Valentine's Day Activities!
Sunday, February 27, 2011
Pictures!
Week of 2-28
Hi Families! Hope your weekend has been great! So excited that March is here!! I am sure a Spring person! The best news of all lately though is our move back to the building! YEAH!!!! I have been putting off a few of the things I normally do in hopes of getting back to our room. The portable is just not big enough for certain activities. :O The children have been working so hard and getting along well. I've also noticed such a helpful and kind attitude towards each other. I'm so proud of them! We will be doing our space habitats a week or 2 after Spring Break. Now that we will be back in the building, we can do them all at the same time instead of a couple groups at a time. Whew! That will be so much easier! This week, we will be practice testing again. We will do the math practice test on Monday and the reading practice test divided between Tuesday and Wednesday. The following is a look at what else the week will hold:
Read Across America Week - The children should have brought home a list of fun ways to dress to celebrate Dr. Suess and the week! We will be doing a Reading BINGO card this week. The BINGO card will consist of various genres of books I want the kids to read. Here are a few examples: Biography, picture book, Dr. Suess book, nonfiction book, Robert Munsch book, joke book, poetry book, tall tale, etc. They will be doing assignments with these various books as well. We will also start a contest against Mrs. Herbel's class called March Madness! This is like our Superbowl Challenge that we did in January except with basketball! Go Corderman's class! We can do it!! On Friday, we will have our Read-a-Thon! Your child should have brought home an envelope and information to collect donations for this event. Our class would sure like to be the top collecting class so that we can win a water balloon fight against Mr. Rainey! I told the children to ask parents' employers or their churches to donate. Every dollar counts. Remember, the money earned goes to our school playground. We will be having a Read and Feed on Friday for our Read-a-Thon, so the children may bring some treats to eat, as well as some comforts from home....blanket, pillow, and a stuffed animal.
Math - Long division, Geometry, Continued Review - I am so very proud of how far the kids have come with regards to retaining what we've learned! We are finally getting to the point of almost everyone getting a "C" or better on our cumulative reviews! That's awesome!
English - Online Storybooks
Social Studies - The children will begin learning about the Midwest Region of our country. This week we will look at the states in that region as well as learn about the landforms and resources. They will also begin an independent study covering important topics of that region.
Spelling - List 16 on spellingcity.com Enrichment words will be x,y, and z words. I will add them to spellingcity.com soon.
Read Across America Week - The children should have brought home a list of fun ways to dress to celebrate Dr. Suess and the week! We will be doing a Reading BINGO card this week. The BINGO card will consist of various genres of books I want the kids to read. Here are a few examples: Biography, picture book, Dr. Suess book, nonfiction book, Robert Munsch book, joke book, poetry book, tall tale, etc. They will be doing assignments with these various books as well. We will also start a contest against Mrs. Herbel's class called March Madness! This is like our Superbowl Challenge that we did in January except with basketball! Go Corderman's class! We can do it!! On Friday, we will have our Read-a-Thon! Your child should have brought home an envelope and information to collect donations for this event. Our class would sure like to be the top collecting class so that we can win a water balloon fight against Mr. Rainey! I told the children to ask parents' employers or their churches to donate. Every dollar counts. Remember, the money earned goes to our school playground. We will be having a Read and Feed on Friday for our Read-a-Thon, so the children may bring some treats to eat, as well as some comforts from home....blanket, pillow, and a stuffed animal.
Math - Long division, Geometry, Continued Review - I am so very proud of how far the kids have come with regards to retaining what we've learned! We are finally getting to the point of almost everyone getting a "C" or better on our cumulative reviews! That's awesome!
English - Online Storybooks
Social Studies - The children will begin learning about the Midwest Region of our country. This week we will look at the states in that region as well as learn about the landforms and resources. They will also begin an independent study covering important topics of that region.
Spelling - List 16 on spellingcity.com Enrichment words will be x,y, and z words. I will add them to spellingcity.com soon.
Tuesday, February 22, 2011
FYI
GREAT NEWS!!!
