Category: School News

Today is Friday!

Friday in class is called “Fantastic Fridays“.

On Fantastic Fridays, they attend music class with Mr. G, just like on Wednesdays. My class, the 3 year olds,  also had music with Mr. G today. They were captivated by him and his guitar!

Today is also the Friday Folder, which is folder filled with all of the weeks graded work. Isabel’s was stuffed this week! They really do a lot of work each week!

This is the clown I mentioned before that were hanging the classroom for a while, she got to bring it home.
I love that her clown is the only one with it’s feet turned inward!

Who can make a rainbow?
There is a little song, that she sings with this as well.

There is a new bulletin board in class. It’s a place where Teacher Mrs. B puts up students work that is fantastic.

Math packet that was on the board.

Her number writing has improved so much since school began.
She really focuses on doing her work well.

Back of math packet.
She did each page correct and complete.

This is part of her math homework that she does every day after school. She completes one side at school and then the other side is homework at home. The next day she hands it in and then we wait until Friday to see how she did. This week she got all the answers right. (I later learned that 1 of the papers from the week was on the bulletin board in class – probably get it next Friday.)

 There is more homework in the Friday Folder but I’m not going to post it all. She did a great job this week on all her work.

Thursday in class is called “Thankful Thursdays“.

Thankful Thursday is also P.E. with Mrs. S and computer lab with Mrs. T. For P.E. today they did running in the gym and played a game like dodge ball too.

In computer lab today, they did more AR testing. The school (all together) has already read over 3 million words!! Their goal for the school year is to read 50 million words!! Wow!

The story of Noah is coming to an end and today the class made
these cute “puffy” rainbows. After cutting it out, the class filled it with shredded paper.

Learning about contraction word’s. I love her coma’s!
This is great I don’t remember learning this in first grade.

Learning the correct way to form a sentence.
Capital letter to begin and then a period or explanation point at the end!

Unscrambling the sentence correctly. Fantastic work!

I am working all this week with the elementary side and then switching back over to the preschool side on Thursday. I will be helping with the opening, helping in the kindergarten class and covering all the morning recesses. Today was a good day, I was a bit confused with what and where to go but that all passed when I was handed my own WHISTLE!!! Whewww!! Whew! Whew!

Monday in class is called “Marvelous Monday”!

Marvelous Mondays are also All-School Open, the school assembly that is held first thing each Monday of the week.

Today we had a guest speaker,  Mr. Sigmund Brouwer author of several children’s books. He spoke about his literacy program “Cool 2 Read“. It was a great assembly with a lot of audience participation!! The kids loved it!!

Isabel also did some AR testing today. She said she missed a few questions on one of the tests but got all the answers right on 2 others.

Front: beautiful phonics work.

Back: spelling words are beautiful too! Her writing has really improved!

Front: rhyming words.

Back: rhyming words.

Isabel was excited to see me at recess and I enjoyed seeing her in action with the other kids. I’ll be out there through Wednesday with my new WHISTLE!! Wheww!!

Thursday in class is called “Thankful Thursdays“.

Thankful Thursday is also P.E. with Mrs. S and computer lab with Mrs. T.

I forgot to mention yesterday; that the class had their first science experiment (again; reminder to take the camera to class)! Isabel was very excited to tell me all about it! Sounds like fun.

The focus of the experiment was states of matter; solid, liquid and gas. They used antacid tabs in water to observe different states of matter.

Her worksheets from the science experiment.
Below is the Bible verse connection for this experiment…

“If then you were raised with Christ, seek those things which are above, where Christ is, sitting at the right had of God. Set your mind on things above, not on things on the earth. For you died, and your life is hidden with Christ in God. When Christ who is our life appear, then you also will appear with Him in glory. Colossians 3:1-4

Today however is Wonderful Wednesday! Today is music class with Mr. G.

For music class today, they listened to an Elmo CD. Elmo played a game with the kids, were they had to listen to sounds and then tell Mr. G what that sound was. Isabel said at one point they even got to be the conductor! That was really fun! Afterward they used rhythm sticks, she said she used her sticks like a violin and other instruments.

Teacher Mrs. B finished their lunch time book series today by author Stephen Cosgrove from the “Land of Barely There“.

The school had their first earthquake drill. Isabel said she was able to get quickly under her desk for the practice.

For math they worked with Geoboards making different shapes; equilateral triangles, isosceles triangles, rectangles, squares, and numbers. Great early introduction to Geometry!

Great spelling/writing exercise.

Sentence writing.

Decide which word works best and sentence building.
This is great! I have begun to notice her using punctuation more and more.

Today is Terrific Tuesday which means it’s Chapel and library day!

When we arrived at class this morning Isabel had me wait around (which wasn’t long), so that I could “see” the new girl, Fiona. I guess it was important for me to “see” her!

Her adorable Chapel dress for today.
Who would have thunk orange and purple would go together! So cute!

Today was the first day of “Family Chapel”. Family Chapel is a mixed age group of kids, lead by a sixth grader. The sixth grader usually gives a lesson and then afterward they have a open discussion about the lesson that was given. Family Chapel is held in a classroom (not the church sanctuary like normal Chapel) and is held once a month or so. Isabel said she is the only first grader in her “family” Chapel group. When I asked her what they did together she said they colored a picture and talked about the theme verse for school this year.

“Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind and with all your strength.” Mark 12:30

After lunch recess they headed to the library to exchange their books.
This week she got another Berenstain Bears’ book.
(I’ll have her read it to me tomorrow)

Following rules, problem solving.
This is the first time I’ve noticed writing backward letters.

Finished up the story of Noah today and then did a dot-to-dot.

Noah listened and obeyed God, even when everyone around him thought he was silly.

** HOMEWORK! **

After she finished her math homework, at the bottom of the page was a activity. I had her go around the house and gather 2 or 3 different items that were the same and bring them to the table. I then had her sort the items into groups depending how similarities of the items she brought.

1. 3 cans of green beans
2. 3 spoons
3. 2 wrapped candies
4. 2 plastic wheel pieces
5. 3 green beans
6. 2 soft lovable Lula’s

Above the items are sorted into shiny and non shiny items.

Above items are sorted by shape, round and not round, and Lula shaped!

Above items are sorted by weight, heavy items and lighter items.

She also sorted the items by what you eat or eat with and items that you don’t eat or eat with. She also sorted the items by what they were made of, metal and non metal, also soft and hard items, and lengthwise, short/tall, as well. She did a great job. Hopefully she learned that even though these items are very different, they actually are very similar. Great lesson.

Friday in class is called “Fantastic Fridays“.

On Fantastic Fridays, they attend music class with Mr. G, just like on Wednesdays.

Fridays are also “Friday Folder” days. However, this Friday Teacher Mrs B gave Isabel all the wrong school work for the week. So on Monday, I’ll have to get that exchanged.
I later learned that a parent helper was the one who got the homework mixed up, which can happen when there is an Anabella, Isabella, and an Isabel in class.