Dr. Seuss' Birthday

This coming Friday, Feb28th, we are going to celebrate Dr. Seuss' 110th Birthday!  His real birthday is Sunday, March 2nd, but this is such a fun day for the students that I decided to celebrate this wonderful writer a couple of days early!  We will be wearing our PJ's to school and doing all sorts of fun work with Dr. Seuss books this week!  Today we started the week off by reading and talking all about The Lorax! 

In writing today we wrote about how we could help save the trees, just like the Lorax was trying to do in the story!  The students loved making their own little Loraxes to go on the top of the writing page!  Tomorrow we are going to read Horton Hatches an Egg!

 

 

Valentine's Day and Snow Make-Up Days

We had a blast on Monday celebrating a late Valentine's Day!  The student's did an awesome job decorating their Valentine's Day boxes!

 

As of right now, the only make-up day for last weeks snow days is changing the early release on March 7th to a full school day!  I will let you know if there is any other information about this!  Fingers crossed for no more snow days!

100th Day of School

 We had so much fun on the 100th Day of School!  We made 100th Day of school necklaces and hats as well as did a lot of math and literacy work using the number 100!

Listening to a book about the 100th Day of School

We read 3 books about The 100th Day of School and the kids really enjoyed them!  We read "Happy 100th Day!" by Susan Milord, "Fancy Nancy, The 100th Day of School" by Jane O'Connor, and "One Hundred Hungry Ants" by Elinor J. Pinczes.

  

 We did some writing about having One Hundred Dollars!  It was so funny to see what the kids said they would buy!  A few of those things included remote control cars, remote control rockets, houses, beautiful dresses, cats, dogs, cakes, Ipads, Iphones, and skateboards with helmets and pads!  I always love hearing what their creative little minds come up with!

 Then I let them draw a picture of what they think they are going to look like when they are 100 years old!  Almost all of them gave themselves walking canes, glasses, gray hair, and a few of the girls gave themselves Grandchildren and Grandbabies! 

 

 
This student made sure to let me know he drew himself very close to the T.V because older people can't see very well anymore!  

 

 

 

We had such a fun day and I am very thankful to have been able to teach my sweet angels for the past 100 days!  It's looking like our Field Trip will be rescheduled once again due to the weather so as soon as we know what day it is rescheduled to I will let you know!  Snow, Snow, go away!!!  Everyone stay safe and warm and I'll see you soon, hopefully!

Snow Days

I hope everyone has been enjoying the snow and staying warm!  Just wanted to give everyone an update on our field trip that was scheduled for Tuesday, it has now been rescheduled to Thursday, February 13th!!! 

Penguins

We have been reading and learning a lot about Penguins over the past week to go along with all the chilly temperatures we've been having!  We read Tacky the Penguin, Tacky and the Emperor, and then a few Non-fiction informational books about penguins. 

 

 The kids have really loved reading all about Penguins and I'm excited to show you some of their hard work that they've completed about penguins!

 

 

 

 

Hope everyone is staying warm!  As of right now the field trip for tomorrow is still on but if there are any changes I will make sure to let you know ASAP!  Thanks so much!

Don't Forget...

We do not have school on Monday or Tuesday!  Monday is a Holiday, Martin Luther King Jr. Day, and Tuesday is a Teacher workday!  See everyone bright and early on Wednesday!

Happy New Year!

We are back!!!  And, have been very busy already in room 1412.  We sent home information about our upcoming fieldtrip in students' folders last week.  We are very excited about our trip to the NC Museum of Natural Science!  We have also been very busy this week with our mid-year assessments!  However, we have still been able to sneak some fun writing activities in with our reading this week!  Monday we read Snowmen at Night by Caralyn Buehner. 

 This cute story tells what snowmen do at night while we are all asleep!  They do things like drink hot coco, have snowball fights, play baseball, and go sledding!  The kids loved it!  After reading the story we wrote about what we think our snowman would do at night if we built one!  The whole lesson and assignment turned out really cute! 

 

 

We also completed a cute project this week for our IB unit about maps!  We read Me on the Map by Joan Sweeny which is about a little girl who maps out her whole life starting in her bedroom, then her house, followed by her street, town, state, country, and finally planet. 

 After reading this cute book we mapped out our own lives and they turned out great, too!!!

 

I hope everyone has been having  a great week and staying nice and warm in these cold January temperatures!