Banner artwork by local artist, Laurel Fulton Waters: "Red Barn Summer". Used with permission.

Wednesday, December 6, 2017

Week of December 4

I'm 





"I like rainbow weather".


'I can show teen numbers as ten and some more'

Fundations work.

Letter writing practice.







The big idea in Writer's Workshop: we are writing true stories with a beginning, middle and end. We are also working hard to make the reader feel like she was really truly there-one way to do this is to include who was in the story, where it took place, and what was happening. 


We have been 'collecting' weather words for a weather word wall. We use this chart to help our science journal work.



Tuesday, November 28, 2017

Week of November 27






















Meteorologists often use weather symbols to collect data about the weather.

We looked at lots of weather pictures and used weather words to describe what weather conditions we saw.




Week of November 13

Tallies help organize our counting. We can count on from 5!

We have been exploring tally marks and how they make our counting more efficient.

You Skills: The Zones of Regulation





The turkey is a funny bird, it's head goes wobble wobble. All it says is just one word GOBBLE GOBBLE GOBBLE!

The very beginnings of addition: Domino Parking Lot.

We can stretch out words to hear and record sounds.

FUNdations work.


Letter writing practice.

Feeling proud!



We have enjoyed a variety of Thanksgiving books to prepare for a wonderful Thanksgiving break.


Thanksgiving cards.

Our class filled the entire jar full of pennies (good deeds). We took a class walk down to the school container and celebrated all of our positive accomplishments by adding our pennies to the whole school jar.


It was a proud moment!


We are wild for words!

Especially sight words that we can read and write quickly!