Sunday, April 29, 2012

An Exciting Week

We are learning a lot in our Non Fiction book clubs!!  We have learned that deer do not lay eggs that they have their babies live, that dolphins can swim fast with help from the wave, that some bees are green, and that honey bees don't sting.  We also learned what seals eat.  Lots of interesting stuff!!!  We will finish up this unit by creating a poster to go with our topics!!  I will be sure to post pictures of those!!
 
Thank you so much for those of you who were able to participate in special persons day!!!  The class was very excited to have a special person to share their reading skills to.  Here are a few familiar faces from the day:
 
 
 



Surprise Mail:  Remember to start asking friends and family to write a note to your child to open on surprise day.  Our Surprise Day celebration is May 25th.  You can have them mailed to the school with attention to Mrs. Gilde and your child's name on it as well.  The address is:  107 E. Maple Street, McBain, MI 49657.  This is a really fun day and students are really surprised when they open their mail.  Last year I even had a little girl cry because she felt so lucky to get mail from her grandpa.

Sunday, April 22, 2012

Great Week!

This group is resding about horses.
We had a great, normal week finally!!!  We started our non-fiction book clubs and are learning lots of things from them already!  Here's a peek at the clubs working hard reading and discussing their topics:
This group's topic is deer.


This group is reading about dolphins.
These students are learning about seals.
Bees is the topic this group is reading and learning more about.
I can't wait to hear all the learning that these groups will be sharing about their different topics.  If you ever are in the classroom, be sure to stop just outside the door to read our COOL, GROSS, and WOW board.  It's filling up with all kinds of things we have been finding and learning in our books.  Our class topic is severe weather so we will be learning lots about this topci too!!

Mileage Club has started up once again and are we ever excited about it!!!  Some of us have already earned some big tokens.  Analiese earned a 20 toe for running 20 miles and Nathan earned a Runner Dude for running 16 miles.  I have a feeling that someone is going to earn a marathan shirt, don't you???  Mrs. Kelley is still need of volunteers if you are able to help out.  Please contact her directly if you are able to do that.  If you would like to help her and would like to make a day of it I would love your help the rest of the day:) 



We celebrated a couple of Birthdays this month.  Regan and Michael both turned 7 this month.  Neither one of them believed that they were older than me.  I guess I can always try again next month.


Special Person's Day is this Friday.  Please be sure to turn in your form if you haven't done so.  I am all set on cookies.  Thanks so much for your willingness to donate them!!  Remember to make sure that your special person doesn't arrive before 1:30.  The door will be closed and they will be asked to wait in the hallway prior to this time.  It makes it hard for us to do things inside the classroom otherwise.  Thanks for your understanding.

Surprise Mail:  Remember to start asking friends and family to write a note to your child to open on surprise day.  Our Surprise Day celebration is May 25th.  You can have them mailed to the school with attention to Mrs. Gilde and your child's name on it as well.  The address is:  107 E. Maple Street, McBain, MI 49657.  This is a really fun day and students are really surprised when they open their mail.  Last year I even had a little girl cry because she felt so lucky to get mail from her grandpa.

Thursday, April 12, 2012

Welcome Back!

I hope everyone had a great spring break!!!  I did!  We took our girls to Disney for the first time!!  It was 5 days full of princesses and warm weather! 

I'm glad to be back though to some routine!  We didn't have much of that last month with reading month and report card assessments. 

Here are some pictures from last month.  I don't have a camera for my classroom so I have to rely on my memory to bring my camera from home.  Well, you can about imagine how often I forget it!!!  I did a lot.  Just this past week I had an aha moment!!  I can use the camera on my phone!  So, there aren't as many pictures as I had planned on taking but here are a few:
Kahli reading in the aquarium


Michael

Regan