TENZI FRENZY!

We are enjoying the new math game Tenzi!  This was one of the classroom gifts given during Teacher Appreciation Week. The children are enjoying playing in small groups to be the first one to roll ten dice with the same number showing. 

Tikki Tikki Tembo

Thursday, May 8th

6:30 PM

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Garden Project

The first and second graders are helping with the Deborah Rawson Library garden this year. This week they learned what plants need in order to grow. Mrs. Adams and Mrs. K discussed how the students will plant the seeds and care for the vegetables until it is time to transplant them in the outside garden. The children enjoyed playing a matching seed to vegetable game!  The children will plant the seeds this Friday afternoon and take care of them in the grow lab until later this spring.. 

Red Clover Week

This week we celebrated the 10 Red Clover books nominated for the award. The children rotated through four different activities on Thursday and Friday. One of the activities connected with the book, The World's Greatest Lion.  The children used the Google Chrome Books to create a human/animal creature. They loved the activity, Build Your Wild Self!

Writing

We started a new writing unit this week. The children are learning to write reviews and opinions. I brought in a collection of pigs so the kids could judge them. They all picked out the "best in show" and gave reasons for picking that pig. They enjoyed looking through their own collections too. They lined up their items and judged them fairly by comparing the same thing for all (size, color, shape, etc..). They picked the best of the bunch and wrote several reasons. Throughout the unit the children will be writing opinions, giving lots of reasons to support their ideas, adding details, and writing reviews to persuade others.

THANK YOU BUDDY!

We had a special treat this morning when Buddy came to sing with the 1-2 classes. The children had a great time singing some of their favorite songs!

100th Day!

The children enjoyed celebrating the 100^th day of school on Wednesday. We read several books about 100, counted to 100 by tens, wrote about our favorite activities over the past 100 days, made 100^th day headbands, and created designs with 100 objects.  It was a fun day!