A Week in Review - September 22 - 26

Can you believe we have completed our first month of school?  As you could see from Open House, everyone has adjusted to our classroom routines.  

This week we finally launched our literacy stations.  These stations include: read to self, work on writing, computers, listen to reading, word work, and work with a teacher.  Students spend approximately 15 minutes at each station and will rotate through two stations each day.  

Bennett and La'Mya in Read to Self (AM).

Tyler in Read to Self (PM).

Miles at Listen to Reading (PM).

Huck and Hazel at Listen to Reading (PM).

Maria at Computers (AM).

Jo Lin, Sullivan, and April at Computers (PM).

Cheyanne and Yiwen at Word Work (AM).

Derrick and Nyleah at Word Work (PM).

Lilah and Evi at Work on Writing (AM).

Monica at Work on Writing (PM).

Sample student journal.

Sample student journal.

Kennedy, Willy, and Sasha at Work with Teacher (AM).

Allie, Hayden and Katharine at Work with Teacher (PM).

October is Fire Safety month so we read a book about fire safety and created a fire truck out of the shapes we learned about this week (square, circle, triangle, and rectangle).  During our morning/afternoon message students came up and identified the shapes in our fire trucks.

Derrick identifying a square (PM).

Sullivan identifying a circle (PM).

Finally, we celebrated Sullivan's 5-year-old birthday on Friday (PM).  Happy Birthday, Sullivan!

Sullivan enjoying his birthday treat.

On Monday we have a fire safety presentation.  Tuesday is picture day!  Don't forget to turn in the pumpkin farm field trip permission slip and money.  Finally, just a reminder that the AM session is from 8:40- 11:35 and the PM session is from 12:45 - 3:40.

Love,

Miss Lucas

A Week in Review - September 17 - 21

We had another fun color week!  Everyone is always so excited to listen to the color story and create their color day project.  I'm sad to see it come to an end.

Purple Day

We began purple day by reading "Harold and the Purple Crayon."  Students then were given their own purple crayon to create a picture of their own!  For snack we had raisins. 

"I'm at the beach surfing" (Anna AM).

"It's a pool" (Kennedy AM). 

"I like to be outside" (Katharine PM).

"I like to go to the beach" (Miles PM).

Brown Day

The book we read for brown day was "Stuck in the Mud."  Students then drew themselves and painted themselves in the mud.  For snack we ate *dirt.*  

April stuck in the mud (PM). 

Jo Lin stuck in the mud (PM). 

Sullivan stuck in the mud (PM). 

Kennedy stuck in the mud (AM).

Francisco stuck in the mud (AM). 

Willy stuck in the mud (AM).

The kiddos were a little squeamish when I told them they were eating dirt for snack, but they caught on quickly.  Everyone loved eating *dirt* (pudding) for snack, especially the *worms* (gummy worms).

Hayden and Sullivan eating dirt (PM).

La'Mya eating dirt (AM).

Monica eating dirt (PM).

Tyler eating dirt (PM).

Cate eating dirt (PM).

Hazel, Bennett, Huck, Yiwen, and Noah gobbling up their dirt (AM).

Lilah and Ella eating dirt (AM).

White Day

White day was a *very* special day!  Dr. Westfahl came into our room and read our white day book - "Pete the Cat I Love My White Shoes."  Students were bopping along and sing Pete's song along with Dr. Westfahl.  Ask them to sing you Pete's song!

Dr. Westfahl reading to the AM class.

Dr. Westfahl reading to the PM class.

After Dr. Westfahl read our book, students created a Pete the Cat with his own white shoes.  For snack, we had marshmallows.

Willy, Huck, Francisco, and Kennedy making their Pete (AM).

Miles and Derrick (PM).

Jo Lin and Tyler (PM). 

Finished product.

Pete.

Pink Day

Pink day was a class favorite!  We read "Pinkalicious," *frosted* (painted with a mixture of shaving cream and glue.  It makes the paint puffy and soft) pink cupcakes, and ate pink cupcakes!

Hazel, Huck, Willy, and Kennedy *frosting* their cupcakes (AM).

Frosted and sprinkles added. 

Yum!

My PM friends did not have a chance to frost their cupcakes yet.  We had an all school assembly on Friday afternoon.  We will frost them on Monday. 

Tomorrow is the last color day - gray day!  Then, we will begin talking about shapes.  

Enjoy your Sunday!

Love,

Miss Lucas

A Week In Review - September 10 - 14

What a fun week!  Everyone (including some staff members) have been so excited for our color days!

Yellow Day

I forgot to add this to our week in review last week!  We began our color week with yellow day!  First, we read "Little Yellow and Little Blue."

Bennett mixing his paint (AM).

Ella mixing paint (AM).

Maria mixing paint (AM).

Then, we mixed blue and yellow paint and found out we got green!

Blue Day

We began blue day by reading "Blueberries for Sal."  Then, we made *blueberry pies.*  The students loved putting the blueberries on their pie.

Sasha gluing down the crust (AM).

Yiwen and Kennedy working on their crust (AM).

Noah and Evi (AM).

The final product.

It looks good enough to eat!

Finally, we ate blueberries for our snack!

Willy enjoying his blueberries (AM).

Yiwen gobbled up his blueberries (AM).

Cate loved her blueberries (PM).

Red Day

Red day was a huge hit!  First, we read "The Little Mouse, the Red Ripe Strawberry, and the Big Hungry Bear."  Everyone laughed through the entire book!

Next, we made strawberry hats!

Reese working on his hat (AM).

Allison gluing down the stem (PM).

Finished hat.

Looking good (AM)!

And guess what we had for snack?  You guessed it - STRAWBERRIES!

Tyler eating his strawberries (PM).

Miles loves strawberries (PM)!

Orange Day

On Wednesday, we had orange day!  We read "The Big Orange Splot."

Then, we decorated houses to "look like our dreams."

Cheyanne and Ella working on their houses (AM).

Anna working on her house (AM).

La'mya and Yiwen working (AM).

Lilah's house (AM).

Ella's house (AM). 

Cate's house (PM).

Green Day

This has been my favorite day so far.  We started green day by reading "Go Away Big Green Monster!"

Then, we made our own Big Green Monster masks!

Bennett and Noah working (AM). 

Yiwen, Francisco and Sasha (AM).

Reese, Miles and Sullivan (PM).

Yiwen with his mask (AM).

Willy hiding behind his mask (AM). 

Reese behind his mask (PM).

 We also celebrated TWO birthdays in the morning!

Happy Birthday, Maria!

Happy Birthday, Hazel!

Black Day

On Friday, we celebrated black day!  We read "10 Black Dots."

We created pictures using black dots and ate black olives (not a class favorite)!

"Miles made flowers with 5 black dots." (PM)

"Allie made flowers with 3 black dots." (PM)

"Sasha made a silly ghost with 5 black dots." (AM)

"Willy made a machine with 2 black dots." (AM). 

"Ella made a duck with 1 black dot." (AM)

"Noah made a race car with 4 black dots." (AM)

"Hayden made a semi with 7 black dots." (PM)

Don't forget, tomorrow is purple day!

Love,

Miss Lucas