Hi Parents!!

This is my first post for the 2012-2013 school year, so exciting!  Whew!  We HAVE been busy and I will post some pictures this weekend showing some of the learning we have done about the sun and giving you a peak inside our centers, starting with our "Free Choice" centers.  Until then, I wanted to let you know that I will be sending book orders home on Friday.  This is a great opportunity to purchase books and at VERY reasonable price and earn free books for our classroom.  Happy reading!!

Wrapping Up the Year!

Hi Parents!

This year has been so wonderful!  VERY truthfully, I'm sad to let the kiddos go on to 1st grade :)  Here are some pictures of just a few things we have been doing the past few weeks.

We've made a HIUGE end of the year push to incorporate blends, tricky words families, and  silent e words into our writing.

Practicing identifying and finding numbers on a 100s chart.

This one is upside down but it is working on place value.

Super E Bingo!

Adding by counting up :)

Letter writing center.

Letter writing center 2.

Determining greater or less than using 10 frames.

One of our experiments from our Conservation Unit.

Our poster that we made to represent nonfiction elements.




Next week will be Beach Week.  I will do one more post for parents about Beach Week before school  is over!

Pointillism and Some Centers

Hi parents!  The school year is coming to a close, but we are still working hard!  There will be a few more posts before the end of the year, so keep checking back :)

Center from two weeks ago (sorting "e family" words)

Arranging letter tiles found in Easter eggs to make color and number words.

Filling in ten frames and deciding if numbers are greater or less than, out of sequence.

Reviewing coin values with our shake ball!

Addition center.

More number words in the pocket chart.

Reviewing tallies with Tally Monsters.

Putting sight words and CVC (consonant, vowel, consonant) words in order to make sentences.


In art, we were inspired by Georges Seurat to create pointillism paintings.

Thanks to all the moms for coming to the Tea Friday!  I had so much fun and I hope you did too!

Busy, busy, busy!

I'm super sad that I didn't have a chance to take any pictures of our last set of centers, they were some of our toughest yet!  We were matching ending sounds of CVC words and writing the words, sounding out and writing four and five letter words with blends (flip, drink...), sorting CVC words by vowel sound and writing the words, and working on number sequence up to 20.

Check out what's been going on lately!!

We've been studying plants, this is our mini class garden!

This was an Easter writing project we did.  The kiddos are becoming great writers!

Daily News is a new part of our morning routine.  Our "teacher's helper" completes it every morning and then we discuss it during our morning meeting!

Some days we work on the Daily News together!!

This can be part of Daily News.  On days we do Fix It Up together, each child completes a Fix It Up sheet.

Have you heard about Ethan, Super E, yet?  If not, check our the Super E story I sent home tonight!!  We will be working hard to read and write CVC-E words from now until the end of the year!


Look for photos later this week from our current set of centers :)

St. Patricks Day and Spring (ish) centers

I'm going to be working hard to catch up on the blog.  I'm making this post today and will be making another one tomorrow or Saturday.

Check out some of our centers from the end of March!

Sorting words in short i families.

Matching pictures with their blends.

Listening center.

What number comes next?  (17....18!)

"Captain of the Ship", pirate sight word game.

Working on handwriting and sentence order and structure.


Hope you have a happy Friday!

It's been too long!

Hi parents!  I'm sorry I've been absent for so long!  I COULD NOT get my phone to upload photos for the longest time and then yesterday, it worked!  Not sure what happened, but I'm glad it did.  Here are a few photos from our Dr. Seuss week.

Sequencing "The Cat in the Hat"

Our own imaginary animal creations, inspired by, "If I Ran the Zoo"

Seuss week center, counting, 10 frames, and tallies. 

Working on a "Write the Room" with sight words.

Racing through the maze and reading CVC words.

Making CVC words and sorting them as real or nonsense.

Identifying and graphing blends.

Skip counting in the pocket chart.


I will post pictures of some of our plant work, our previous set of centers, and our new morning news routine VERY soon!  Have a great week!