A Lot of Everything

The student still love to utilize the compare and contrast venns and are now using them in their math data!

We have had the best time learning about the sun and stars.  They wrote facts about the sun.  We went back and read them and crossed out the opinions. 

The students observations about the night sky turned out so neat.  They enjoyed reading about what other students saw and how the sky looks different depending on where you were and what the weather was like.

Here is our KWL about Sun and Stars!  They learned so much!

During our thanksgiving centers the students made Indian writing on cow hide (publix paper bags).  They had so much fun writing with pictures!

They made pilgrims and wrote how they were alike or different than pilgrims.

Each student got a baggie of bens which they had to sort and glue on their traced hand.  Then they write who would carve their turkey that Thanksgiving.

We got a won a chalk and snack party when we rolled the dice for the 2nd time this year.  We are now 7 charms from our third roll.  They had a blast tracing each other, playing tic tac toe sight words and making venn diagrams (all their ideas)!

I sure you heard about Frosty our Elf on the shelf that came to watch over us until Christmas.  Here are a few photos of Frosty in action in our room.  I hope you enjoyed reading about their adventures with him over break!

Monday Update a a day late

It’s Ms. Toledo’s last week and we are going to miss her so much!!! She has truly been an asset to our classroom and the children have loved learning from her teaching! She will be missed but we know she will come back and visit!

· Phonics- Red/Yellow/Green/Blue - plural s says s and z ex. bugs, cups

· Keep using those vocabulary words and sight words each week. Use context clues when you read  This weeks words: Brilliant, perform, entertain, enjoy, audience

· The field trip forms and the second payment of $24 dollars or the full $49 is THIS Friday, December 2^nd. Remember that the chaperone cost is $54.00

· We are covering shadows later this week and need to borrow some flashlights with your name on it. Please send ones in that you have at home so we investigate how shadows are created!

· Scholastic book orders are due Tuesday, November 29^th!

· Book It and their book reviews (must be completed by the student)….due Wed., November 30^th!

· Check your food for box tops and $1.00 Pickle Fridays J

· We are collecting washed out Dole or Del Monte fruit cups for holiday crafts. Please send them in until we have enough! J Coming soon information on Whitehurst Winter Wonderland!

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A Week of Performing!

Check out the stars of JBE Folk Song Express! I am partial but are they not the cutest! We have practiced over a week for this performance and kids were ready to perform for their peers and families! We had speaking parts, solo, special acting parts, and our spotlight dance to “This Land is Our Land!”

Mrs. Austin, our music teacher does a great job with the kids and gets them excited to sing their sweet hearts out! We have continued to compare and contrast this week!  On Tuesday they compared and contrasted these two photos independently.

Look at their awesome Venn Diagrams! A parent from another class who helped out with the play brought in juice and snacks on Wednesday to congratulate each class from Tuesday nights performance.  They enjoyed the cookies and juice!

We reached our 2nd round of 20 charms and Mrs. Lewis came to our room to roll the BIG DICE!!!!

We rolled a 4 and are planning our chalk and snack party for next Monday or Tuesday!  Today was such a great day for feasting in our class.  We had 9 parents come in for our family feast.  We got our thanksgiving meal from the lunch room and headed back to the room to eat with your families and friends.  After we had some delicious desserts….pumpkin pie and whipped cream, rice crispies, brownies, and sugar cookies!  The students had a hay day over the sweets. 

 

After lunch we headed out to recess to burn off some of those sweets and then we watched the other half of first grade perform their program for us.  I hope it went as well tonight as it did for our crew on Tuesday!