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Penguin Math

As you may know, we have been studying penguins this week.  Our math centers today had penguin themed activities.

Mrs. Klema's group worked on counting by 5's.  They worked together to  put number cards from 0-100 in the pocket chart and then recorded their work.

I worked with the students on ten frames.  We use ten frames everyday during calendar time.  The students picked a penguin number cared, recorded the number on their paper and then filled in the correct number of spaces in the ten frames.  The video below shows the thought process they went through instead of just counting out the correct number of spaces.

Creative Kids

Choice time was extremely creative the other day. 

 Some of the boys had an awesome block city under construction.

This group of girls could spend the entire day drawing, cutting, taping and gluing!

                                      It's always fun to see kids being creative and imaginative.

Reading Groups

  I wanted to give you a look at the types of lessons we do during our morning reading groups....

     Garrett is blending sounds to write words on a white board.  For this lesson, I give the students a word card face down, I tell them the word and they need to write it on their white board.  We talk about "chopping up" the word into sounds before we try writing it.  When they have the word written correctly they get to flip over their card and check their work.  They like to see how many words they can do before time runs out.

       Jayden's mom helped us out at reading groups last Thursday.  She is practicing sight words with each student while they work on their "Winter Colors" books.   Sight word review is so important to helping the students become more fluent readers.

         In Taia's group, Mrs. Klema was reviewing "sneaky e" words with the students.  After highlighting all the vowels in each word, the students drew a picture to demonstrate they  could read the words.  They all did a great job on this lesson!

Mitten and Glove Graph

Here is the mitten/glove graph we did last week.  Your child should have brought home a page that they recorded information learned from the graph.  We graph the weather daily and then discuss what type of information we can get from the graph.  Smart Kids!!

Marvelous Monday

  I wanted to show you what our behavior clip chart looked like at the end of the day today.  We had our whole class on pink and purple!  We had a few students who had to clip down early in the day, but earned their way back up the chart.  Keep up the good work!

Happy New Year!

   I hope you all had a relaxing and fun holiday season with your friends and families.  I think we were all surprised to have two extra days added to our break.  Having a three day week to get back into our routines was great for all of us!
  I promised the class that we would still have a pajama and pizza party day sometime.  I'm thinking about doing it on the 100th day of school which will be in early February.  I'll keep you informed when I decide for sure.

                                               Check out the cool snowmen we made today!!

                                                   It was fun opening Christmas gifts in January!