More Halloween Pictures!

We were able to go on a Halloween Hayride before lunch! Whee! What a blast! Then after lunch we enjoyed our Friday Guest Reader! We loved listening to him read two Halloween stories to us. Thank you so much for coming!

Guest Reader

This week, our guest reader read one of the Skippy Jon Jones books. We love Skippy Jon Jones! She read the background information to us so we learned about the author's daughter, too. Thanks for reading to us today!

Today's Guest Reader

Today Gus' Grandpa was our guest reader. The children loved learning more about Christopher Columbus and seeing where he traveled on the globe. Then, after learning about Columbus, Gus' Grandpa read a few of Gus' favorite dinosaur books. They enjoyed learning about the dinosaur with teeth as long as pencils, the dinosaur the size of a turkey, and more! Thanks for reading to us!

Five in a Row & Our Guest Reader

During Math, we played Five in a Row. With a partner, students took turns rolling two dice and finding their sum. Then, they would look on their game board to see if they had that answer. If they did, they covered it with a marker. The goal was to cover up Five in a Row horizontally, vertically, or diagonally. Some students were so quick, they had time to try to cover their entire board. We will spend more time on subtraction and story problems next week.

Today, Emma's Mom was our guest reader. We really enjoyed listening to her read two books to us. We were glad to learn about Rosh Hashana with Sammy the Spider! Thanks for reading to us!

Another Fun Friday!

This week we read Tumble Bumble by Felica Bond several times. We focused on rhyming words, action words (a.k.a. verbs), and sequencing the events of the story. Today, the children cut out each character and glued them in order on a sentence strip. Then, some students requested to make theirs into headbands.

Later in the day, during Word Work, we went outside with sidewalk chalk to practice our weekly words. It was fun writing on the sidewalk!

Today, Clarissa's mom returned to be our guest reader! We really enjoyed the stories she shared with us! We gave her a "firecracker" for reading to us.

Our day ended with Buddies with Mrs. Russell's 4th grade class. Today we created Venn Diagrams and discussed how each set of buddies were the same and different.

Fun Friday!

Wow, today was the best day we have had all year! We started off with another student losing his tooth! This time it happened during DEAR time while he was at the computer. He was SO excited! During word work, we used shaving cream to practice spelling our weekly words on our tables. Then, we took our giant jumprope with us during PAT time and the children took turns jumping. We also had a very special guest reader, a pirate! See the other entries for today to find out about the rest of our Fun Friday!

Our Guest Reader & Learning About Diez y Seis

We are so lucky to have so many wonderful parent volunteers! On Friday, we had our first guest reader! We really enjoyed his selections. He kept us laughing the entire time. We are looking forward to our guest readers each Friday after lunch.

On Monday, Clarissa's Mom came and taught us about Diez y Seis. She read us a story, we heard some festive music, and we each made a Mexican flag. Thank you so much for coming and teaching us! We used our flags for decoration at our Diez y Seis celebration last night. Thank you to all of the families who came and brought enchiladas. It was such a fun evenings!