What We Have Been Up To.....

First things first!  ECERS is over!  They came to our room yesterday and I think we did great!  As a teacher it is such a relief to have this behind us.  Tomorrow will be our Valentines Party!!  The kids are really excited!  We are having ICE CREAM SUNDAES!!! 

I wanted to share a picture of Nicholas' Journal for yesterday!  He was very proud of himself and I love that!!!

This is a journal about this family!

Also, I have a few videos to show you of some pretty creative stuff!!!  Enjoy them!

Parent Conferences!

Parent Conferences are still a go!  Please check your emails for conference time information!!!

Cute Pictures I couldn't pass up!

Are these not the cutest pictures you have ever seen!  I loved the.  They were enjoying one of lifes special treats.....a cupcake!  Stay warm and cozy folks...it's cold out there!

Happy Birthday Megan!!!

Today is Megan's 5th Birthday!  How neat to have your birthday on Groundhogs Day. 

In other news we have been working on Graphing!  I love making graphs we graph about everything in this class!  Well, one of the items that I have to check to see if they know is does technology affect our way of life.  So we did a graph "CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT A CELL PHONE?"  I loved seeing how some of them said no, so cute!  So to follow it up I wanted to see if they felt you could live without water so we did a graph "CAN YOU LIVE WITHOUT WATER?"  well apparently you can live without water and without a cell phone....who knew!?!?!?!?



HOW COOL IS THIS????

Last Friday during our PE time the 5th grade was in the gym to watch a presentation.  Since we were in thy gym they asked up to watch the presentation with them.  Little did we know we would be the stars of the show!  5 of our students were called up to have basketballs spin on a straw they were holding in their hands.  Is that not the coolest thing ever.  Jaylen, Porter, Annalise, Naina, and Collier stole the show!  I had no idea this was going on since I don't go to pullouts with them and I was so excited when I found out!!  I had to share!

CHECK IT OUT!!!!

Little Hoot Family Clinic call 501.GET-WELL

Our tool center has been transformed into our very own Little Hoot Family Clinic.  The kids are having a ball using all the pretend Dr. things.  We have been having some kids out sick during this time of year and they love thinking they made that person well, by being at their clinic.  HAHA!  Melissa's dad is a doctor and was gave us some pretty cool things to use in our office.....hats, boots, masks, and the list goes on.  We have an appointment book also that they use to see who is needed in the clinic.  If I start feeling under the weather I will know where to go.  You wouldn't believe how many teachable moments are in a dramatic play center.....writing, language, social, math...!   Here is a pic of Melissa playing like her dad!!



Journals!!!!

This week we started Journals!  The kids LOVE it and so do I.  They get to come up in groups with me and write about anything they want to write about.  We start by writing our name at the top of the paper.  They try to "write" words by sounding them out, when they are finished then they illustrate what they have said.  I want to share a few each week!  Here are some wonderful ones from this week.

Megan wrote about a Princess named Belle!

Melissa wrote about a good Dinosaur!

Will wrotw abouto SNOW!!!



Sabrina wrote about her family!!



Didn't they do a super job!!!  I love it when kids figure out how to sound out words!!!!