Week 27

What another busy week! We've had the excitement of book fair this week. The children have really enjoyed getting books from the book fair. Nothing is better than the gift of a book. I'm really proud of our readers. They have been working hard and EVERY student is already reading on an end of the year kindergarten level or higher!

Our focus letter this week is Kk. Katy the Kangaroo helped us learn this letter. Our sight words were "little" and "said".

Our focus book was Oak Trees. The children are quickly identifying features in a non-fiction book.

We enjoyed some new word work centers this week too!

Using the iPad is always a fun thing to do too.

In math, we are continuing on with our addition word problems and working on factors of ten. Here are some new math work stations that we enjoyed playing this week.

In science, we began a unit on rocks. This has been a big hit with the class. We read about rocks.

We brought in rocks from home and found some on the playground. Then we wrote about their physical characteristics in our science journal.

We looked at fossils.

We were very excited to explore geodes!

In social studies, we started learning about landforms.

After learning so much about them, we created our own landforms. Aren't they incredible!

We also got to enjoy a visit from Ms. Phillips. She talked to us about rules.

Report cards went home today. Please remember to sign and return the yellow envelope. Have a great weekend!

Week 26

Welcome back from spring break. I got to hear a lot of stories about fun activities that happened over spring break. I hope you enjoyed this time with your child.

We came back to school on St. Patrick's Day. In all of my years teaching, this is the first time that the children have had school on this day. Normally, it falls during spring break. We read some books to learn about this holiday.

We had a review week in language arts. We did not have any new sight words, but we did work on "with" by using a St. Patrick's Day book. Here is our focus book this week.

You have probably heard, but we changed up our math rotations. The students now will daily work with the teacher. Here are some students working on rainbow factors of 10 with me.

Another day, we worked on filling out a +1 and +2 chart. Some students were eager to fill out the entire chart. Way to challenge yourself!

While the students are working with me, the rest of the class is doing other rotations. Here is a group working in their math journals.

Others are doing math work stations.

And the other group is working on the computer playing math games. We have been using Johnnie's Math Page. You are welcome to go to this free program at home Johnnie's Math Page

We began learning about Texas this week by singing a Texas Bingo song. We also watched a Powerpoint of the Texas ABCs. 

We learned about the six flags that have flown over Texas and we made the current Texas flag. We recited the Texas pledge.

The pecan tree is the state tree of Texas. We had fun making these pecan trees using Sugar Smacks as pecans.

We read some fun books about the armadillo and we learned that the armadillo is the small mammal of Texas. 

Then we used macaroni to make bands with our armadillo craft.

We learned that the bluebonnet is the state flower of Texas. We are starting to see some of these pop up here in Central Texas. We read this folk tale about the bluebonnet.

Then we painted some bluebonnets.

We had so much fun reading some Texas fairy tales. Some were very familiar stories with a Texas twist. We enjoyed comparing the Texas stories with the familiar ones. Here are some that we read.

Pajama day was so much fun! We are ready for bed after a fun day of playing hard!