What a week!

After the excitement of the bears and pajama day last week, we really exhausted ourselves with the winter rotations.  Everyday we went to a different class to make a snowman.  I'm sure you saw the "soup" and great paintings come home.

When we get back in January, though, we get back to work.  Our winter formal reading assessments begin right away.  We will be reinforcing some counting concepts and for science (drum roll).....

We will have a new class pet - meal worms.  They will delivered the first week we get back.  We will make them a home as we learn about what things animals need to survive.  We will be learning about the life cycle of the meal worm, too (as well as other animals).  Eventually, these meal worms will become darkling beetles.  Its not as bad as it sounds.  The kids love it.


Have a wonderful holiday season.

Gingerbread Week

We are all about the Gingerbread cookie this week - if only we were eating them.

We are reading different versions of the story, including the Gingerbread Boy, the Gingerbread Girl, Gingerbread Baby, and more fun and silly stories.  We are using gingerbread men to practice our measuring skills in math, too.  We will be making gingerbread houses for our friends, too.

In social studies, we are learning about landforms - mountains, hills, caves, and volcanoes.  After, that we will switch to bodies of water - oceans, rivers and lakes.

In writing, we are writing about true events in our lives.  We are learning about a beginning, middle and end to a story, how to add details to our pictures and writing, and about speech bubbles.

Next week, will be Teddy Bear week.  I will be sending a letter home on Thursday with details (they can bring a stuffed animal next week).  Another letter will go home later next week, about our Teddy Bear Picnic on the 16th.  Keep a look out for those letters.

Have a good week.

oops!

I just went to post an update and realized I never sent out our Thanksgiving picture with our pilgrim boys and girls.  Sorry for the delay.

Check out our Germs

We've been learning all about germs, washing hands and how to NOT spread germs.  Mr. Mohler, our school nurse, came to talk to us and we read lots of books including one about the Big Bad Wolf who blew down the three pigs houses.  Really, all he wanted was a tissue and he kept sneezing and blowing the houses down.  He wasn't try to hurt them.
This picture is our apple/germ experiment.  We put half the apple in a bag right after it was cut.  The other half was passed around so that everyone can touch and spread germs.  Can you guess which one has the germs?

We started writing narrative stories instead of informational books.  We are writing about stories that really happened to us - somewhere we went or did with friends or family.  We will be writing these kinds of stories through the end of the year.
In math we learned about more and less, longer and shorter.  We compared the length of our names with that of friends and some storybook characters with really long names like SkippyJon Jones and Tikki Tikki Tembo-no sa rembo-chari bari ruchi-pip peri pembo.

Have a great weekend.

What a crazy week

Between the election, one full day of school and two half days, its been a crazy week.

Back to normal next week.

We wrote another informational book in writing.  They are working hard on stretching out words and adding details to their pictures.  We read a lot of informational books, learning about fiction vs nonfiction.  We are finishing up a math unit on comparing the lengths of objects and using words like longer and shorter and we learned how a  number line can help us find one more or one less.  We also finished up our social studies unit on American Symbols (the flag, Statue of Liberty, Mt. Rushmore, bald eagle and the Liberty Bell).  Today, we talked about Veterans Day and what it means to be free.

We also had an assembly with three former Redskins players. They talked to us about teamwork and being respectful even when playing sports.

I'd like to thank everyone for coming in for conferences.  It has been shown that students do better in school when parents are involved.

Have a great weekend.

Halloween!!

We had a wonderful Fall Festival.  Thank you to Max's mom for the treats and mystery boxes and thanks to all those that helped and joined the fun.

Yummy treats!

Yucky Mystery Boxes with Monster Parts inside

The whole Crew

Upcoming Events

Along with Red Ribbon Week, Singer is having Character Week to teach the 6 Pillars of Character.

Monday, Oct 24 - Respect - Wear wacky or bright colors
Tuesday, Oct 25 - Responsibility - Dress like a superhero (no masks please)
Wednesday, Oct 26 - Caring - Wear a hat
Thursday, Oct 27 - Fairness and Trustworthiness - Wear wacky socks
Friday, Oct 28 - Citizenship - Wear our school colors, purple and white, or a Singer T-shirt


Monday, October 24-28 - Scholastic Book Fair.  Our class will visit and make a wish list on Monday the 24th.  The list will go home for your review.  If you choose to send in money with your student, please send it in a labeled envelope.

Friday October 28 -  PTA Movie Night - come join Singer and watch Peter Pan.

Monday, October 31 - Halloween parade and party in our classroom.  The parade starts at 2:30 but we will be changing into costumes at 2:15.  Anyone who can come at 2:15 can help get us ready.

Tuesday, November 1 - PTA meeting.

In our classroom, we finished up with the water cycle and switched to social studies to learn about American Symbols.  We finished our number books and will start a measurement unit.  We wrote a book this week about something we know a lot about.  I will share their writing with you at our conferences.  You will receive their progress report then, too.

Have a great weekend.