Great Week...

We had a great week. It was red ribbon week this past week. We had a lot of fun wearing our sweats, sunglasses and jeans and red shirts to show our support in being drug free. We won the door decorating door contest too. Kennedi came up with an awesome idea for a door...No "body" likes drugs...and everyone made a skeleton and made speech bubbles to go with them. I will post pictures next week of the door, it really did turn out cute!
The kids worked very hard this week on vocabulary, spelling, reading, narrative writing, problem solving and data collection. We had a lot of fun with the data collection by completing surveys this week involving raisins, our heights/heights of first graders, our families and siblings. We learned more specifically about line plots, mean, median, mode, and range throughout this week. Data will be a skill we visit frequently the rest of the year. We also have been practicing a new approach to problem solving. You can ask your child about it....a later blog may come on that. The kids really worked hard this week in their studies.
This week we also earned our 25th link. If you didn't know we earn links in the hallway and other places by receiving compliments for their behavior. When 25 links are earned a celebration is in order. This weeks celebration was long overdue. They have worked extremely hard to earn 25 links by good hallway behavior, cafeteria behavior and specials behavior. I decided to treat the students with a treat, drink, and a craft. The students earned some juice, some chocolate covered popcorn, and a craft- making a fall frame. We had a lot of fun eating our snacks and making the frames. I can't wait until our next celebration!
This next week we will be working on some new things. In math, we will be starting our unit on fractions...this will include addition/subtraction of fractions with unlike denominators, multiplication/division of fractions...and more concepts to come. I am very excited about teaching this unit, there are a lot of new discoveries the students will come to see. In reading, we will still be working on story elements, summaries, and retelling what they read. Grammar, we will be studying subjects, predicates and different types of sentences. We will be wrapping up narrative writing this week. I hope to have some students share their narratives on the blog.
Upcoming Events:
-October Book It Reading Logs need to be turned in Monday, November 2, 2009
-No School on Tuesday, November 3, 2009- It is a teacher work day.
-Brumby's International Bazaar- Friday, November 6, 2009 from 5:30-8:00- It is going to be a lot of good entertainment, food, arts, and crafts!!!
I think that is about it for now. I am sorry it has been awhile since I have blogged. I hope to keep updating more often. Thanks for reading! If you have any questions/comments/ concerns please let me know! Have a safe and Happy Halloween!!!!