Countdown to Winter Break!

Last week we hot chocolate and candy canes for our Polar Express day. (Connor)
We saw the third grade musical called "Humbug". (Virginia)
Last week we only had one outside recess because it was so cold! (Chase)
There are twelve more days until Christmas! (Ella)
Today we played Cherry Pie by skip counting by two's. (Marie)
Today we went to the library. (Ford)
Today in our classroom we heard and told the Gingerbread Man story. (Michael)
We sang a song called "Ringo, Rango, Tingo, Tango". (Grace)
I lost a tooth and I get to take the tooth journal home with me today. (Calloway)
At library we acted out the Gingerbread Man but it wasn't the exact same the one we read in the classroom. (Helen)
We are learning about fact families. (Dallia and Micheal)
Our word family is the "ate" family but we don't have to do them at home for spelling homework. (John and Jacob)
We worked on a sequencing worksheet for the gingerbread man during writing time. (Hampton)
School is almost over for the day! (Calloway)
It snowed last night. (Ford)
In four more days we will have a school sing-along. (John)
Today in morning meeting we continued our countdown til Christmas. We only have four more days of school before winter break! (Michael)

A brand new month..

We have been very busy lately, so busy in fact that our blog keeps getting bumped off the schedule. Here are some of the things we have been busy doing since our last blog...

We got our first letters from our Pen Pals. They live in Hendersonville, NC. We wrote a letter back to them and we are waiting anxiously for a new one from them.

We learned all about Thanksgiving, pilgrims, indians, and the Mayflower.

We learned about telling time to the hour and half hour on an analog clock.


And just recently...

Today we had a mystery guest, it was Mr. Lindell.
Michael lost a tooth in the library!
This week we are learning about money.
We already have had three star students of the week.
Grace is our star student of the week.
We have a Christmas tree in our classroom!
We are making something special teacher around the school.
We learned a song called "The Money Song"
There ar eonly 24 more days until Christmas.
Today was the 65th day of school.
A nickel is thicker and fatter than a penny!

More updates to come soon!:)

Another Great Week!

Our schedule was a little bit different today but we got everything done that we needed to. (Connor)
Today we got our first letter from our Pen Pals. (Hampton)
We have time to do a blog today! (Marie)
Today in art we painted our pictures. (Michael)
On Monday we are going to write back to our pen pals. (Dallia)
It is the 55th day of school. (Calloway)
Chase was our first star student of the week. (John)
We had to pack up early today so we could get everything done without having to rush. (Helen)We started a new math sheet as part of our daily morning work. (Ford)
Today for the estimation jar we had a jar full of nerds and Preston let each of us have a box. (Preston)
We talked about Pilgrims this week. (Chase)
We did geo-board shapes in math stations. (Jayden)
We started meeting with our math buddies from fifth grade last week.(Virginia)
For math stations we did geo-puzzles. (Ella)
Today we finished our pilgrim boy and girl puppets that we used for shared reading. (Caroline)
Today in math stations some people finished their pilgrim math. (Michael)
We also played shape concentration in math. (Helen)
The third, fourth, and fifth graders had career day today. (Emily)
We finally learned the poem about Uncle Ugbee. (bus riders)
We took a spelling test. (bus riders)
Our schedule was really busy but it looks like it was short. (Helen)
We finished our W.W.W. books for the week!(Ella)

Testing Week!

"We went to the book fair." - Connor
"We did our writing test and our math test." - Jacob
"In computer we played subtraction action." - Hampton
"We finished our math test in one day today!" - Virginia
"This is our first time blogging in eight school days." - Dallia
"Today we had computer for our special." - Helen
"I got a book for my dad at the book fair!" - Ella
"We had snack at the end of the day today." -Marie
"In computer we got to print." - Grace
"In computer lab we got to go on Kid Pix." - Chase
"We got a new a student last week and his name is Chase!" - Virginia
"We went to our learning stations today." - Jayden
"One of our acorn seeds started sprouting." - Patrick
"I got the tooth journal two times in a row!" - Will
"We got to move the estimation jar to a higher number." - Preston
"We still haven't done the song about Uncle Ugbee." - Emily
"Our Fitness Field Day is tomorrow and today's estimation jar was full of pennies!" - Helen
"Calloway can only wear one tennis shoe because she broke her ankle when we went to the apple orchard." - Grace
"We had inside recess two days in a row." - Hampton

Our first blog in 14 days!

"We learned how to subtract with our brains." -Jacob
"This is our first time blogging in fourteen days." - John
"We are keeping two larva's as class pets so that we can see what happens to them." - Patrick
"We went to music today and we played instruments." - Dallia and Michael
"Luke brought in the estimation jar today. " -Virginia
"I think the two larva's are actually baby grubs." -Hampton
"We only have one more person for star student." -Helen
"We tried to out-sing Mrs. Matyi's class with the Noun Song and we think we won!" -Emily
"Marie was our star student today." -Ford
"Today in writing we practiced our o's again." -Michael
"We went on a field trip last Thursday. " -Preston
"We lost a student because she moved to New Jersey." -Calloway
"We solved subtraction word problems about pumpkins." -Jayden
"Today for the estimation jar we had acorns." -Helen
"I thought there were eggs on the acorns." -Luke
"We went on the black top for recess." -Marie
"Will lost a tooth this week!" -Everybody
"We finally got our Word Wall up!" -Virginia
"We made a house for our class pets." -Dallia
"Today was Patrick's birthday." -Everyone
"There were 19 acorns in the estimation jar." -Jayden

Mr. Ziegler (Charlie) came to school today. (Virginia)
Today we went to music for our specials. (Jayden)
Today we went on the blacktop for recess. (Helen)
Tomorrow we will have stuffed animal day because we earned our first compliment party! (Emily)
We worked on our flower flip books. (Will)
We finally got to our blog this week. (Marie)
Yesterday we showed 29 cents in several different ways. (Michael)
We talked about tornado drills and then we had one! (Ford)
We cheered and chanted our word wall words but did not have time to put them in our w.w.w. books. (Virginia and Jayden)
We wrote about the events of a story in our retell glove. (Ella)
We got a new book for the overhead station. (Virginia)
Today we had math stations. (Helen)
Today is the last day of September. (Virginia)

T.G.I.F, Septeber 24, 2010

Today in writing we worked in our Retell Glove books. (Michael)
Today Jacob was the star student. (Patrick)
We had art today. (Will)
We went to math stations and I got to "organize" numbers. (Jayden)
We had our spelling test this morning. (Virginia)
Today me and Dallia went to the overhead station and we looked in a book for certain words. (Helen)
We checked our math homework this morning. (Grace)
The number in our estimation jar today was 17 and it was full of cotton balls. (Marie)
We are excited about the Auction that we will have next Friday. (Emily)
We are also really excited about the new student we will get on Monday. (Ford)