score!  Teacher also made sentence strips for each story.  We have to rebuild the sentences.  Autumn is doing one of the stories below! 

This is the front of one of our reading books.

Here Autumn is working on one of the stories.

Introducing Blake

Hi, my name is Blake.  I am 9 years old and in 4th grade.  My favorite color is RED!  (Sometimes it can be black!)  My faovrite thing to do at school is play outside for recess.  I do not like to miss recess either!  I really like to play my Play Station.  My favorite game is too violent for teacher to let me put on here!

Introducing Bruce

HI, my name is Bruce.  I am 9 years old and in the 4th grade.  My favorite color is blue.  My favorite thing to do at school is science.  I really don't like to do gym at school.  I like to play video games.  If fact, this is about all I do after school!  Teacher said I couldn't tell my favorite game, because it is violent!  My favorite cartoon character is Scooby Doo...so that is who I will be on here! 

Introducing Josh

Hi my name is Josh.  I am 8 years old, and in the third grade.  My favorite color is pink.  My favorite thing to do at school is reading.  I really don't like to do math.  And, I don't like spelling.  It was a toss up with spelling or social studies.  I was in 4-H.  In 4-H I showed a cow, and made a $100.00 off that cow!  I like playing with paper, you can make a lot of stuff with paper like; origami Yoda, Darth Paper!  I like to play on the computer.  I like snakes, lizards, turtles, and basically all reptiles.

School Wide Character Ed. Assembly!

Good Morning, Teacher here....today we had a school wide Character Education Assembly.  Autumn got to help present the Character Trait.  Then, to finish the assembly, we began our "Walk for Fitness" walking club.  Everyone in the school received Pedometers!  That was the real highlight!  Thank you to the Shriners for them!  Enjoy some pictures from our assembly!

WHAT??  Are you taking my picture!?

Smile big Autumn!

Autumn helping with the Character Trait.

Nathan and Skyler looking at their Pedometers

Another Classmate!

Hunter beginning the walk!

Blake just received his pedometer.

Melissa and friend watching their steps!

Introducing Caillou!

Hi, My name is Caillou.  I am 8 yrs old, and in the Third grade.  My favorite color is blue.  I really like to do computers at school.  I really, really like anything to do with the computers.  I don't like to get into trouble at school.  My favorite activity is Recess.  Today is Halloween, but we had our party last Friday.  Today was Mega-Party for our fundraisers.  One thing I really liked doing this year was making "smelly" pumpkins with Mrs. G our OT.  We made them with cinnamon, flour, glue, and cookie cutters. 
HAPPY HALLOWEEN!

Introducing Trent!

Hi, my name is Trent.  I am 8 years old, and in 2nd grade.  My favorite color is Red!  I really like gym at school.  But I really don't like reading or doing puzzles at school.  I really wish I was old enough to be out of school. 

Introducing Skyler

Hi, my name is Skyler.  My favorite color is puple.  I am 10 years old, and in 5th grade.  My favorite activity to do in school is doing puzzles.  I am really good at it too!  I really don't like to read at school, or home either.  Teacher sends reading homework home almost every night too!  Um, my favorite thing to do ever would be NO SCHOOL! 

Introducing Nathan

Hi my name is Nathan.  My favorite color is blue.  I like to do math the best at school.  I really don't like to do reading.  I am 10 years old, and in the 5th grade.  I like to work by myself.  I really like to watch TV, my favorite show is "Sponge Bob". 

When our work is finished!

One of our favorite things to do, when we have our work finished, is do puzzles.  Teacher says we are the best puzzle doers ever!  Sometimes we like to work together and sometimes we like to do a puzzle alone.  Here are a few of us with our finished puzzles. 

Introducing Hunter

HI my name is Hunter.  I am in the 4th grade.  My favorite color is blue.  My favorite thing to do in school is Math.  I also play Three back/Running back on our elementary school football team.  I have a game this Saturday, and I hope it doesn't rain!

Introducing Thomas

Hi, My name is Thomas.  I am in the 4th grade.  My favorite color is black, but teacher said to pick a different one to write with, so I picked dark red.  My favorite thing about school is playing outside for recess and do gym.  My favorite activity in gym is soccer.  My favorite thing I have learned so far this year in school is reading.  (And teacher says I am doing a great job!).

Introducing Melissa!

Hello, My name is Melissa.  I am in 5th grade.  My favorite color is purple.  My favorite subject in school is helping the teacher.  I also like to go out for recess.  I was a cheerleader for our elementary football team.  That was so much fun. 

Introducing...AUTUMN

Hi...my name is AUTUMN.  I am in the 4th grade.  My favorite color is pink.  My favorite subject in school is science, and I just finished a report on sea turtles!  I love to jump rope outside.  AND I love to read.  I like helping the others in my class read too!

Our butterfly pictures...

We really enjoyed having our butterflies in our classroom.  It was raining all three days they hatched.  Yes, they each hatched on a different day!  (Wednesday, Thursday, Friday).  SO, we let them fly around our classroom.  We had to put a sign on our door so everyone knew that the butterflies were "loose".  They mostly stayed on teacher's flowers, but sometimes they flew to the window.  They really liked landing on teacher too!  Here are some of us getting to know our friends a little better.  Oh...and if you ever get to see a monarch up close, see if you can tell the male and female apart.  (We know how!)