Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Candy & Fruit Party
Here are a few pictures from our Candy and Fruit Party. We made chocolate covered strawberries earlier in the day and masks. Also, we made finger puppets and took a few class pictures. A class picture with our masks, and a silly faced one. The party was a lot of fun!
Thursday, October 22, 2009
Octopusis
A recommendation from a parent that follows this blog, requested that I put up some of the children's own writings. This has spread like wildfire, and I have had a few children want to get published "for real"! So we have two work samples, I wish I had my camera today and was able to show their pictures, but I will definitely include a picture for the next post. The journal topic was if you could be an animal, what would you be? Why?
Oktopusis
My anumil is a oktipus kus vay liv udr uotr. I liik vam. By Jayden. Ydeu frum Daniel. Ulustrad by Skyler. Oktopusis
(My animal is a octopus because they live under water. I like them. By Jayden. Idea from Daniel. Illustrated by Skyler. Octopus' -- He included the title page at the end, Skyler did not really illustrate, but he clearly understand the need for a title page :)
Greta's Journal entry:
If I were a butterfly I would fly around all round in the forest. Greta.
As you can see, Jayden's entry is completely sounded out by himself. Both Greta and Jayden worked so hard on their work that I really wanted to share their work with you all. We can see so much progress with sounding words out and their handwriting has improved as well! Hope you enjoy seeing a little bit of our day!
Megan
Oktopusis
My anumil is a oktipus kus vay liv udr uotr. I liik vam. By Jayden. Ydeu frum Daniel. Ulustrad by Skyler. Oktopusis
(My animal is a octopus because they live under water. I like them. By Jayden. Idea from Daniel. Illustrated by Skyler. Octopus' -- He included the title page at the end, Skyler did not really illustrate, but he clearly understand the need for a title page :)
Greta's Journal entry:
If I were a butterfly I would fly around all round in the forest. Greta.
As you can see, Jayden's entry is completely sounded out by himself. Both Greta and Jayden worked so hard on their work that I really wanted to share their work with you all. We can see so much progress with sounding words out and their handwriting has improved as well! Hope you enjoy seeing a little bit of our day!
Megan
Friday, September 18, 2009
Update!
Hello!
School is blowing by! I feel so welcomed, and just love my experience here in Sharon and Megan's Family Group. The kids are learning, but more importantly they have made friends. It is great to see how so many have become best friends, all the while we are all working on welcoming EVERYONE to play with each other. This has been an important learning experience for us all, and is really going over well. I love that the kids have learned this so quickly and are really a family in here. It's great!
We have been moving through our math, and we are really focusing on patterns. We are having a pattern exhibit on Monday, so we are encouraging all students to find patterns at home and bring them in to share.
This week our star student of the week is Anika, and next week it will be Michael! It is so neat that the students get a chance to bring in pictures and they are so proud as they talk about their pictures.
I hope you all enjoy hearing my little tidbits about what is going on in the room! :)
Megan
School is blowing by! I feel so welcomed, and just love my experience here in Sharon and Megan's Family Group. The kids are learning, but more importantly they have made friends. It is great to see how so many have become best friends, all the while we are all working on welcoming EVERYONE to play with each other. This has been an important learning experience for us all, and is really going over well. I love that the kids have learned this so quickly and are really a family in here. It's great!
We have been moving through our math, and we are really focusing on patterns. We are having a pattern exhibit on Monday, so we are encouraging all students to find patterns at home and bring them in to share.
This week our star student of the week is Anika, and next week it will be Michael! It is so neat that the students get a chance to bring in pictures and they are so proud as they talk about their pictures.
I hope you all enjoy hearing my little tidbits about what is going on in the room! :)
Megan
Tuesday, September 8, 2009
Busy Week in our Room!
Hello all!
This week is going to be a hectic week for us all! We had yesterday off (Yay for the long weekend!:) Today should be relatively normal, but tomorrow is our first half day of the year and we are going to start Family Style Meals at 11:30-1:00. Spaghetti is on our menu! Then, tomorrow night we have the Open House from 6:00-7:30. Thursday morning we will take our school pictures at about 8:30 in the morning. By 9:30 we will be on our way to the Alaska Botanical Gardens for our all day field trip! By Friday, the kids should be ready for a normal day.
I have enabled the comments, so I hope to hear from some parents (I kind of feel as though I am talking to myself).
Also, I have taken some great photos of the children learning throughout the day and playing with their friends so I will try to upload those soon!
Megan
This week is going to be a hectic week for us all! We had yesterday off (Yay for the long weekend!:) Today should be relatively normal, but tomorrow is our first half day of the year and we are going to start Family Style Meals at 11:30-1:00. Spaghetti is on our menu! Then, tomorrow night we have the Open House from 6:00-7:30. Thursday morning we will take our school pictures at about 8:30 in the morning. By 9:30 we will be on our way to the Alaska Botanical Gardens for our all day field trip! By Friday, the kids should be ready for a normal day.
I have enabled the comments, so I hope to hear from some parents (I kind of feel as though I am talking to myself).
Also, I have taken some great photos of the children learning throughout the day and playing with their friends so I will try to upload those soon!
Megan
Monday, August 24, 2009
Literacy in the First Week!
Hello!
On Friday, I read to the kiddo's after lunch and recess. This is part of their daily schedule, to have a read aloud after recess to calm them down before doing paired reading. The children were especially interested in listening to the book, so I ended up reading three books to them.
For the paired reading time we pair all of the first graders with a kindergarten student. This allows the first grader to read to the younger. Some of the children aren't reading, so they sit together and look at the books. This is an interesting time to watch the children interact, because a lot of times the elders allow the youngers to choose the book. It seems as though the older children are just very proud to be able to help the youngers. Aside from the reading time, they also have writing workshop and literacy centers.
The first week was a lot of fun, I am very excited for the rest of the year!
Megan
On Friday, I read to the kiddo's after lunch and recess. This is part of their daily schedule, to have a read aloud after recess to calm them down before doing paired reading. The children were especially interested in listening to the book, so I ended up reading three books to them.
For the paired reading time we pair all of the first graders with a kindergarten student. This allows the first grader to read to the younger. Some of the children aren't reading, so they sit together and look at the books. This is an interesting time to watch the children interact, because a lot of times the elders allow the youngers to choose the book. It seems as though the older children are just very proud to be able to help the youngers. Aside from the reading time, they also have writing workshop and literacy centers.
The first week was a lot of fun, I am very excited for the rest of the year!
Megan
Wednesday, August 19, 2009
Great Day!
Today was busy and fun! We are learning each other's names and learning the routine. Today we had gym and will have gym again tomorrow as well as music. The Kinders fit right in and made friends easily! Looking forward to a great day tomorrow!!
See you soon
Sharon
See you soon
Sharon
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