We got to wear hats and silly socks last week. Also, we came to school dressed very tacky. We all looked so silly together, even Mrs. Deaton and Mrs. Feller. We even got to watch Horton Hears a Who!
In math, we learned a lot about subtraction. Mrs. Deaton helped us practice our subtraction in Math Club. It was a lot of fun because we got to use small dry erase boards for the problems. Also, we had a lot of fun math centers. We put pattern block shapes on Horton the elephant. We sorted fish by color and graphed the number of each color. We also sorted Cat in the Hat's by size. We put them in order from shortest to tallest.
We worked hard during Daily 5 last week too. We did iStation on the computers, Raz-Kids on the iPads, worked with Mrs. Deaton in Book Club and worked with Mrs. Feller in Writing. We also got to do a lot of fun things in Working with Words. We practiced our sight words and other things in those tubs. Some kids get to work with Mrs. Farrow at her table. Fun! We practiced our sight words on the SmartBoard, too. We jumped up every time we read a new word.
One thing we loved last week was having Mystery Readers. We didn't know who the readers were going to be. Mrs. Deaton gave us clues and we got to guess. Then, the Mystery Reader came into our classroom and read to us. We thought this was awesome.
Work centers were great last week too. All of our Work Centers were about the Cat in the Hat. We made the Cat in an art center. We wrote silly sentences on green eggs and ham ("The duck drove the truck."). We match opposite words, like "boy" and "girl" or "soft" and "hard". We also sorted our pictures by the ending sounds.
On Thursday, we had a very special group of Mystery Readers come into our classroom. We got to buddy read with Mrs. Micklow's 2nd grade class. Mrs. Micklow is Caroline's mommy. Adriyana's sister, Amani, is in Mrs. Micklow's class. We all got to pair up with a 2nd grader to read. They read to us and we read to them! It was really fun.
One more fun thing about last week... (Mrs. Deaton forgot to take a picture...OOPS). We got to Skype with a Kindergarten class in New Jersey. We talked to this class about the weather and about Dr. Seuss week. We also talked about things we are learning in Math. We shared some very fun youtube video's with that class. Mrs. Deaton said that we can Skype with them again another day. It was cool to meet some kids from another state!
