Look What We Made!!

This year we made 2010 Calendars as a gift for our parents. Our handprints are on each page of the calendar. We loved making them. We hope you loved them too! A lot of love went into the making of them.

Our Christmas Celebration

We decided to do things a little different during our Christmas party. First off we had a morning breakfast party. Mrs. Jones made us pancakes. We also had YUMMY cinnamon rolls & the best part we played board games. We brought our favorites from home & played our classroom favorites too! It was fun hanging out with our friends!

Guest Reader

Marvelous Maggie's mom stopped by to read, Snowmen At Christmas. It was SO funny!!! She also brought along some yummy pretzel snowmen for us to munch on! We enjoyed the story and getting to learn mom about her.

Edible Snowman Art

Each month we have Cooking In The Classroom. This month I decided to present plain cupcakes, marshmallows, m&m's, mini chocolate chips, pretzels, icing, & frosting to the students & ask them to "create their own snowman." They were very creative in their art. I don't know what the liked better, creating or eating the final product!

Verbs..."It's what you do!"

This week we began our focus on VERBS. We played Verb-O (verb bingo), acted out verbs, & made a gingerbread girl. We read several versions of the book, The Gingerbread Man. The students noticed a pattern...he ran, jumped, skipped, slid, hopped, laughed, and much more. The books were full of verbs! We decided to make a Gingerbread Girl & come up with all the things she could do...dance, run, twirl, sing, slide, etc. It was a neat focus, not to mention yummy one too!

Christmas Field Trip

We traveled to the Performing Arts Center to watch a stage production of a Christmas Carol. It was put on by TMS students. They did a wonderful job! The students LOVED the bus ride over & back!! It was full of friendship & caroling!

Giving Thanks!

We had a wonderful Thanksgiving meal together! We made placemats & ate our Thankgiving meal together in our classroom while listening to traditional Cherokee Indian flute music.

We Won!

We won the dust pan award during "Gorilla Pride" for having the cleaniest room in the Green Wing! Yes!!!

Veterans Day

We celebrated Veterans Day with a morning program, slide show, & songs honoring our guests. It was a great day!!

Halloween Fun!

Our Costumes!
We decorated cookies!
We made mummies & picture frames.
Bingo!
The food was so good!!!

Go Tigers!

Look who I saw cheering on the Tigers Friday night!

Spirit Stick

We’ve Got Spirit, Yes We Do!
Our class was the first to win the Spirit Stick during Friday’s Gorilla Pride Assembly! It was full of candy! We were thrilled! We will spend the week looking for another class who has spirit! We will be presenting the stick to that class during the next assembly.

Johnny Appleseed Week

We kicked off a week long unit over Johnny Appleseed last Friday. We made apple flips & they were y-u-m-m-y!! Below you will find our recipe!

Ingredients:

Homestyle Grand Biscuits, canned Apple Pie Filling, Cinnamon, & Sugar.
Recipe: (preheat oven 350 degrees)
1. Flatten one biscuit.
2. Spoon 2-3 teaspoons full of apple pie filling onto one half of the biscuit.
3. Fold other half of biscuit over (it will look like a taco).
4. Pinch edges closed.
5. Sprinkle with cinnamon & sugar.
6. Bake until golden brown.
Enjoy!

A Peek At Sept 28 - Oct 2

We will wrap up September this week. My how it flew!! We will begin new reading and spelling skills today. We will focus on the concepts of nonfiction reading material, facts/opinions, & connecting text to our prior knowledge. Math this week will include: daily flash card practice with “plus 3 & +4 ” flash cards, counting nickels & dimes, leveled clock/time practice, & finishing up writing by 2’s to 50/100. Our Painted Lady caterpillars transformed into beautiful chrysalises last week. The students began keeping observation journals over their progress. We are currently waiting for them to emerge, transformed with wings. We will go on a field trip to NSU on Wednesday to watch the play “A Bagful of Fables.” It should be a great trip for us! Things are going wonderfully in the Multiage so far this year! I am so fortunate to have such a wonderful group of sweet, driven, & loving students!!!

Sept 28-Oct 2

Mon: 1. Speller’s Choice Activity 2. Read both books in
your homework bag 3. Math Flash Cards & Wraps Practice
Tues: 1. Speller’s Choice Activity 2. Read story in your
hardback reader 3.Timed “Math Masters” Practice Sheet
Wed: 1. Speller’s Choice Activity 2. Read both books in
your homework bag 3. Math Flash Cards & Wraps Practice
Thurs: 1. Speller’s Choice Activity 2. Read story in your
hardback reader 3.Timed “Math Masters” Practice Sheet
Friday: Reading & Spelling Tests In Class Today!

Grandparents Day!