The Countdown Begins...

Today we had book buddies for the last time! (David)
Just three more days until summer! (Zach)
Today for phonics and word block we played "guess my word" with our word wall words. (Izzy)..
...the word was "live" (Anne)
In art we watched a movie about Under the Sea. (Caroline)
We got our last flat Stanley back (it belongs to George) and we read all the stuff that came with him. (Jordan)
We went to learning stations this afternoon. (Jane)
Tomorrow we are going to work on writing a friendly letter to a fairytale character. (Rosalie)
In the morning meeting Wodajo and Anne told us that they lost a tooth over the weekend. (Caroline)
George passed out Idaho Potato Pins that came back with his Flat Stanley. (Paisley)
We finally got to blog! (Jamey)
We read the Three Little Pigs and we had to highlight the word wall words and color the pictures. (George)
Zach got to share his tooth tale. (Jordan)
We ate snack while we finished the Three Little Pigs activity. (Keaira)
I made a domino effect that was so cool that Mrs. Ziegler wanted me to tell her before I knocked it down so she could watch! (Xander)

We're still here!

We have been so busy sharing Flat Stanley adventures over the past couple of weeks that we haven't had time to blog. However, we shared our last Flat Stanely yesterday and are anxious to update you on what has been going on in the classroom:

We were practicing our readers theaters and gave our performance yesterday! (Adam)
In P.E. today we did our African dance. (Jordan)
We only have 8 more days of school! (Zach)
We are talking about fairytales and this week we talked the most about Cinderella. (Anne)
Instead of going to music we went to P.E. because we had to practice for our P.E. performance. (David)
Next week we will focus on the Three Little Pigs. (Izzy)
Mrs. Ziegler almost tripped over the bag of fairytales and then she broke the bag! (Xander)
Genesis was our star student this week. (Genesis)
We took our spelling test today and it had all sorts of word families in it. (Jane)
We had to take our spelling test in the hallway because all of our word family charts are still hanging on the wall. (Adam)
Rosalie will be our star student next week. (Murphy)
We took our writing test on Wedensday. (Caroline)
Some people did not have to do minute math this week because they alread know all their facts. (David)
We finished our quarter math test by doing just a little each day. (Zach)
We are reviewing old spelling and word wall words. (George)

Question for Students (please respond with a comment):

What is your favorite fairytale?

Rainforest Fun!

Today we had P.E. and we played a game of tennis. (Jordan)

Yesterday our mystery guest was Paisley's mom and she brought s'mores! (Murphy)

Today we got our progress reports sent home. (Paisley)

In P.E. we played a game called "Dead Ant." (George)

Today in writing we started the rough draft of our animals research reports. (Izzy)

This morning we shared Murphy's Flat Stanley. (Caroline)

Yesterday we shared Jordan's Flat Stanley. (David)

This morning we got to watch a video about a lady who studies creatures that live in the Rainforest. (Jane)

The animals we are researching include: the tapir, tarantula's, boa constrictors, three toed sloths, the toucan, spider monkeys, the poisonous dart frog, the green basilisk lizard, the agouti, and the howler monkey.



Question for Parents:



What is your favorite plant?

Animoto Video of our Field Trip last week!

Hello Again!

Mrs. Durham came into our room and read us a book called Bully Beans. (Jamey)
We are working on a project that we're reporting on different types of animals. (Caroline)
Today in art we got to bring our posters home. (Jordan)
Today in phonics and word block we brainstormed our new word family. (Rosalie)
Last week we went in the strawberry patch and picked strawberries and even fed the animals. (Paisley)
Tomorrow we are going to start our research on animals in the rainforest and we will have to fill out a rubric that tells how many points we get. (Xander)
We did guided reading. (Keaira)
We finally got to do our blog! (Murphy)
At the strawberry patch we got to go on a hayride. (Mattie)
I can not wait until tomorrow because we get to find out our partners and we get to find out what animals we will be researching. (Zach)
At the strawberry patch there was a playground and there was a place under the ship that had a pole going up through the top of the ship. (Wodajo)
We read a book about the jungle called The Great Kapok Tree. (Julia)
We watched a video of Flat Stanley at the Leaning Tower of Pisa. (Mrs. Ziegler)

Question for Parents: (please respond with a comment)

What is your favorite rainforest animal?

What is your least favorite animal in the rainforest?

We love Balance and Motion!

We did science and we did math. (Keaira)
Today we had science centers and we got to share our stories about the circus. (Mattie)
When we did phonics and word block our two words were home and made. (Jamey)
Yesterday we got to do our very first science station and everybody at least got to finish their thing. (Jordan)
We had P.E. and we played soccer. (Genesis)
We had writing and we got to share our stories and we played "guess my picture." (Daniel)
At lunch Charlie brought Jackson! (Caroline)
In science stations the people who were in SSR had a lot of fun and learned that if we didn't have gravity we would floating up in the air right now! (David)
I got to show my two pence coin and it has Queen Elizabeth on it. (Jane)
For our morning work we measured stuff. (Adam)
In science stations I got to go the spinning tops and my favorite one was the laser top. (Paisley)
Mrs. Ziegler didn't know that some of the tops could draw. (Xander)
We are learning about fractions and we read a book about them. (Rosalie)
Yesterday in science stations our group looked at one book all together! (Zach)
In writing today we had our pictures up on the wall and the class had to guess which one we wrote about by listening to our elaboration. (Wodajo)
Today in math we played a game that helped us practice fractions. (Izzy)
Keaira used so much elaboration that we could guess her picture after just one sentence. (Paisley)

Question for Students:
(five cents in class cash to anyone who answers this tonight!)

How is balance and motion used in the circus?

Tuesday, April 27th

Anne played her guitar today! (Jamey)
In phonics and word block we chanted "next" and "fast". (Murphy)
This morning we didn't have enough time to finish our math lesson before specials because we were talking too much during morning meeting so we had to finish during snack. (Caroline)
We are learning about 1/2, 1/4, and 1/3. (Keaira)
We learned about fractions in math. (Izzy)
In recess some people in our class got to sign Adam's cast. (Paisley)
Today for our specials we went to library. (Jane)
We had science and we are going to start something that each person will need to bring a toy for. (Zach)
After school today some people have the science club. (Xander)
Today in writing we finished our circus stories. (Jordan)
At writing we wrote about the circus and we have pictures of the circus and tomorrow we have to share what we wrote and match stories to the pictures. (Wodajo)
Today we had guided reading. (Rosalie)
Other people who finished their circus stories before Tuesday got to do another one just for fun! (Zach)
This morning we shared where all of our Flat Stanley's went. (Caroline)
We are not allowed to bring an electronic toy tomorrow. (Paisley)