Sorry it's been so long!

It has been a while since I have updated my blog and I want to apologize.  I didn't think anyone was reading it, so I stopped updating it because it takes a while to do.

So, here is an update from February.  We welcomed our student teacher Sarah Sluiter.  She is fitting in well.  We also jumped our hearts out for jump rope for heart.  We raised $11,000!!  Thanks for supporting this cause.

We also celebrated Valentine's Day on the same day!  It was busy for sure.  Here's a look at some of our Valentine boxes!  They turned out great!!

Last week we celebrated 100s day.  I found an app for my ipad called Old Fart Photo Booth.  You can take any picture and add years to it.  So, I gave all the kids a glimpse at what they would look like 100 years from now.  It was entertaining for sure!!!

We also made some capes to wear with 100 things.  I will have to post those later.  My ipad needs charging and the pictures need to be uploaded.....technology....ugh!

Next month starts reading month (actually next week).  We are doing a Dr. Suess theme this year!!  Be looking for notes and special celebrations to be coming home throughout the month!

More November News

Here's an update for the past few weeks.  November is such a short month.  It kind of got a way from me.

We celebrated a few birthdays.  Henry and Isabel both had birthdays this month.

We also learned a lot about Native Americans and enjoyed a lot of fun activities having to do with Native Americans.  We made a Native American and wrote about what our names would be if we were Native Americans.  Here's what they look liked:

We made our own butter and cooked pumpkin bread in the crock pot.  Boy, was it ever delicious!!  After this, we wrote the recipe for how to make butter!  While were were shaking the butter, we danced around to some of our favorite songs to help the time go faster!

For our Native American celebration, we made headbands and vests to wear.  On Native American day, we weaved placemats, made tepees, hunted and fished, and made corn bread muffins.  In the afternoon we feasted on corn bread muffins and popcorn.  We also enjoyed a couple of movies that showed us what life was like on the Mayflower.

We also talked about how the Pilgrims made quilts to keep them warm.  We talked about patterns as well and we all made a block with a pattern to add to a class quilt.

December will also be another busy month with lots of fun activities!  We will be making gingerbread houses, learning about reindeer and caribou, doing some Santa science experiments, and we wrote letters to Santa persuading him to send us an elf on the shelf for our classroom!!  Stay tuned....

Crazy November

We crammed a lot into this week!!  I think we learned a lot and had a lot of fun at the same time!  We are learning a lot about Native Americans.  Some of us are still trying to make the connection that they are the same as Indians.  We read a couple of books by Tomie DePoala - The Legend of the Bluebonnet and The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.  We also read a little article about Native American Powows and watched a little you tube video of one.  We made a project for the big bulletin board in the hallway based on The Legend of the Indian Paintbrush.  We drew some Native American words/symbols on a piece of buckskin (aka brown paper bag) and then outlined them with chalk.  They turned out great!!

We also made some ten turkeys.  We are working on learning the sums of 10 so we incorporated a little Thanksgiving in with our learning and made the cute turkeys!!  

If you didn't know this, we spend some time dancing in our classroom!!  We do this to get the wiggles out and get our brains ready to learn!!  Here are a few that we are dancing to this month:

A little Holiday fun!!

A few math songs

some reading songs

And some just plain fun songs!!

I am looking forward to meeting with you at parent teacher conferences.  Hopefully you received your child's report card on Friday with your conference note.  I have a couple of technology things that we are doing in class that you can be doing at home.  I can't wait to show you some of the apps we are using too!!

I hope that you have receive the note about parent pick up changes!!  Please note that this is for your child's safety and the safety of everyone!!  Starting next Monday, November 18th, if your child gets picked up, you will find them in the elementary lunch room.  I am no longer going to have students waiting at the office for you to pick them up.  ALL of my pick up students will be walked to the lunchroom by me.  Thanks for your support on this!!

Happy Halloween!!

We had fun in math this week with some patterning.  Some of us even wore our shirts with patterns!  Here's a look at what we did.

We had a great time at our Halloween Party!  I loved all the costumes!!  We were stuck inside all day because of the rain, but we survived!!  Here is a glimpse at what we looked like:

The scary costumes!

The critter costumes!

The super hero costumes!

The princess costumes!

The career costumes!

The cute costumes!

The whole gang!

Now that it's November, we will be learning all about the Native Americans and Pilgrims who started the holiday we call Thanksgiving.  We will also be learning about Veteran's Day!