We will be moving back into the building soon! Yeah! We will be packing up and moving some of our things the week of March 7th. This is the same week of parent/teacher conferences. If you would like me to schedule you a conference, please let me know. I will be happy to schedule you one. If I don’t hear back from you, I will know things are fine. I know the children are as anxious as I am to move back into the building! Our room looks awesome. I will try to post some pictures, but you will have to try to stop by after Spring Break when we are finally settled in, to take a look for yourselves!
We will be moving back into the building soon! Yeah! We will be packing up and moving some of our things the week of March 7th. This is the same week of parent/teacher conferences. If you would like me to schedule you a conference, please let me know. I will be happy to schedule you one. If I don’t hear back from you, I will know things are fine. I know the children are as anxious as I am to move back into the building! Our room looks awesome. I will try to post some pictures, but you will have to try to stop by after Spring Break when we are finally settled in, to take a look for yourselves!
Sunday, February 20, 2011
Week of February 22nd!
Hasn't the weather been awesome this last week?!! Love it! Can't wait for Spring! The kids sure did awesome on their program! I was so proud of them and all their hard work! Here is the agenda for this 4 day week:
Reading - Leveled fiction dog themed books....many children have finished their stories and are now working on their climax project. Their fiction dog books should be finished by Monday, February 28th and the climax report is due by March 2nd. For those children done early, they may choose one of the dog picture books to read and do a picture book report. This second book and report are due for everyone on March 4th.
Math - We will finish up fractions this week and begin division. We will continue to review, review, review previously learned skills! I am so proud of how well they are doing in math!
Social Studies - We will finish up the Southeast region this week. The children did fabulous on their SE history presentations last week! They took notes over each other's information and we will test over that information on Thursday.
Spelling - List 15 on spellingcity.com I will announce spelling enrichment words on Tuesday.
English - We are going to spend a lot of time working on our stories this week. Some children have completed their rough drafts and have started to type their stories online. The goal this week is for everyone to complete their rough drafts! :)
Science - I have decided to postpone our geology unit for a few more weeks. The unit is so fun, but our experiments will do better with more consistent temps. They won't do well in real cold temperatures and our portables can get so cold at night. If the temperature stayed like it has been this past week, it would be great, but I don't look for that to happen! We will wait until after Spring Break! In the meantime, we will be doing some weather related topics of study for science!
The children have had wonderful behavior and integrity! Let's keep up the good work! I have not forgotten the space habitats! We will be doing them, but that too will be sometime in the Spring.
Reading - Leveled fiction dog themed books....many children have finished their stories and are now working on their climax project. Their fiction dog books should be finished by Monday, February 28th and the climax report is due by March 2nd. For those children done early, they may choose one of the dog picture books to read and do a picture book report. This second book and report are due for everyone on March 4th.
Math - We will finish up fractions this week and begin division. We will continue to review, review, review previously learned skills! I am so proud of how well they are doing in math!
Social Studies - We will finish up the Southeast region this week. The children did fabulous on their SE history presentations last week! They took notes over each other's information and we will test over that information on Thursday.
Spelling - List 15 on spellingcity.com I will announce spelling enrichment words on Tuesday.
English - We are going to spend a lot of time working on our stories this week. Some children have completed their rough drafts and have started to type their stories online. The goal this week is for everyone to complete their rough drafts! :)
Science - I have decided to postpone our geology unit for a few more weeks. The unit is so fun, but our experiments will do better with more consistent temps. They won't do well in real cold temperatures and our portables can get so cold at night. If the temperature stayed like it has been this past week, it would be great, but I don't look for that to happen! We will wait until after Spring Break! In the meantime, we will be doing some weather related topics of study for science!
The children have had wonderful behavior and integrity! Let's keep up the good work! I have not forgotten the space habitats! We will be doing them, but that too will be sometime in the Spring.
Saturday, February 12, 2011
Week of February 14th
Happy Valentines Day!! Hope you enjoyed the snow days!! My family sure did! We did crafts, cuddled under warm, fuzzy blankets, played in the snow, read, and just enjoyed a slow down! I am ready, however, for warm weather and a routine now. The agenda for this week hasn't changed much from last week. :)
On Monday, we will do lots of fun Valentine math activities. These activities will cover the concepts: coordinates, bar graphs, fractions, median and mode, estimating, probability, and analogies. We will also make our Valentine card holders and a special Valentine for our kindergarten buddies. We will meet with them to share our Valentines right before our party. Our Valentine party will be at 2:15. Fun Day!!
