Thursday Jan 26 2011- Feeling

Good Morning Class

Today is Thursday January 26th.  WE have gym today and guidance.  We will also have lunch bunch today!  Tomorrow we are to have one of our parents come into class and demonstrate how to excerise through martial arts!  Our class is looking forward to the afternoon.

Our class today will be talking about feeling.  I wanted to take a quick survey about what our class knows about feelings. The trick is that they can not say the same thing as another student.  They also can not say happy, mad or sad.

Feelings
Carolyn-funny
Mya- excited
Emma-tired
Samantha
Jayme
Ben-surprised
Caleb- left out
Marshal
Ashton- scared
Gabe-
Isabelle-exhauste/angry
Ryan-frustrated
Samuel
Tate- frightened
Oliva
Mrs. Smith- jealous
Sommer-terrified
Joey- sick
Karysa
Cullen

I am going to revisit this feeling page to see if our students are progressing with our Second Step Unit!

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Teaching Blog Addict: Retelling Fairy Tales!

Teaching Blog Addict: Retelling Fairy Tales!: Stop by my blog to check out how we practiced retelling skills!

Will be adding to this shortly

Our 5 Senses

Our Class will begin the week with an introduction to their 5 senses.  I love this unit because there is so much to it.
Today the children began investigating their 3 of their 5 senses.  They investigated Hearing, Seeing and Feeling.  The goal of these three investigations was to pay attention to each sense individually.  The children were excited to work on both and the out come of each station was wonderful!



 Hearing: The students will be listening to a CD with different sounds and drawing/writing what sounds they hear.

 Tasting: The student will make have their taste buds exploding with different types of sauces to taste.  Which one will they like the best?

Can't wait for the class pictures of these!



 Feeling: The students will put their hand in a box that they are unable to see what is on the inside and they will pick on of the objects inside to feel and draw.  Each student will draw that they are feeling and try to guess what that object is.  A big thank you to Mrs. Vincent for helping out with this station today!

Seeing:

And up this week... Vowel Teams!

With all my searching and finding cute little videos on Vowel Teams- I have stummbled across the cutest video yet of Vowel Teams.  A big thank you to
A Teeny Tiny Teacher!

I will be sharing this as an introduction to vowel teams with the class this week.  Our class has really been working hard on decoding, decodable words and this is another phoneme to add!  Have fun watching it and over the next few weeks talk to your children about this!

OMG- Progress Notes

Oh my goodness after a very slippery ride into school, our reading incentive book kick off, and our math test I spaced!!! I forgot to pass out our progress notes!

I said goodbye to the kids! I sat at my table and looked at the piles of papers and noticed the progress notes right there! So please look for them on Tuesday! Have a great 3 day weekend!

Silent E Parent Information

Dear Families


I just found this great website that has a great description of what we have been learning in class.  Please take a few minutes to read from this blog.  There are also worksheets that you could print out from home to help practice with this concept.  Our class has been working on Silent E for a few weeks now but could always use a little practice at home.  


Silent E Information and Worksheets too!!!!


Have fun!  If you have any questions please let me know!

New Years Resolutions from our Students

Happy New Year to All!

Happy Happy New Year to all!  Our Class had celebrated the New Year by writing our New Years Resolutions.  Wow did these turn out great!  Some of the kids ideas are going to be a little hard for them like...

... staying in bed until Mom and Dad wake up!
... cleaning up all my toys everyday!
... going to bed when it is bed time.

The kids have really tried to come up with an idea that they can stick to!  Lets see if they do!