February 4, 2020- Happy 100th Day of School!!

We had a fun filled day of activities celebrating the number 100! This morning, we counted by 10's in order to make a Cheerios necklace. We also participated in centers: build with 100 legos, build with 100 cups, use a hundreds chart to track how many licks it takes to dissolve a lollipop, paint 100 "gumballs" on a circle, and put the numbers 1-100 in proper order. We finished our day with a Starburst scavenger hunt!

Happy Groundhog Day!! (February 2nd)

January 21- Today, we used tens frames in math. It's safe to say that we LOVE them!!

1/13/2020- Beginning today, students will be bringing home a reader to read every evening at home. They are very short stories. The story for this week is "Hot, Hot, Hot". Please see the bag coming home today for more information.

1/9/20- Today, we began our math unit on addition. We practiced by counting fish! In science, we continued to learn about penguins and even painted a penguin!

1/3/2020- New games for indoor recess!

Happy New Year 2020!!

12/20/19- Class Christmas Party

12/17/2019- It's Grinch Day! We read "How the Grinch Stole Christmas" and completed several activities. I think that making a Grinch cookie was a class favorite. We also made cinnamon ornaments!

Continuing our candy cane science, we investigated how quickly a candy cane would dissolve. It happens pretty quickly!

12/16/2019- Today, we spent the day learning about candy canes! We learned about why they are so important at Christmas time and how they are made. We also made candy cane ornaments and hand print mints. The highlight of our day was when we were able to play with peppermint scented play dough (with red glitter of course!)!

We also began our week long candy cane science unit. Today, we investigated whether or not a candy cane sinks or floats.

Holidays Around the World

If you have not had the chance, take a stroll down our hallway and you will see our Holidays Around the World display. Students have created a craft/picture for each country studied: Mexico, England, Russia, Australia, South Africa, Italy, and Germany.

12/6/2019- We worked on several math concepts this week. We counted out various groups of animals and then compared them (greater than, less than, equal too). We also spent a lot of time on ten frames!

12/4/19- We published a book!

11/26/19- Thanksgiving Luncheon and Cornucopia Cookies

11/18-11/22/19 Our Week in Pictures

(Thanksgiving write the room, turkey cookies with the Junior-K class, watercolor painting)

11/19/19- Who's ready for a Roundup?!?

11/11/19- Glow Party for the 50th Day of School!!

10/31/19- We made bats to go along with our bat unit!

10/29/19- Candy Corn STEM project! We used our engineering skills to build a tower with only toothpicks and candy corn shaped marshmallows. Everyone concentrated and made great attempts at building the tallest structure!

10/28/19- Today, we worked together to separate like bones into groups. We used Cheetos Bag of Bones for this activity. This product contains cheese curls in the shape of skulls, ribs, arm/leg bones, and hands/feet. After all of the bones had been separated, students then graphed their results. What fun!

10/24/19- Today, we made informative posters with a partner after learning about how animals move in our reading unit. Posters had to include a picture of the animal and a sentence about how it moves. We did a really great job with this project. They are displayed in the hallway outside of our classroom.

10/23/19- We learned about the life cycle of a pumpkin today. We wrapped up this activity by performing a pumpkin seed taste test and completing a tally chart and bar graph with our class results of whether or not we liked the seeds. It was a tie! Five friends liked them and friends did not like them.

10/21/2019- We completed our first writing craftivity this morning. After discussing scarecrows and their job (to scare things away from crops), students wrote about what they are scared of. These turned out really cute and are on display in our hallway. Students had to follow multiple step directions in order to complete the scarecrows and crows.

10/16/19- What a wonderful Chapel presentation! I am so proud of everyone!

10/11/19- A huge THANK YOU to Mrs. Lull who visited us this morning. Mrs. Lull gave a very informative presentation about fire safety. Gavin even showed us his firefighter gear.

10/10/19- We had a surprise visit from Joppa Magnolia VFC this morning! We were able to climb through the firetruck and ring the bell. Mrs. Minarik was lucky enought to try on a fire fighter outfit. Tomorrow, we have a surprise guest speaker...can't wait!

10/8/19- We wrapped up ABC Bootcamp today and celebrated with Alpha-bits cereal. Students used the letters to spell their name and simple three letter words. So proud of this group for finishing strong and being able to apply the skills that they have learned throughout our school day!

10/7/2019- Today, we began our Fire Safety reading centers. To say I was pleased with everyone's work is an understatement! We began looking at three letter words and using our sounds to sound out the words. I was blown away with the work that I witnessed this morning! It is so exciting to see little faces light up when they realize that they have just read a word for the first time!! :)