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)

Tuesday, September 21st

We went to computers today. (Dallia)
We made a chart about living and non-living things. (Connor)
We learned about the differences of living and non living things by watching a slide show. (John)
We practiced writing two numbers in our number writing booklet. (Patrick)
We brainstormed "ap" words. (Luke)
We did science! (Annie)
For our science yesterday we went outside of the building and looked for living things and non-living things. (Helen)
Today's star student was Virginia. (Emily)
Three people have lost a tooth so far this year. (Ella)
We did phonics and word block. (Ford)
In computer we made a robot on the computer. (Michael)
Today was our first time using the ACTIVE board! (Caroline)
We played a comparing numbers game on the active board. (Preston)
This was our second day of science. (Jayden)
We went to learning stations today. (John)
We did the estimation jar for the first time. (Will)

A new addition to our class!

During our guided reading we went to learning stations. (Ford)
We played collect 20 together. (Ella)
We played the Great Wall of China for the first time in P.E. (Connor)
Yesterday and today Jayden was the Star Student. (Helen)
WE FINALLY GOT OUR ACTIVE BOARD PUT UP! (Marie)
Jayden finished being Star Student. (Caroline)
We added new words to our W.W.W. books. (Will)
The words were little, said, and of. (Will)
When we were doing our W.W.W. book the Active Board people came into the room and made a lot of noise! (Preston)
During morning meeting we figured out ways to make the number 14. (Micheal and Helen)
We read a book called Hooway for Wodney Wat. (Virginia)
I finished my Family Tree book today. (Annie)
I wrote a lot in my writing journal today. (Dallia)
We all wrote in our writing journal while the active board people were putting the board up. (Caroline)

Wednesday, September 8th

Our star student today was Helen. (Grace)
We read our social studies book today. (Emily)
We went outside to recess but it started raining. (Connor)
We read a book about how families are different. (Helen)
We talked about learning stations and we'll talk about them more tomorrow. (Jayden)
For our morning work we had to fill in the missing numbers on a hundreds board. (Ella)
We rotated tables during math and had to work with our group to put a new set of numbers in order at each table. (Virginia)
We wrote two new words in our w.w.w books, we wrote "yellow" and "green". (Michael)
We went to P.E. (Caroline)
We went on the playground three times during P.E. (Annie)
We also went on the nature trail during P.E. (Helen)
When we compared numbers during our morning meeting it was the first time that the first number was less than the second number. (Will)
Se blasted out our word wall words (yellow and green). (Helen)

Getting to know each other...

We went to the computer lab for specials. (Sarah)
It was our first day for star student. (Hampton)
We went to the front playground for the first time this year! (Helen)
We learned the Elmo the Elephant song and highlighted all the "e's" that made the short e sound. (Jacob)
We got to use offices for our math test today. (Virginia)
We got our writing journals and got to write our first entry. (Jayden)
This was our first day for our first test. (Ella and Preston)
During morning meeting we counted by ones, two's, fives, and tens. (Ella and Marie)
We had read-aloud and snack at the same time; Mrs. Ziegler read a book called "All About You". (Ford and Ella)
Mrs. Ziegler still has to change the sign on our schedule that says we will have snack with math. (Will)
Mrs. Ziegler was the star student! (Preston)
We read Goldilocks and the three bears so that we could learn about choosing books that are not too hard, not too easy, but JUST RIGHT! (Connor)
We counted to 100! (Jayden)

Question for Students: (parents please help your child respond by leaving a comment)

What is one thing you learned about Mrs. Ziegler when you interviewed her for Star Student today?

Our First Blog of the Year!

Grace lost her first tooth today during lunch! (Mrs. Ziegler)
We worked on our math scavenger hunt some more today. (Marie)
We went to the library and read magazines. (Preston)
At specials I checked out a non-fiction book. (Ella)
We wanted to do star student for the first time today but did not have the time! (Ford)
I raised my hand for questions. (Jayden)
We learned the Annie Apple song because it will help us remember the sound of the short a. (Jacob)
It was our first day to check out books! (Hampton)
We got to share our writing with each other. (Connor)
We got our SSR bags and folders today. (Virginia)
We followed a new schedule today. (Will)
I got a chapter book from the library. (Caroline)
We were the first class to check out books and we got to take home TWO! (Patrick and Ella)
We practiced the morning song some more. (Virginia)
We read "A my name is Alice" for read-aloud today. (John)
We picked out seven books for our SSR bags and got to read them. (Luke)
Mrs. Ziegler taught us how to keep the classroom library organized. (Annie)

Question for Parents:
Today we all wrote a little sentence that went like this "R" my is "Rachel" and I like "Reading." We would love for you to do the same thing. Please respond with a comment by writing "______ my is _________ and I like _______." Thank you!