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| Chicka chicka boom boom will there be enough room? We love the book Chicka Chicka Boom Boom by Bill Martin Jr. and John Archambault |
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| "Give me a J... Give me an O... Help me cheer my name guys!" 2007/2008 |
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During the beginning of the school year, we learned a lot about the alphabet by working to recognize and spell our friends names. Everyday we picked a mystery name. We built their name with letter cards and chanted the letters like cheerleaders. Later, we drew a detailed picture of each person and practiced writing their name in a name book. We also worked in centers playing many fun letter games. |
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| I am working on spelling my name. 2008/2009 |
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| I never knew that making the letter H could be so cool. 2008/2009 |
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| Using alphabet blocks to spell is fun! 2007/2008 |
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| Here are some letters that are in my name and here are some that are not. 2007/2008 |
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| I loved my cookies. Yum ! Yum! 2008/2009 |
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These are pictures from Halloween day. Many of us dressed up. We paraded around the school. Later we, rotated through fun Halloween centers. The centers included:
Cookie decorating
Making puppets
Candy corn estimation
Building skeletons
We had many parent volunteers to help us with our centers.
We also, recited Halloween poems, sang scary songs, and read some great books. We wish Halloween was every day! |
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| Our Halloween parade was great. 2008/2009 |
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| We made skeletons. 2008/2009 |
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| Mr. Weigold joined the fun. Surf's up dude! 2008/2009 |
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| We loved Halloween! 2008/2009 |
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| It is important to be able to match capital letters to lowercase letters. 2008/2009 |
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In our class we follow a balanced literacy program. The students participate in literacy centers focusing on letter and sound recognition, reading strategies, sight word recognition, and various other language arts state standards. The students also participate in many whole group activities. The goals of these activities and lessons are to create kids who love to read and who have the knowledge and tools to be successful readers. We read many poems, sing songs, learn about words and of course have a lot of fun! The following pictures show you just a few of our recent literacy center activities! |
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| Here fishy fishy. Wait a minute. Those aren't fish! Those are letters! 2008/2009 |
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| What sound does ch make? I know a lot of words the begin with ch. So smart! 2008/2009 |
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| The listening center is always a favorite. 2008/2008 |
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| This is a big cell phone and we are texting our sight words. 2008/2009 |
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| In this center we have to read the number word, count out that many teddy bears and write the number.2008/2009 |
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Math centers are a very important part of our math program. The centers give extra practice for many of the math concepts taught in whole group lessons. Here are just a few of our recent holiday math centers. |
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| First we planned our pattern, then we built it. Mrs. Simmons said that we should make a really hard pattern and try to stump her. I think I can do it! 2007/2008 |
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| We really like to make patterns. We are good at this! 2008/2009 |
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| Watch me roll the dice and add the numbers. 2008/2009 |
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| At calendar time, we count how many days we have been in school. On every 10th day Zero the Hero comes to visit. On the 100th day he brought his wife Zoey! This is a picture from their wedding. Aren't they cute! |
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| During Thanksgiving, we made fancy turkeys for homework and then wrote stories about their adventures. 2008/2009 |
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We learn so much in our class. Every few weeks the theme we are learning about changes. |
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| When we were learning about the ocean, we read the book Commotion in the Ocean by Giles Andreae and David Wojtowycz. We also read Rainbow Fish by, Marcus Pfister and Mister Seahorse by Eric Carle. Then we made some cool crafts to match the books. 2008/2009 |
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| Ms. Schnepp our student teacher read a big book called Mrs. Wishy Washy. 2008/2009 |
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| We all took turns acting out the book. Some of us pretended to be pigs, cows, ducks, and Mrs. Wishy Washy. Here we are in the tub washing off the mud. "Wishy washy, wishy washy" 2008/2009 |
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| "Just look at you! In the tub you go!" 2008/2009 |
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| Wow, Mrs. Wishy Washy had to really scrub hard to get all the lovely mud off! 2008/2009 |
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| Mrs. Collins and Mrs. Lopez come in once a week to teach us some exercises. These are special exercises that help us relax and learn. 2008/2009 |
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In class, we exercise, sing, dance and get time to just play. |
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| Dancing gets our brains ready to learn! |
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| "Now lets think. What is our plan for building a bridge?" 2008/2009 |
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| Oh no, my tower fell! 2008/2009 |
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