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. 

Happy Monday Everyone!

Look! Our newsbook stories are finally getting longer. We are adding more story details, like having our characters talk and telling more about what happened! 

LEAVES! I hope you had fun on your leaf hunts :) 

Here was our math problem today. Braylee used her math tool to write the word 'seven.'

Here are some more samples of how students think differently about approaching a math problem! 

Carson and his family brought me lunch today! HOW SWEET!!!!
Jace bought me a present for 'bosses' day. Hahaha! I used to tell the kids I was the boss of everything in the room :) Funny. Sweet kiddos. Makes my day.

This is too cute. From choicetime. Some friends wanted to read our big books. 

Nathan worked hard the whole time he played, making me art! HOW THOUGHTFUL!!!! 

Best of friends :) 

Happy THURSDAY!

Our number of the day was 12. Just look at Will draw TWO 10-frames to show this teen number.

An important part of becoming a reader is 1-to-1 tracking...Charlie did such a great job today of pointing to ONE WORD AT A TIME as we all read the schedule together. 

Our new snap word is the. It's a labeling word. Jace said, "THE katalina matalina!" 

THE whiteboard

THE calendar

THE teacher's chair

THE little red hen

THE table

Then we played a partner snap word game to help us practice our snap words. Remember, do not sound out these words. You can cover them up, have your child spell aloud or write the words and then check! 

Here is a cute shot of our Chicken Soup with Rice Calendar! Soon you'll see the October calendar come home.

It's Landon's birthday today!!!! 

Happy Tuesday and Wednesday :)

Number of the day was 11. We had to really think through how to use a 10-frame to show this number. But we got it! 

Our risky word wall is filling up! Your kiddo gets to make a risky word when he or she has written a word that is hard...not a snap word. They have to stretch out words and quickly write down the sounds they think they hear. Brayden wrote 'widen' for 'wedding.' It's GREAT! 

Happy birthday DANIKA!!!! You've been so excited about your bday. I hope it is SO FUN! 

Look at this awesome math story problem. Ariana's work is neat, she's circled her answers neatly, solved it in more than one way and even showed a 10-frame. WOW! 

Just a great sample of the math work we've been doing during problem solving. It's important that we are neat, can think of the answer and show it in more than one way! Look at that 10 frame!