Golden Ticket Reward Day

This Friday, February 19^th we are going to have a Pajama Day as a reward for reaching our Golden Ticket Goal of 15 Golden Tickets!  As a class, we voted and the students choose a PJ Day as their reward!  I am so proud of my well behaved students and all they have accomplished so far this year!   

Way to go!!!

Valentine's Day Reminders...

This Friday, February 12^th at 1:15, we are going to have our Valentine’s Day celebration and exchange valentines with all of our friends.  I am asking you to send in one valentine for each child in our classroom.  We have 19 students this year and I have been looking around town and spotted some nice valentines at the Dollar Tree and Walmart.  However, if you are unable to send in valentines for your student to exchange, please do not worry.  Just let me know ahead of time so I can let them make them at school.  Thank you for all you do for our students, I really appreciate all you do to help us out!

Girls

Sally

Reese

Layla

Veronica

Krysta

De’Niya

Corinne

Tyana

Sydney

Gracie

Sophie

Boys

Oscar

Grady

Jaelin

Holden

Wilson

Lucian

Nicholas

Aiden

 

Happy Groundhog Day

We had a blast celebrating Groundhog's Day on Tuesday!

 We made our predictions....and then found out the majority of us guessed wrong and spring will be here soon!

 We also made adorable hats that my little Groundhogs looked absolutely adorable in!  I just love them!

I hope everyone is having a wonderful week, we are looking forward to the 100th day of School on Monday!  

Arctic Animals, Birthday Parties, and Homework!

In writing we have been focusing on Informative Writing from Non-Fiction texts.  We have been focusing on Arctic Animals and my genius ttle writers know all there is to know about Penguins and Polar Bears!  Look how AMAZING our Polar Bear Bulletin-board turned out for this month!

First, we finger painted the background of the adorable Polar Bears and added glitter to make it look like ice!

 I love how improved everyone's writing is getting, they are spacing in the correct places and using capital letters as well as punctuation!  I could not be more proud of them!

Other then learning all about Arctic Animals we have also been having a blast in Developmental Centers!  For the next couple of weeks in Dramatic Play, the students have been pretending to throw birthday parties for each other and it really is so fun and sweet to watch them celebrating each other!

 Thank you so much, Mrs. Dechant for purchasing all of the new materials for our Dramatic Play Center!

They are just so amazing!

Also, don't forget I will be sending home homework packets starting this week.  They will usually consist of 2 pages of math work, one page of phonics/word work, and one writing page. The whole pack will be due the following Friday! You can either do 1 page each night for homework or if you need to skip a night you can do so and then do two pages the next night, whatever works best for your family! Students will get the pack on Mondays and they are expected to turn them in on Friday! When they turn their homework in on Fridays, they will get 2 pieces of Honey Money! Thank you so much for working at home with your child on the work we are teaching at school! We couldn't do it with out your help and I really appreciate everything you do at home to help reinforce what we are working on in class!

Back to the Grind...FINALLY

After a few snow days, it almost seemed like we would never come back to school!  But, luckily today was our first day back and my AMAZING students didn't skip a beat!  They are amazing and I am beyond proud of them!

We were working on composing the number 5, which means finding all the ways to make 5!  We used double sided counters and "Spilled them out of a container, then counted them, and finally recorded our answers!"

I am so proud of my little math mathematicians!  

Back in Action

Sorry for the lack of posts this month, we have been extremely busy getting back in to our daily routines and finishing up 2nd Quarter Assessments!  However, this post is a quick snapshot of everything we've been up to over the past couple weeks!  I hope everyone is staying warm and having a great week!

Warming up our chilly windows with these adorable "stain-glass" mittens, made with sticking tissue paper on to contact paper!

My amazing students hard at work during our Fundations block!  

Practicing our sight words with some of our favorite sight word songs from youtube

Everyone has also been doing awesome during our Daily 5 Block!  It's like we never took 2 weeks off for the Holidays 

 The girls working on Read-to-Someone during Daily 5

 Jaelin busy at work on Listening-to-Reading and Oscar working on Read-to-Self during Daily 5!

 Building words during Word-Work!

The girls working hard on Work-on-Writing during Daily 5!

We also have a bit of sad news, we had to say Goodbye to one of our classmates who is moving away.  However, to celebrate our friendships with him we had "Amayei Day" and made him going away cards and celebrated with cookies and juice!

 We'll miss our little buddy, but we know he'll meet lots of new friends at his new school!  Good Luck, Amayei!  Your Claxton Family loves you, keep in touch!