Presidents, Measurements, and Store!

Even though Halloween was over we read one more Halloween story. Our pen pals at McKay Creek Elementary had done a play with this story and we wanted to read the book before we watched their performance. So we read...

Then we watched the performance on their blog ...

Then we gave them a big Sherwood clap because they did such a great job! Way to go pen pals!

Election Day was very exciting. All of the students voted in the cafeteria and in the classroom we talked about what exactly the president does. Then we created a class book called "If I was the president ... " The students had some great ideas. Here SF and CK are busy writing their ideas down.

BZ and AC would make very different presidents. BZ said that she would help people in need by giving them food and AC said that he would be rich for his family so he could buy things that they like. All the ideas were great and you will see them in our class book after the Christmas Break.

CK was our Star of the Week and he brought in 3 very special necklaces to share with us on his poster. One necklace was from his great-grandpa, another from a visit to Silverwood and yet another from a trip to the coast.

CK also finished his math level 1. What a great week for him! He earned a special award as well as a quarter to spend at store.Way to go C!

On Friday we had store. The students take their money they have earned for good behavior and they get to buy things. This is a big day for them because it only happens once a month. They count their money daily in anticipation.

The student helper of the day gets to help people "check out" at store. BZ was a great clerk as well as salesman. She not only encouraged people to choose things in their budget but to select things they could really use! I see great things in her future!

We started measuring with rulers this week. We also have started talking about the difference between inches, feet and yards and how to select the appropriate measuring tool. We measured all kinds of things.

Can't Be Missed!

Now that November is here, Sherwood has started their I Love to Read program again. Each student receives a reading log like this one and students are asked to record the minutes that they spend reading at home. At the end of the month students bring back their reading log and they earn books for their charm necklaces. The class that brings back the most reading logs also wins a prize. Keep up that reading!! If your child has lost this paper send me a note and I can send another one home.

Last week was so busy that I didn't get a chance to post all of our fun pictures. You have to see these! These are from crazy hair day and they are some of my favorites. We had spiky hair...

Colored hair...

Crazy hair... well it might have looked ok from the front but when they turned around...

It definitely wasn't normal!

Something to brag about is that CZ passed all of his math facts for level 1. That's 18 tests were he was timed and had to complete a certain amount of addition problems. He got an award and 25 cents to spend in the classroom store! Way to go!

Halloween!!!

Halloween was a fun day for everyone. We came to school dressed in orange and black for Red Ribbon Week and then in the afternoon we changed into our costumes.

We had all kinds of costumes. These two were twins for the day.

CK was a really scary zombie.

After we changed we sat down and got ready for the Costume Parade to begin. Once people walked through our classroom we joined the parade and walked through all the classrooms until we got back to our own room.

Once the parade had ended we got busy playing some games and eating some treats. Wonder Woman (aka BZ) taught KW how to play checkers.

RH coached a group of boys on how to play UNO. She was the only girl brave enough to tell them all what to do. That's our girl!

CG and IH played several games of checkers.

I got several pictures of students with food in their mouths. Here BG just ate a huge bite of cupcake. NH and TT saw me coming and got their smiles ready.

Bad in Black!

Darth Vader (WH) took a break to rest on one of the beanbags.

That's quite the Jack-o-Lantern!

All in all it was a great afternoon and I hope all the kids had a great time that night as well!

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.