Benchmark Assessment Powerpoint! Do this at home to help :)

In December, we will be doing a mid-year assessment to see how everyone is coming along in reading.  This powerpoint activity should help your child to master the components of the Benchmark Assessents.  Just go to this link to download:
https://docs.google.com/open?id=0B0Ix53joUMyNZGczcE5rUTI5ajA

What a busy day! Christopher Columbus, the Fire Truck, and Pumpkin Craftivitiy...Whew!

What a beautiful day to be busy! We began by visiting the teacher's car to get a pumpkin from Mr. Hufstedler's pumpkin patch.  We found out that pumpkins are heavy, that they come in all shapes and sizes, and that some are different colors than others.  Here are our smiling faces as we picked out our pumpkins and carried them to class.

Mr. and Mrs. Worthy brought the BB Road Volunteer Fire Truck and taught us about Fire Safety!

We enjoyed their presentation!

 

This afternoon we learned about Christopher Columbus, King Ferdinand, Queen Isabella, three ships, and that the world was not flat after all!!! Everyone thought it was funny that people used to think the

world was flat.  We are happy that it is round.  Would you want to sail your ship off the edge? Not us!

Pumpkin Patch 2012...What a sweet group! Fun day too!

A baby Scottish Highland calf...so sweet!

In the maze!

Watch your fingers...those geese are wild!

Riding the train!

Tunnel under the maze in the barn :)

 

 More pictures to come soon!

Such a sweet class! We had a great Pumpkin Patch Trip! Here are the pics!

Our September Song! So much is learned through music!

Just listen to us sing our September song! We can spell September :)

Assigned Number Word/Number Practice Test :) Practice makes Perfect!

We will be showing our understanding of number words and their relationship to numbers soon in our class. Here is a quiz to practice with your child to help ensure they know the information by test time. :) Mrs. H

Dear Parents, Have I told you lately that I LOVE your children? What a sweet class :)

Today was one of those just plain terrific days for students and teacher! I am so pleased with how everyone has settled in with our routines, and how they are ready to learn each and every time we gather for a lesson. Here is an example of listening and cooperation: I introduced our Scholastic News Let's Find Out newspaper for the very first time! We watched the story on our smartboard about all kinds of friends, then I explained how to do each activity (patterning, counting, and reading a little book). To my amazement, EVERY student gathered their materials in the order I asked them to, and went right to work! Can you spell "i-n-d-e-p-e-n-d-e-n-c-e"? :) I was truly in awe as I watched these little people do exactly what I asked them to do. Of course, some of our little friends tried their best, and may have made a couple of itty-bitty errors...but everyone tried, and everyone felt successful! This is teacher heaven when something like this happens! :) Another thing we did was learn about matching letters to the picture whose sound they begin. Again, my little guys went right to work cutting out the letter tiles and gluing them to the correct pictures. What a fun Friday! Here are pictures of our letter sound activity. Enjoy! :)

 

 

 

Time to go home! Here we are at line-up time :)