Zachary Finds Some Swimming Creepy Creatures

We kept practicing and practicing our reader's theater. (Jayden)
We found little tadpoles (or something) outside and brought some in to look at with our magnifying glasses. (Preston)
We played sparkle this week for the first time this year! (Grace)
We wrote letters to fairytale characters. (Virginia)
We were supposed to have a fire drill today just for practice but we think it was cancelled because it started raining. (Connor)
Dallia lost two teeth two days in a row while she was brushing her teeth!(Will)
EOG's were this week but they are finally over! (Dallia)
We read our reader's theaters to our book buddies. (Caroline)
Next week we are going to take our EOQ math test. (Emily)
When the EOG's were going on this week we could not go to the front playground so we went to he back and for specials we went to the media center to watch reading rainbow! (Helen)
Today for math we worked on some time word problems. (Ford)
We decorated our pictures of fairytale characters. (Michael)
We shared some more Flat Stanley's this week. (Jacob)
Eleven Flat Stanley's have been shared so far. (Jayden)
Yesterday we had our compliment party. (Emily)
Mrs. Douglass might come visit us on Tuesday and she might bring doughnuts for us! (Connor)
I think the things we found on the playground are baby salamanders. (Michael)
We made up a new game called "Guess my State." (Ella)

Annoying Gnats...

In music we watched part of a video about Nursery Rhymes. (Connor)
Only 17 more days of school left! (Michael)
We had a gnat problem in our classroom so the man from pest control came to take care of it; we found out that they were coming from the plants outside our windows. (Virginia)
We are learning about fairy tales. (Grace)
Yesterday Mrs. Tuohy came as our mystery guest. (Marie)
Tomorrow night is May Fest! (Luke)
Saturday is the Fun Run! (Emily)
We asked our mystery guest a bunch of questions. (Will)
Mrs. Tuohy brought a nurses jacket and a stethoscope. (Calloway)
We reviewed our 3-D shapes today. (John)
Mrs. Tuohy helps the Ronald McDonald House. (Michael)
We are doing a summertime countdown! (Caroline)
We finished our fairytale book reports today. (Calloway)
Today for phonics and word block we played Cherry Pie! (Emily)
We had a word problem for morning work that had my name on it! (Preston)
I got unpacked and started my morning work in just 3 minutes this morning! (Hampton)
For one of our stations we are doing Read the Room and all the words are written on sailboats. (Helen)
Zachary and I both lost our teeth on the same night this week. (Virgina)
Virginia read her tooth tale this morning. (Patrick)

Playing Scoot, loosing teeth and writing to our pen pals!

Today we were supposed to go to art but we actually got to go to P.E. (Connor)
Today we finished the math game called SCOOT! (Virginia)
Today we read the letters from our Pen Pals and then wrote one back to them. (Calloway)
My tooth came out! (Hampton)
For our spelling test today Mrs. Ziegler used one of our challenge words to give this sentence: "Last night Jackson was running around the house as if he were insane!"(Ella)
Almost EVERYONE finished their rain forest animal research project. (Helen)
I get to take the tooth journal home! (Dallia)
Today is Whitaker Spirit Day. (Virginia)
Today we had a minute math test. (Luke)
We have started SpellWell. (Hampton)
We had inside recess today. (Marie)
For minute math some of us got huge papers with a lot of problems. (Michael)
There are only 21 days left of school! (Ford)
Next Friday is May Fest! (Caroline)
Inside recess ROCKS! (Jayden)
Last night was the talent show and my sister was in it. (Helen)
Ford's minute math test already had the answers printed on it so Mrs. Mowad had to make him a new one! (Ella)
On our minute math test Mrs. Ziegler accidentally gave us 15 extra seconds! (Zach)
Ford lost the lid to our old estimation jar so Mrs. Ziegler got a new one for us today.(Luke)
We tried to blog this morning but Blogger was not working!(Patrick)
Today is my Pen Pals birthday!(John)

Question for Parents:

Have you ever had a pen pal? If you have, who was it and how did you know them?

Flat Stanley and Pizza...

Ford's Flat Stanley came back from Snead's Ferry, NC. (Calloway)
We are tracking down where everyones Flat Stanley is going. (Connor)
Ford's Flat Stanley was held by a girl with shades on. (Patrick)
Today I brought peppermints in the Estimation jar and then passed them out at the end of the day. (Michael)
Will's Flat Stanley came from Chicago with a shower cap from his hotel! (Emily)
We went to P.E. and had a good time when we played with the parachute. (Dallia)
This afternoon I finished my animal research project and then started a new report about a three-toed sloth. (Caroline)
Will had a picture with Flat Stanley laying in bed and the caption of the picture said "chillin out, watchin' ESPN." (Preston)
We did a Venn Diagram about who liked pepperoni or sausage or both on their pizza. (Calloway and Chase)
The game we played in P.E. was called Swamp Monster.(Ford)
Our word wall words are; eyes, once, off, said and under but we only did one word today and it was eyes and we did the roller coaster cheer with it. (Helen)
Today I finished my animal research project and then started learning about the blue tongued lizard and the komodo dragon. (Patrick)
Our challenge words are; insane, airplaine and mundane. (Ella)
I got stuck to the wall with soap! (Will's Flat Stanley)

Question for Parents:

Do you like pepperoni, sausage or both on your pizza?

May 4th...152 days of school!

Wow! Five months since our last blog summary. Today was Mrs. Ziegler's first day back after her maternity leave. This is what we have been up to...

We went on a field trip to the Natural Science Center in Greensboro. (Preston)
Today we had P.E. (Calloway)
We went to see a play called Click, Clack, Moo! (Patrick)
We have been learning about the Rain Forests and we are each doing a research project. (Helen)
I get to go to see Mrs. Tevault every day now! (John)
Mrs. Douglass was our subsitute while Mrs. Ziegler was gone and she did lots of fun things with us! (Hampton)
On her last day, Mrs. Douglass got the estimation jar right and she was so excited that she encouraged us to give a really big and loud cheer! (Caroline)
Today in P.E. we played kick ball. (Ford)
We went to see the kindergarten play last week. (Grace)
We all sent out our Flat Stanely's and we are waiting anxiously for them to return. (Emily)
Today In math we did Skillboard! (Jayden)
Today in writing we worked more on our animal research projects. (Calloway)
Today we learned about a flower that can grow 3 to 4 feet wide. (Micheal)
I learned that the three toed sloth has one extra neck bones. (Ella)
I learned that the basilisk lizard can run on water. (Hampton)
I learned that the boa constrictor can make it's mouth bigger. (Jacob)
At the end of June school is out! (Dallia)
The golden poison dart frog can kill about 20,000 mice! (Marie)