End of January

As the picture below shows, the kids have really had a lot of fun during indoor recess this week. The lack of fresh air and running around time is tough, so I am hoping we can get out this week. Animal reports are nearly finished - the children worked very hard on them. I am going to type them, and on Thursday we will visit the computer lab to make covers for the reports on Print Shop. Speaking of computers, our technology integrator Haley Loiseau will be helping the students prepare a snowman video using KidPix. The completed video will be posted on the blog. Now that February is almost here, watch for information on Valentine's Day and Hundreds day - which are coming up fast.

indoor recess

January Freeze

OK, I wanted winter to return - but just a little bit warmer so we can go out and enjoy that new snow! We will be busy this four day week - writing animal reports and finishing up Reading Streets unit 2 and taking the reading assessment for that unit. We will be having spelling - watch for the words in the homework folders tomorrow.

January Thaw

Oh dear,what a dreary weekend! I hate to see the snow go, the kids had such fun at recess sliding down the snowbanks. I hope winter returns soon. As I mentioned last week, in science we are studying animals. We have learned six classes of animals, and characteristics of each. This week the kids will be choosing an animal to read and write about. Once the reports are done, we will be sure to share them with you. Our Reading Streets story was about triceratops this past week, hence the triceratops art project that you should be seeing come home this week. Show and Tell for January will be this Friday, January 18th. Have a good week!

January 6, 2013

Hi, Everyone, It looks like it is going to be a warmer week - so we will be going outside. Boots are really essential, and ski pants if your child wants to go on the playground or snow banks. We do not wear ski pants at the snack recess which is short, but we do wear boots. If you want to send in slippers or sneakers to keep at school for the winter, that might be helpful. It is a full week - so we will be having a spelling pretest on Monday, and the final test on Friday. Some students may get 5 extra words instead of 10 if they do well on the pretest. I notice that 10 is too challenging for some, even though they get all the pretest words correct. The pretest words tend to be easy because they follow a pattern. This week we are beginning a study of non-fiction animal books. After a few days of reading about animals in the books, and in the science book, each child will choose an animal to research and write about. Happy January!

Happy New Year

Back to school tomorrow! I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday. The snow was fun - I'm sure the kids enjoyed it. The cold weather will allow us to use some of the wonderful games, art supplies and play doh you contributed to our classroom. Thank you! I posted a slideshow of the Three Billy Goats Gruff. We had to reenact the play for the camera - but I did want to give credit to our actors. Due to the short week - there will be no spelling test this week. We will review the words, but there will be no end of week test. Math homework does resume however. Happy New Year!

Three Billy Goats Gruff

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