Be My Valentine!

A Peek At Our Week Feb 16-20

This is going to be a great week of learning! We will kick off the week with a short unit over President’s Day. We will revisit time, money,& base 10’s during math. During Language Arts we will be making contractions. We will end the week with our school wide GE Model School Celebration starting promptly at 1:00 pm. Each grade has a short presentation during the assembly. Parents are invited to attend & celebrate our accomplishment! Important leaders from the community have been invited too. If you have any questions feel free to contact me. Have a wonderful week!!!!!!!!!!!

Attendance Trophy!

Last week our class received the Greenwood Attendance “Traveling” Trophy! Our classroom had the best attendance during the month of January, with only 5 absences!!! We will keep it until March. Mrs. J is so proud of us!!

Valentine Candy Math

Last week we had Valentine Heart Candy Math! It was fun and educational! We sorted, graphed, counted, compared, answered math problems, created word problems, & much more. We ate the hearts after we finished.

Mystery Reader...It's Amazing Ana!

This week our Mystery Reader was Amazing Ana, Nice Neida's big sister! Amazing Ana read a wonderful Valentine story entitled Mouse In Love. The student's loved the story & Neida was surprised. Mrs. J was very proud of Ana's reading. Amazing Ana is a former member of our multiage. Afterwards we made "spin art" painted Valentine hearts. We glued the hearts on our Valentine sacks. Each one turned out unique...just like each one of us!!!

Spin Art Hearts: 1. Cut out a heart shape out of construction paper (we used craft scissors to add a decorative edge.) 2. place your heart in the bottom of a kitchen "salad spinner" 3. blob on your favorite colors of paint using plastic spoons 4. put the lid on and spin! 5. Take off the lid and check out the final product. (final spin art heart pics coming soon!)

Making & Breaking Words

We love the making & breaking word lessons that we do each day. We use letter cards or plastic letter tiles to make given words. We orally use the words in a sentence, isolate sounds, & use our phonics knowledge to make new words from given words. It really helps us use our brains! One of the resource books Mrs. J uses for these lessons is Systematic Sequential Phonics. You can find this resource online at http://www.four-blocks.com/system.htm

100 Days In The Multiage!

Today we also celebrated 100 days in the Multiage! It was the 100th day of school. We did several activities relating to the number 100. We used our math skills to figure out how to divide 100 M&M's between our 20 students. After we figured that out we divided them up & put them on top of our celebration cake. It was a yummy treat! Today we also met Mrs. J's mom. She stayed and celebrated with us.

Groundhog Day Hooray!

Today we celebrated Groundhog Day by beginning a science unit over shadows. We made groundhog replicas and glued them on tongue depressors. At 12:30 we took them outside to see if they would have shadows. The sun was behind the clouds & the groundhogs DID NOT have shadows. We checked on them again at 2:00 & the sun was out from behind the clouds. We saw shadows everywhere!!! The groundhogs all had shadows, the trees, & even us! Afterwards, we journaled our observations on paper.