Moving Along

We have been VERY busy over the last few weeks and I haven't updated.  So, be prepared for some random thoughts.

I was gone on Monday and came back to a wonderful report from the substitute.  The kids were great! I love knowing that when I am gone they are still on track.

On Wednesday, I went home and told my husband that I had the best day at school that I have ever had.  The kids were AMAZING! Every lesson went flawlessly, they all participated and had amazing ideas in every subject.  Something clicked with all of us and even today, it seems like we are all on the same page.

With all of the good things that have been happening in class, the bumblebees have earned a reward... an over the top pajama day on Friday! See the orange note that will come home in folders today.

Next week is a 2 day week.  On Tuesday we will be going to the ICF property for a couple of hours, the permission slip will be in communicators today.  Also, on Tuesday, there is a PIE the teacher assembly at 2:10 in the gym.

We have started a new math unit in the Common Core book.  We are working on Place Value.  This is a LONG unit and there is a mid unit assessment and a final assessment.  I will be sending homework home.  What I send home shouldn't require a lot of assistance from an adult.  If it does, then it is an area that your student is probably struggling in.

We are finishing up our letters to the President and I will send them off tomorrow.  After winter break, we are going to write to Disney characters.

Below are some pictures from the last two weeks... HAVE A GREAT DAY!

Caleb won our estimation contest.  He guessed that there were 506 candy corns and there were 518.  He got to take ALL of them home! 

One of my former students and Grace at the ICF property looking at raptor feet.

Michelle was checking out all of the cool things they brought to show us.

Candy was showing us a really neat barn owl!

Our Elections

Thank you all for coming to conferences and meeting with me.  If you have any questions about anything at all, let me know.  I am more than happy to follows up on anything.

This week we will have our Unit 6 test for Fundations.  It will be on Friday.  Please make sure you are working with your student a couple of minutes a night on some of the words, sounds and sentences.  Remember that Fundations is about teaching spelling rules that can be applied to several words.  It is not about memorizing all of those words, it is about learning the rule and applying it.

I will also be giving a math test this week over addition and subtraction with regrouping.  The test will have mixed problems.  We will probably do this test on Friday, as well.

Our 3 branches of government test will be on Wednesday.  The flash cards were sent home last week and the kids also had a set here at school that they studied.

Below are some pictures from last week.  We had a mock election featuring stuffed animals.  Chomp was the winner by one vote! We also made voter registration cards and learned about different aspects of the government.

TRIPLETS!

Poncho TWINS! 

Halloween!