The rest of the week will find us catching up from missing so much school. We will finish up our SE partner projects and share our knowledge with the class as they take notes for social studies. In math, we will continue to review previously learned skills and work on our new concept, fractions. Did your child finish the math review sheet I sent home on Tuesday? Hope so. :) This might just be the miracle week to test on our List 14 in spelling that we started 2 weeks ago! LOL In English, we will continue to work on our rough drafts of our stories. I will give the children their codes this week, so they may begin to start working online. We will continue reading our dog books and hope we haven't forgotten the storyline. Ha ha! Last week, I talked to the children about what the climax of a story means. A few of the children have finished their dog books and have started on their dog project involving the climax of their story.
We will, I'm sure, be practicing a lot for our 4th grade program. Remember, the program is on February 17th at 6:30.
Also, don't forget that our SE states location test is on Wednesday, and our SE capitals test is on Friday. If your child has misplaced the studyguide I sent home, he/she may take home a SS text book to study.
The Ligers will get to have their victory reward for the Superbowl Reading Challenge this Wednesday.
Have a great week!!
On Monday, we will do lots of fun Valentine math activities. These activities will cover the concepts: coordinates, bar graphs, fractions, median and mode, estimating, probability, and analogies. We will also make our Valentine card holders and a special Valentine for our kindergarten buddies. We will meet with them to share our Valentines right before our party. Our Valentine party will be at 2:15. Fun Day!!
The rest of the week will find us catching up from missing so much school. We will finish up our SE partner projects and share our knowledge with the class as they take notes for social studies. In math, we will continue to review previously learned skills and work on our new concept, fractions. Did your child finish the math review sheet I sent home on Tuesday? Hope so. :) This might just be the miracle week to test on our List 14 in spelling that we started 2 weeks ago! LOL In English, we will continue to work on our rough drafts of our stories. I will give the children their codes this week, so they may begin to start working online. We will continue reading our dog books and hope we haven't forgotten the storyline. Ha ha! Last week, I talked to the children about what the climax of a story means. A few of the children have finished their dog books and have started on their dog project involving the climax of their story.
We will, I'm sure, be practicing a lot for our 4th grade program. Remember, the program is on February 17th at 6:30.
Also, don't forget that our SE states location test is on Wednesday, and our SE capitals test is on Friday. If your child has misplaced the studyguide I sent home, he/she may take home a SS text book to study.
The Ligers will get to have their victory reward for the Superbowl Reading Challenge this Wednesday.
Have a great week!!
Sunday, February 6, 2011
Week of February 7th
Hi Families!! Here is this week's agenda:
Reading - Leveled books with the theme being "Dogs".......We will work on finding the climax of a story with their books this time. The children will also read a picture book on dogs and do a summary and illustrations page on it.
English - Creative writing ......The children have started writing their own story recently. They are very excited about their stories! The best part is that they will get to put their story together with an online publishing company and get their stories actually published! Every child will get a free paperback of their published story!! Last week the children simply brainstormed and started writing. A few actually even finished their stories. Towards the end of this week, the children can start typing their stories. I will give you your child's password so that he/she can type at home as well. You can download actual pictures for their stories or scan their artwork or they can illustrate by using the online web tools and clipart. It is a really neat website and project!!
Spelling - List 14 Because of the 2 snowdays, I decided to postpone this list until this week. Enriched words will be "Q" and "V" words.
Math - The children did awesome with decimals! We are ready to move on to fractions and relate the two concepts once again. As far as morning math goes, I am very proud of how many children turned in their math review homework page! We have 2 teams......Team A and Team Z. As of this past week, Team Z is in the lead! The children rocked the classroom with their math review test on place value!! Wow! Everyone of the children got a C or better!!! That is awesome! This week, we will review multiplication and estimation. Look for a homework review sheet to come home soon. Please check over this page as your child works on it to check for understanding. There are 24 of them and only 1 of me and sometimes a child will just need a little one on one help to boost them into understanding.
