Fire Station Visit

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Conference Slips

Parents, I just wanted to give you a heads up that conference slips came home TODAY. I am so thankful for the emails I received from a few helpful parents reminding me that I somehow missed getting the slips in the Friday folders. They went home today on white paper. I would greatly appreciate those back tomorrow or Wednesday at the latest. I apologize! Thanks for the emails!

Donuts with Dad

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Friday Folder Heads Up

Happy Friday! Today your child is bringing home their first progress report. I hope you have a chance to curl up and take a moment to look this over with your child. It is important that you praise your child's accomplishments. Equally important is to review areas where your child needs to grow. It is important that you and I work as a team to help your child become successful in all areas! If you have any questions feel free to send me an email or call. I appreciate your continued support! Have a great weekend!

Fire Safety and other fun!

We had some hands on learning last week when the Walker fire fighters came to talk to us about fire safety and show us their awesome fire truck. It truly is incredible how much they can do with their trucks! The students made many contributions to our discussions and answered their questions knowledgeably. I was proud of them!




Here we are sporting our neckties and necklaces!

Nice neck-wear!

We made "the" headbands to celebrate learning how to read and write THE famous word! (We say it's so famous because it is in almost every sentence!)

Rhyming Resources

Next week we will begin focusing on the skill of rhyming. Below you will find links to engaging sites to stimulate your child's ear for rhyme. Any practice they can do would be helpful.

http://www.professorgarfield.org/Phonemics/introCharacters.html
http://teacher.scholastic.com/activities/bll/reggie/index.htm
http://www.getreadytoread.org/games/game2/index.html
http://funschool.kaboose.com/fun-blaster/games/game_kazounds.html

Apple Explorations

We had a busy week learning all about apples! The kids were engaged and interactive in each learning activity. We read some non-fiction books to help us gain new understanding about apples. We learned an apple poem and put our cutting and creativity skills to work when we illustrated the poem. We stretched our investigative and math skills while predicting, comparing, measuring, and weighing the apples the kids brought to school. We really got into the learning when we did our taste testing, too! Here are some pictures of all our hard work.

Observing and measuring how tall our apples were with our math cubes.

Here is the weighing station to see just how heavy our apples were.

Comparing different sizes, shapes, and colors

We even measured, "how many apples tall" each child is! I have a great book idea, I just hope I get it put together. :)

Lots of good counting skills, 1:1, and comparing going on!

And finally the long awaited....TASTE test!

It is difficult to see by this picture but each child picked their favorite flavor and then wrote their name on the apple. We revisited the graphing skills we have been working on it math to show our class preferences. {drum roll, please......} Yellow was the winner!
We also re-visited a previously taught writing strategy of labeling. It came in handy when labeling our apple pictures. We completed one together as a whole group and then the students spent time making their own in the draft books. I was very impressed!

Fun, hands on learning is the BEST way to learn! Thank you for all your support and donations to help get this year off to a great start!