Wacky Wednesday...for SURE!

Noah started off the day with a bang! We were talking about the THREE times when writers write capital letters and he remembered that the snap word I is always capitalized. 

Then...of course, it was only natural that we had to pick him to write the first word in our morning sentence! 

Here is our finished morning sentence. You can see from this picture, and the one below, that we are working on chunks ALREADY! Not all children are ready for this, but many are. I gave a little spelling test today and I will grade them and talk to you, at conferences, about where your child is, as a speller and where he or she will go from here. 

Just LOOK at these bat facts! Bats live in a cave. 

Bats are nocturnal. 

I know that bats can fly.

Our poor friend Jace, fell today-at recess and broke his wrist! We all feel SO bad and will be thinking of him all day tomorrow. The moral of the story: Mrs. Cota needs to remind her kiddos to not play on the monkey bars with gloves on. Gosh! I feel terrible. :(

Happy TuEsDaY!

Today we learned that bats can 'roost' or hang upside down, from walls, trees, caves, bridges...etc. So we have a LOT of little brown bats roosting in K02 now! 

We played a new math game, called compare. It's kind of like war...which helps kiddos compare numbers. Most of our kids can easily read the number, but there are some who still rely on counting to be able to read the number. 

Our friend, CARTER, earned his bee today because he could name all of the upper- and lower-case letters, as well as the sound each letter makes. WAY TO GO Carter!!! 

Happy Monday!

It's already been a week since my last post? Sorry! Last week I had something going on almost every night. Sheesh. Ready for a fresh, new week :) Oh goodness. Seems I still took photos, but had no time to post them. Enjoy!!!

Every scientist needs a science journal, right? We are learning about bats right now! Hopefully, your child can teach you some facts about bats so that you don't think they are horrible, disgusting creatures! 

We started off by posting some pictures on our smartboard. I asked the kids to draw and write any and everything they knew about bats. 

Some had schema about colors...

about them being nocturnal...

about them flying...

about them hanging upside down in caves...

and what food they eat! Our kiddos said bugs, fruit and fish. We will do some research and find out! 

CUTE! Noah has on a patriotic shirt! We love talking about our country, and being patriotic.
Every morning I ask our friends what the name of our country, state and city are.

We worked on the snap word can. If you can read it, then you can write a simple sentence starting with the sentence starter--I can.

Some of our friends had a hard time writing a sentence with these snap words, so I'll be working with them next week during reading workshop.

We were SO busy with art projects last week! Goodness! Can't wait for you to see our hallway :) I'll have to leave it up through conferences. It's adorable. We had a little color mixing lesson with our pumpkins too.

Some of our friends are finding more and more snap words in the books we read! 

Our number of the day was 15! Just look at how fast Jace figured out those 10-frames. 

Our first venn diagram...comparing a bumblebee bat to a flying fox bat! 

Our readers had a great connection today. Both of these authors used cut-outs in their stories...that's a neat style that we haven't seen too much of yet. 

It was hilarious watching them read this book with me. They were amazed! It was like magic...as that big, green monster went away :) 

Our story problem asked us to sort the bears at our table together and then record how many green bears there were.