Halloween Fun

     We are having lots of fun spreading the Halloween fun throughout our curriculum.  We can't get enough.  We have been writing up a storm and I'm seeing improvement with each piece.  Children should know what a sentence is, start them with capital letters, and end them with punctuation.  We will be working more on when to use a question mark in the upcoming weeks.

     We played lots of math games.  Smash it subtraction was a huge hit.  Students walked around the room looking for subtraction sentences.  They then used play-doh to build and smash to find the answer.  Super fun.

     We played both an addition and subtraction game with these fun erasers.

     We have also been making fun fact families with halloween cards.

     Bats have been a hot topic this week.  We painted bats using some of our million paper plates.  We will make pumpkins with more plates tomorrow.  We charted our opinions of bats and read both non-fiction and fiction books about bats.  We even gave Miss Sarah and her dad homework tonight.  After reading Stellaluna, Miss Sarah told us that she and her dad LOVE that book.  The students were writing whether or not they thought the birds and bats would remain friends so we asked Miss Sarah and her dad to write their opinions as well.  I can't wait for everyone to share their thoughts tomorrow.  

     Here is a photo I wanted to share last week of our class being invaded by Creepy Carrots.  

  

   I promised the students I would post these pictures from last summer.  They can explain.  What do you think about this bad?  Creepy or cute?

     We will be having our Halloween party/parade on Friday.  Remember to send an extra snack for  your child and his/her costume to school.  Next Tuesday, Nov. 3rd is election day and NO SCHOOL. Please mark your calendars.  

     

     HAPPY HALLOWEEN!!!!

Moving Along

     Middle of October already!  Can you believe it?  We are moving right along in first grade. (I  know the title of this blog still says second grade, I'm going to leave it that way for a while simply because it's a lot of work to figure out how to change it and I just do not have the time.  I'm sure you all hear that.)

     I haven't had a chance to introduce to Miss Sarah.  Sarah Kenton is a high school senior/track star who helps out in our class from 11:30 to 12:30 each day.  It's fantastic to have an extra set of hands and she's invaluable in giving students a little extra help they may need to get through a lesson.  How lucky are we?  She is awesome.

     We have been reading up a storm and I cannot believe how far we've grown already.  I hope you are taking time each night to read with your child.  It makes a world of difference.  You reading aloud or him/her to you, it's all good.

     Students have been super busy.  We've been adding by counting up.  Ask your child to explain how they circle the largest number and use their fingers to count from there.  It's working like a dream.   Next stop, subtraction.  I hope it goes as beautifully.

     We learned about Christopher Columbus and made maps of our wing of the school.  Students made fact webs in groups of an animal and have been doing lots of writing.  I'm so proud of them.

     Halloween is sneaking up on us.  What is more fun than Halloween to a child?  The excitement is exhausting contagious and I will tap into it to motivate our little ghosts and goblins.

     Here are some pictures from the last few weeks.

reading CVC words (consonant, vowel, consonant)

sorting short vowel words

reading CVC words with a friend

dice rhyming game
(rhyme at home)

-at word search

     I hope to write again soon......BUSY, BUSY, BUSY