Winter

Because the weather was SO cold, we got to come to school late this morning.  We came to school two hours later than normal so we arrived at 10:30.  We started our morning by unpacking, making our lunch choice and doing our morning work.

We did not go to Specials or do math this morning.  Instead, we got started on Daily 5. We did morning message and sang a fun song called "Vowel Bat".  Then, we did two rounds of Daily 5.  Some groups did Working with Words and other groups did Computers.  If we went to the computers, we played Snakes and Ladders on literactive.com.  It was a lot of fun. Some groups went to Writing with Mrs. Feller.  The writing group drew pictures in a big sack of what they got for Christmas.  Then, we cut a sentence apart and put it back together.  The groups that came to Book Club with Mrs. Deaton read books and practiced letters and words.  We are getting smarter!  The last group went on the iPads.  We do Raz-Kids on the iPads.  Cool!

After Daily 5, we did Fundations.  We made words using our Letter Laptops.  Some of the words we made were "play", "the" and "can".

Before lunch, we checked our Twitter account on the Internet.  Our friends from China, Mrs. Hamley's class, sent us a message.  They wished us a Happy New Year.  We found out that Chinese New Year is on January 31st.  We are going to send them a special New Years treat on that day.  We love talking to our friends in China.  Guess what!! Mrs. Hamley's class is sleeping while we are in school.  While they are in school, we are sleeping!  Isn't that neat?

We took a break and went to lunch.  Then, we watched a BrainpopJr. video about hibernating animals.  We found out that some animals hibernate in the winter.  That means that they sleep all winter long. Mrs. Deaton read us a book called "Animals in Winter".  We learned even more about hibernating animals from her book.

Then, we did Work Centers.   We worked so hard today!
"My center was making a book.  I glued pictures into my book that started with different letters." Adriayana
"I did the same thing like Adriyana.  I colored some." Logan
"I made a penguin.  Then, I cut out words to feed the penguin.  The words rhyme." Addison
"I drew the animal homes and colored the animals.  Then, I cut them out and put them on a sentence strip."  Daniel
"I made a mitten with animals in it.  It is from the story "The Mitten"" Gigi
"I wrote about what my snowman does at night.  My snowman slides down the hill." Christian

The last thing we did was recess.  We did not go outside because it is too cold.  We went to the gym.  We played basketball, jump ropes, hoola hoops and ran around.  It was a lot of fun.  We love school!!