25 Book Goal

Look who's met their 25 book goal so far this year...
Congratulations on your certificate and candy prize, we are proud of all your reading at home!

Star Students In September

We are so proud of all these students.... They have been following our REACH pledge this month by:

Respecting others
Excelling at everything
Accepting resonsibility
Cooperating with others
Having a positive attitude






They each got a fancy Star Student necklace, and got to go up to the front office to be congratulated by our vice principal Ms. West, who also gave them a prize!

Way to go Star Students in September!!

Weekly Homework - Week #7

This weeks skills words are high frequency and rhyming words.

1. come
2. down
3. away
4. no
5. will
6. at
7. cat
8. ran
9. an
10. man

Homework goes home today, and is due back next Friday. Have a SUPER weekend!

The Game of Double Compare

Here we are, playing the game of Double Compare. In this game, partners turn over 2 "dot" cards. Together the partners decide which pair of cards shows the larger total. They find these totals by either counting all dots, counting on, or using number combinations. Look at us hard at work! :)

Weekly Homework - Week #6

This weeks words are high frequency and rhyming words. Homework goes home today as usual, and is due back next Friday.

1. up
2. but
3. go
4. where
5. here
6. pig
7. dig
8. jig
9. fin
10. win

Have a great weekend!

Calendar Math

Each morning, since the first day of school, we have been practicing our "Calendar Math" time. During this time we talk about: the calendar, patterns, the weather, tally marks, graphing lost teeth, odd & even numbers, name and value of each coin, how to count coins, place value, and telling time.
This is a very important learning time we do first thing in the morning. Starting this week, we have allowed 1 student each day to "conduct" our morning meeting (with the teacher sitting right beside them). This is a great opportunity for each child to practice speaking in front of people, and they LOVE to feel like the teacher in front of their peers. When calendar math time is over, we let the student who conducted that day share something from home for a few minutes (like a stuffed animal or book etc...) then take questions or comments from their peers.

So far this week Destiny and Elona have done calendar math, and today it was Alex's turn. Here's what calendar math time looked like today...

Here is Alex "CHAMPING" before he starts.
Before we start ANY activity, we always "CHAMP" , which means we ask the class:
What is our Conversations allowed to be right now?
What do you do if you need Help?
What is our Activity right now?
What is our Movement allowed to be?
How will we know if you are Participating?

Alex is asking the class what is the name of this coin and how much is it worth...

Since it is the 22nd day of school, Alex picked Takara to come up with a way to make 22 cents using coins. The class is following along with her finger as we count 4 nickels and 2 pennies together...

Alex is leading the class in counting by quarters... "25, 50, 75, 1 dollar..."

He is asking which column in our place value chart we should put today's straw into...

He just went over the parts of the clock, what time it is, and now he is writing down the time the digital way...

Since Alex is now done with calendar math, he is sharing something he brought in from home... his build-a-bear named Brownie...

The students loved his bear and had several questions and comments for him when he was done.
Great job today Alex!
We are excited to see each and every student conduct calendar math this year! :)

Weekly Homework - Week #5

This weeks skills words are rhyming and high frequency words. The new homework goes home today and, as always, is due back next Friday. Have a great weekend!

1. get
2. what
3. we
4. will
5. are
6. cat
7. hat
8. bug
9. hug
10. rug