Pajama Day!!

Pajama Day was a lot of fun, not to mention comfortable! SY, WH and CK had the camoflauge thing going on.



HS and CG were twins for the day.

The students were so comfy they decided to give their teacher a break and take a little nap on the rug (just kidding!).

They wanted to pose this way, like "sausages" one student said.

Later in the afternoon Mrs. Roberts came in and did a lesson with us on Being Responsible, Being Safe and Being Respectful.

The students gave her examples of how to be reponsible, safe and respectful while here at school and Mrs. Roberts used our Elmo to write down their ideas.

The students then signed a poster that said they pledge to be drug free. KC was the first to sign.

AC signed the poster next.

By the end of the day all of the students had a chance to sign their names to the poster. Mrs. Roberts made a bulletin board outside her room where she is going to display the posters for everyone to see.

Backwards/Inside Out Day

We love Red Ribbon Week! Today was a lot of fun as the students came in wearing their clothes backwards or inside out or both! We talked about how living a life with drugs is not a good thing and that we are celebrating living a healthy lifestyle by doing something special each day this week. Here are some inside out kids:

Here are a lot of backwards kids:

And here are the backwards and inside out kids! This of course has nothing to do with their personalities!

Today we also got to know CZ a little better. He brought his poster in to share with the class and we learned all about his family and some things he likes about himself as well.

In the afternoon we went to the computer lab so I could show the students how to use spellingcity.com. We learned how to choose our class list as well as how to play all of the games. I sent home a paper on how to do this same thing at home with your students today. I hope you get a chance to see it in action - it's a really cool thing for your students! SF made sure to bring his spelling words with him so he could look at them if he needed to during the games.

JW played Hang Mouse several times - I don't kow if he played any other game, he enjoyed this one so much!

BZ enjoyed Hangmouse also but she made sure to try all of the games out before she settled on a favorite.

TT and CG are focused on their screens.

Here are a couple of the games the students were able to play: Word Search and HangMouse .

At the end of the day before we had our reading skill groups I passed out pennies for those students who had good behaviour. RH was my helper of the day and so she was in charge of The Bank. Students would bring their money to her to exchange for bigger coins. She did a great job double-checking their counting and helping them choose the correct coins to trade in.

Monster Stories and Wearing Red!

This last week we worked on creating monster stories. First we went to the computer lab and visited crayola.com and created the monster. You get to chose different tops and bottoms for you monster. Here TVN is getting ready to type in the name of his monster.


This is what the page looks like when you are creating your monster.

After we printed out and colored our pictures we got busy writing different facts about our monsters. Each child decided what their monster liked to eat, where it lived, what it's bad habits were and what it did for fun on Halloween. RH is using a graphic organizer to collect her thoughts before she turns her ideas into a paragraph.

WH is working on his paragraph.

AC is finished with his picture and paragraph. He chose black paper for the background and he's ready to show everyone!

Last Friday everyone wore red to show awareness of Red Ribbon Spirit week. We had an assembly and it was really fun seeing everyone in the same color!

Here we are at the assembly. We had such good behavior that the secret judges chose us to win the primary behavior trophy. When you win the trophy you get to display it in your room for a whole month and you get a little prize as well. We received Sherwood Panther Pencils that change colors as you hold them. They are really cool!

This was our first awards assembly. I chose 6 students to receive an award for respectful behavior. It was very hard to chose! I ended up picking KC, KW, IH, CZ and BZ. I had also chose TG but she moved before I could give her the award.

Here is CZ, BZ, KC and KW back in the classroom after the assembly. They were very proud of their awards.

Look at that well-behaved class!

CF was our Star of the Week this week. Her mom told me at conferences that Carli created this poster all by herself! That must have taken a lot of time and creativity. Good job C!

Saying hello and goodbye

This week we got to know CB and BG a little better. They both had a lot of pictures and stories to share with the class.












This week we also got our letters from our 2nd grade pen pals at McKay Creek Elementary. They did an awesome job on their pictures and letters. When I told my students that the letters had arrived they yelled so loud I had to shut the door! They were very excited and the letters were read again and again! Thank you pen pals for the candy also!


CB read his letter 5 times before he was ready to put it into his scrapbook. :)

HS was very excited because her pen pal was a girl who also liked horses.

SY said he thinks his pen pal plays soccer and he hopes to see him at a game.

It was a sad day when we had to say good-bye to TG. Her family has moved to Stanfield and we are excited for her but very sad to see her leave our room. NH wanted to leave her with a smile so she put on her silly glasses and sure enough, TG laughed and smiled through her tears.

KC also gave TG a big hug on her way out the door.

We will miss you T!!!

Animal Reports

Our animal reports have taken us a couple of week to complete but now that they are done they are very cool! The students first had to choose an animal that they wanted to learn more about and then we went to the computer lab and printed out pictures of that animal. Here IH and SY are looking at google images of great white sharks. The students chose 6 pictures to print out for their book.



Once the students had their pictures they cut them out to fit their pages and glued 1 picture on to each page of the book. AC and KC are working together.

WH chose to do his report on the gray wolf. He found a lot of neat pictures for his book.

CF chose the spotted leopard and here she is showing the cover of her book without the title on it yet.

Once the students had their picture in the books, the hard part began. I printed out information on their animals and they had to read and find the answers to questions like what their animal looked like, what they ate, where they could be found, what enemies they had and how they defended themselves.

Once the students had answered all their questions they began to write sentences into their books that told all about their animals. In this picture TT is using her information to write a page on pugs.

In this picture KW is writing a page about how cheetahs hunt for food.

As the students completed their books, I took a few pictures of them. HS, PB and KC are showing off their books. They did a great job!

TVN chose the horned lizard, CG chose the appaloosa horse and CK chose the liger which is a combination of tiger and lion. The students shared their books when we were all done and you will be seeing them in a class book sometime after Christmas.