Animal Research

These past two weeks we have been researchers!  We have learned all about how to research and how to figure out the most important details in texts.  Next week we will share all about our animals through an app called ChatterPix!  Here are some examples of what we have been doing so far...

Mrs. Ulmer

We are all missing Mrs. Ulmer after she has had her back surgery!  Everything seemed to go well and she is at home recovering.  We are hopeful that she will be able to come back before the end of the school year!  I am planning on going over to visit Mrs. Ulmer next Monday after school.  If your child would like to make a card or send anything to her, please have them bring it to school on or before next Monday.

 

Fun at the zoo!

We had such a great time on our field trip to the zoo last Friday!!  The weather was perfect and the animals were out.  Thank you to all of the chaperones that made this field trip possible!  Enjoy the Smilebox!!

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Chicks!

We are SO excited that we finally have eggs with baby chicks inside!  We have been learning about oviparous animals and baby chicks for the past two weeks and the time has finally come that we have our own chick eggs!  The chicks have not started hatching yet, but we are hopeful that they will hatch very soon!  Each day this week we have been writing in our chick observation books.  We have been scientists and have taken good notes so that we can look back and see the changes from day to day.  Here are some pictures that we have taken so far!

Short a

These past two weeks we have been working on hearing, finding and saying the short a sound.  Last Friday we had our first "test" to see what we have learned so far.  We wrote down short a words, wrote a sentence that was dictated to us, and then wrote down the three high frequency words that we were focusing on writing that week.  To prepare us for our Friday "tests", we have been working with a lot of poems and highlighting the short a words, playing games and doing other activities on the Smartboard.  Please help your child feel confident and ready for each Friday by helping them practice throughout the week.  The first day of each week we write down all of the words that we will need to know how to spell for Friday.  This sheet gets sent home in their communication folders.  Please be on the look out for the sheet each week and just call out the words for your child to write down!   You can make this into a game if you like!

Oviparous Animals

This week we have been learning a lot about oviparous animals (or animals that lay eggs).  We had so much fun finding the eggs that were hidden in the classroom!  Once we found the eggs we opened them up and found different oviparous animals inside!!  We were shocked at some of the animals that were oviparous; such as the ladybug and the lizard.  We now have some of the eggs on our science table so that we can be scientists and learn more about the different animals.  Ask your child what animals they know that are oviparous!

Rock and Read

This week we have been celebrating Dr. Seuss' birthday by reading many of his books, his biography and even by watching some short videos.  Today we continued to celebrate by participating in our school wide "rock and read" event.  During this time we got to bring a few of our favorite books to rainbow island and were able to sit in the rocking chairs to read!  We had such a great time celebrating Dr. Seuss and Read Across America!