2015_01_14 Wednesday

From Elise's teacher: Hello, Today we talked about who Martin Luther King jr was. I read a nat geo kids book on MLK. We talked about how there is a holiday to remember him (No school on Monday). We talked about what a Nobel Peace Prize is and why he received it. X asked what a speech was as we were discussing. We learned the words violence and protest as well. We talked about his famous speech. They drew a picture of people showing love and care toward each other. We also discussed day/night for science. I read the book What Makes Day and Night and I used a globe and a flashlight to show what happens and when we get sunlight. They had French. 

Show and tell shares: 
Elise- for my show and tell, I brought a soft blanket and a hard playmobile trophy toy. 

2015_01_13 Tuesday

From Elise's teacher: Hello, We had calendar time in the morning and reviewed our 100s chart. Today we talked about bedtime opposites such as open (eyes)/closed, asleep/awake. I read the books Daytime Nighttime, Exactly the Opposite, Hiding Hippos counting from 1-10. We spent some time for recess inside and outside. X , X and X had some time on the kindle. X and Elise played addition Zingo. 

What are you looking forward to this month? 
Elise - I am looking forward to backwards day. 

Jonathan had a really rough late morning (he was up and dressed and ate mostly fine); I'm guessing he didn't get enough sleep last night, but I'm not sure because all I got from him was grunts and monosyllables. Teacher said he did great, so maybe it was bad mojo in the house. He also dropped the F-word, quite accurately I might add, over breakfast, so we had to un-do that. ;o\

2015_01_12 Monday

From Elise's teacher: Today we talked about feelings. We came up with opposite feelings such as sad/happy, nice/rude. I read a book Feelings: Jealous. We talked a lot about this emotion and what we should do if someone is jealous or if we feel jealous. We talked about how we should try to make the person feel better if they are jealous or angry. We then made 3 emotion masks using paper plates. I wrote the emotion they told me on the plates. They had Mandarin. We worked on the letter of the week Nn. We came up with words for that letter.

Tell me about one time you were jealous and what you did to stop being jealous:
Ah somehow forgot to get Elise's response! Sorry! She did understand the book really well and helped interpret the pictures in it. 

2015_01_09 Friday

From Elise's teacher: Hello, We had calendar time in the morning. Today we did free art with markers while listening to loud/ soft music and they had to color fast/slow. X and X worked on Popsicle sticks sight words. X  and X worked on beginning sounds and CVC words with heart halves picture cards. X and X worked on beginning sounds. X also worked on numbers 1-10. Elise and I read 4 short books about animals. We had music time at the end. We listened to Shake with Shaker Eggs and used the shaker eggs. We had indoor recess. We played matching games. They had German. 

What did you like doing today?
Elise- my fav part about school was doing indoor recess. 

From Reading Club: Hello! Hope everyone enjoyed the holidays! On Tuesday, X , X , and Elise completed the booklet What Can We Draw?, they completed a new yrs color by number worksheet. They each made up and wrote a sentence about winter on a sentence strip. They tried to spell the words themselves as best they could.  On Wednesday, X worked on word in. And we worked on the happy new year sheet together. X , X and Elise played picture Zingo as well as number Zingo games. We all read Dinosaur and Dragon Are friends and Otter Helps Beaver. Short books that teach specific sight words. They also completed booklet On the Big Bed. On Thursday, X and Elise took turns on the kindle. We all went over flash cards. X and Elise worked on the word need. X worked on word see. We all played number Zingo. Elise played with popcorn sight words. X and I read BOB books. 

2015_01_08 Thursday

From Elise's teacher: Today we had a busy day indoors. We had calendar time. We are going over the months of the year now. I read the book Good News, Bad News about a rabbit and rat going on a picnic and good and bad things happen to them. I also read Small, Medium, Large a book about sizes. We talked about different vocabulary words to mean small or big. They then drew an object in 3 different sizes and told me their words for each size from the book. Mr. Travis came to do a music demo and they got to sing and dance and meet his puppet friends! We went over sight words flash cards. We also worked in our journals on handwriting for letter Mm. We had indoor recess with ms Ann's class. 

Show and tell shares: 
Elise- I didn't bring my show and tell but I know sight words that start with m--make, me, my. 

2015_01_07 Wednesday

From Elise's teacher: Hello, Today we talked about opposites with our sense of touch such as soft/hard. We tried to think of different words to describe something that's hard or soft such as fluffy or rough. Each student then chose 2 objects that were opposites to glue on their paper. And then they came up with their 2 opposite words and wrote them down. We also talked about position words. They had to follow directions on a worksheet that I called out such as color the animals above the dog yellow. We drew 3 Mm pictures in our folder - mom, muffin, monkey. They had French today. I read Dinosaur Opposites. We sang and danced as I read If it's snowy and you know it, Clap Your Paws. 
What are 2 opposites that relate to texture? 
Elise- 2 opposites are spiky and bumpy 

2015_01_06 Tuesday

First day back to school -- yippeee!!

From Elise's teacher: Hello and welcome back everyone!! Hope everyone had a great holiday season! The students shared their adventures from the last 2 weeks. We had calendar time in the morning where we discussed the new year and new month. This month is about Opposites. We talked about some examples of opposites. Each student said a pair of opposites. Then I and X stood next to each other and the other students said things that were opposite about us such as tall/short, boy/girl. We talked about all the fun things we have to look forward to this month! Our letter of the week is Mm. We discussed words that start with m. We talked about New Years resolutions and I told them that that was another word for goal and that's something we can accomplish. Then we all set a goal for ourselves for the rest of the school year before we go to Kindergarten! We cut and sequenced New Yrs hats and fireworks from biggest to smallest and from smallest to biggest for math. They had Spanish today. We went outside for a little bit. We played with playdoh at the end of the day. 

What is your New Year's resolution or goal for school? 

Elise- My goal is to cut better.