Saturday, January 7, 2012

David Shannon

While reading this story, we focused on making predictions. We were surprised at why she had all the stripes in the first place.
Reading David Shannon Books!

Friday, January 6, 2012

Math This Week

The class web page has the math newsletter for this new unit Measurement and the Number System.
We also solved some tricky pattern word problems!
We learned two dice addition games. We talked about the math strategy of COUNTING ON. If I rolled a 5 and 2, I could count starting at one, or I can start with 5 and add 2:6,7. Counting On is a quicker way to add two numbers together.
Today was the 80th day of school. The Queen of Ten came for a visit! We figured out that it is only 20 more days until the 100th day!!!!!!!!!
The Queen of 10 had us figure out the missing numbers from her cube stick. 3+- =10, 6+-=10 and 1+_=10
She gave a special homework assignment to make 80 things in the number 80. We talked about recording 40 in the number 8 and 40 in the number 0. She encourage students to make groups of ten and change the color for each group. If your child had a half day we forget to pack this sheet. I will send home a sheet this weekend in an email.
She had us count by tens with a math tool called an Acabus.

Dancing with Ms. Fyvie

PE class this week! We had so much fun learning about dancing.

Wednesday, January 4, 2012

Snow Globes

The snow globes are on display!
We loved listening to the story The Snow Globe Family!

Friday, December 23, 2011

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Art in Action!!

The H brothers

This poem helps us remember the sounds of the H Brothers Sh, Wh, Th and Ch!

Raz Kids

Today in folders you received an informational sheet about Raz-Kids. The PTO was extremely generous in buying a subscription for Bates school. This is an online library of exciting reading material. KC teacher's username is mclancye each child had picked a picture password which is on the newsletter. Happy Reading!

Wednesday, December 21, 2011

Art Project Calendar

We were excited to bring home our calendars today! Everyone did a beautiful job with this project. We hope you enjoy. Happy 2012!

Mexico

What we think we know about Mexico and questions we have about Mexico.