Social Studies - This week the children will finish up their SE partner projects and present their new found knowledge to the class. ****Heads up****The SE locations and capitals tests will be coming up next week....locations on Wednesday and capitals on Friday.
Science - Our next unit will be geology..rocks and minerals! We will begin this unit in a couple of weeks. As for our space habitats, we will be doing them, but it will be awhile. I will let you know when. I am watching for consistent class and student integrity. It's been pretty inconsistent lately. They are really an awesome group of children. I totally ADORE them. But, between the weather, the portable, 4th grade boy/girl relationships (too young) and Valentine's Day coming up, many have been having a few issues. They will have to rise above it, however, to do the extra fun stuff though!! INTEGRITY - that's a biggie to me!!
We are getting ready for our 4th grade program. The program will be February 17th. It will be about Oklahoma musicians. Our class is in charge of decorating the front of the stage. If anyone has any ideas or can offer any help to do this decorating, I would greatly appreciate it! One idea could be to hang some pictures of Oklahoma singers like Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, etc. If anyone has any pictures to loan us, let me know. I thought about the project we did in the Fall, 5 Pocket People. Some of the kids did Oklahoma singers. They were really cute. I wondered about even using them. Please think on it and get in touch with me. Thanks!!
Reading - Leveled books with the theme being "Dogs".......We will work on finding the climax of a story with their books this time. The children will also read a picture book on dogs and do a summary and illustrations page on it.
English - Creative writing ......The children have started writing their own story recently. They are very excited about their stories! The best part is that they will get to put their story together with an online publishing company and get their stories actually published! Every child will get a free paperback of their published story!! Last week the children simply brainstormed and started writing. A few actually even finished their stories. Towards the end of this week, the children can start typing their stories. I will give you your child's password so that he/she can type at home as well. You can download actual pictures for their stories or scan their artwork or they can illustrate by using the online web tools and clipart. It is a really neat website and project!!
Spelling - List 14 Because of the 2 snowdays, I decided to postpone this list until this week. Enriched words will be "Q" and "V" words.
Math - The children did awesome with decimals! We are ready to move on to fractions and relate the two concepts once again. As far as morning math goes, I am very proud of how many children turned in their math review homework page! We have 2 teams......Team A and Team Z. As of this past week, Team Z is in the lead! The children rocked the classroom with their math review test on place value!! Wow! Everyone of the children got a C or better!!! That is awesome! This week, we will review multiplication and estimation. Look for a homework review sheet to come home soon. Please check over this page as your child works on it to check for understanding. There are 24 of them and only 1 of me and sometimes a child will just need a little one on one help to boost them into understanding.
Social Studies - This week the children will finish up their SE partner projects and present their new found knowledge to the class. ****Heads up****The SE locations and capitals tests will be coming up next week....locations on Wednesday and capitals on Friday.
Science - Our next unit will be geology..rocks and minerals! We will begin this unit in a couple of weeks. As for our space habitats, we will be doing them, but it will be awhile. I will let you know when. I am watching for consistent class and student integrity. It's been pretty inconsistent lately. They are really an awesome group of children. I totally ADORE them. But, between the weather, the portable, 4th grade boy/girl relationships (too young) and Valentine's Day coming up, many have been having a few issues. They will have to rise above it, however, to do the extra fun stuff though!! INTEGRITY - that's a biggie to me!!
We are getting ready for our 4th grade program. The program will be February 17th. It will be about Oklahoma musicians. Our class is in charge of decorating the front of the stage. If anyone has any ideas or can offer any help to do this decorating, I would greatly appreciate it! One idea could be to hang some pictures of Oklahoma singers like Toby Keith, Carrie Underwood, Garth Brooks, etc. If anyone has any pictures to loan us, let me know. I thought about the project we did in the Fall, 5 Pocket People. Some of the kids did Oklahoma singers. They were really cute. I wondered about even using them. Please think on it and get in touch with me. Thanks!!
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