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)

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)