First Weeks of School!

We had a very busy first 2 weeks of school! Take a look below to find out more about what we worked on.

The first week was our transition week and the students attended school 2 days and completed work online the other 3 days. Here is our focus wall for the week. 

 We learned how to treat our classroom materials and learned through play. 

We practiced our cutting skills as well as our gluing skills. 

We also practiced being a 3 star colorer (color in the lines, fill in the white spaces, and using appropriate colors). 

We learned about our school "Bee" rules- Be Safe, Be Respectful & Be Responsible. Our P.E. teacher, Mr. Doyle, explained what they each were as well as how we can demonstrate them. We learned about tootles (something students can get for positive behaviors), class trophies (rewards for positive behaviors as a whole class) and PAX (our good behavior program that we use). 

We took a tour of our school and learned about where everything was!

We did a walkthrough of our lunch routine in the cafeteria so we knew what to do when it was lunch time.

We worked hard in our Journey's Reader's Notebooks.

As well as in our math workbooks. Students can complete the homework pages at home but don't need to turn them in, it is just for extra practice! 

We worked hard on our iReady lessons too!

We practiced reading our letter books.

We listened to and read lots of books/songs about pumpkins and Halloween.

We were so happy to get to play outside on our playground! 

Last Friday, October 23rd we had our groundbreaking ceremony for our new school buildings! 

They will take 2 years to build it and it will be ready in fall 2022. We love getting to watch the construction, it is so exciting! 

Week of October 26-30 Focus Wall

Spirit week was this week. 

Monday was Crazy Sock Day

Tuesday- Superhero or Prince/Princess Day

Wednesday- Hat Day

Thursday- Team Jersey Day

Friday was costume day! 

The teachers in our "pod" were inspired by the book "One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish". 

We dressed up as one fish, two fish, red fish, blue fish, old fish, new fish, happy fish, rainbow fish and just keep swimming. Mrs. Garrabrant was the "red fish". 

We did a directed drawing of a pumpkin. Students followed my step by step directions to draw their pumpkin and we will put them out on our bulletin board!

We did a fun color mixing experiment. Students were given a plate with paint on it in a ziploc bag. They mixed the red and yellow paint together to make orange! We are going to make them into pumpkins but they weren't dry enough on Friday so we will finish them next week!

Our PAX mentor, Mrs. Phillip came to visit our class this week and talked about being a PAX leader. We talked about PAX (good) choices and spleems (negative behaviors), PAX voice levels and PAX quiet.

We did a fun Halloween activity with Cheetos bag of bones. Students sorted the bones by type; skulls, ribs, arms/legs, hands/feet. They graphed how many they had and then they got to eat them, yum!

We also labeled the parts of the skeleton.

We took the insides out of our pumpkin! We talked about what it felt like and smelled like.

Once we separated the pulp and seeds, we counted the seeds by covering hundreds charts. 

We had 459 seeds in our pumpkin! We also measured our pumpkin using cubes. 

I cooked the pumpkin seeds and the students tried them, some of them liked them and some did not!

We completed our pumpkin investigation paper about our pumpkin. 

This week we learned through some fun Halloween themed workstations.

Practicing stamping sight words and making a sticker story.

Recognizing letters and matching upper/lowercase, lacing strings through uppercase letters. 

Using pumpkins as non standard measurement to measure different objects and record answers.

Putting numbers in numerical order to reveal a Halloween puzzle, tracing numbers, making a pumpkin number book, and using a scale to measure items.

Roll a pumpkin activity and using tens frames to show numbers. 

We worked on the letter Aa and it's sound this week so we practiced reading our letter Aa book. 

We also read a pumpkin book that included our sight word 'see'! 

On Friday we had a costume parade around the school. 

It was so much fun and the students enjoyed seeing everyone's cool costumes!

We started reading the story Charlotte's Web together as a class. 

We have been reading one chapter a day and the students are enjoying it so far!

The students loved playing outside this week! 

We have enjoyed getting to watch the construction of our new school building!

I sent home a paper this week with our Specials schedule for this year for your reference.

I will also be sending the November Reading Log home this week. Students color a turkey in every time they read 15 minutes (or someone reads to them). Then when they turn it in completed on November 20th, they will get a coupon from Pizza Hut through the Book It program. 

I am looking forward to another great week and meeting with you all this week for conferences to discuss your child's progress.