Welcome!

Our blog is officially up and running!  Thank you for taking time to "check it out" and see what will be happening in our classroom this week.

The new technology that I spoke of in the last blog is up and running.  We are using the interactive whiteboard as part of our center rotation.  The students are LOVING it!!  More on centers in a bit...

We are on sight word week 7 this week.  Please continue to practice reading and spelling those words as we will be taking a spelling test on Friday.

We will be finishing up handwriting this week.  Spelling will be taking it's place starting next week.

In math, we will be starting a new chapter today.  We will be working on making exchanges (borrowing), place value, and greater than/less than this week.

Our reading story this week is a nonfiction piece called Snakes.  We will be reading lots of stories about snakes, talking about our vocabulary words (where, why, know, under), learning about long a sounds, and reviewing contractions.

We will be finishing  up the book Pippi Longstocking this week and we will celebrate by watching the movie on Friday.  We will be having a discussion about how the book and the movie are the same and how they are different.

Our class has started working on centers this week.  I will be working with small groups during center time.  This will allow me to give those kids that need it a little extra help, and challenge those kids who need to be challenged.  The students are pretty excited about it, especially since they get to use the interactive whiteboard, computers, and iPads!

Please remember that there is no school next Monday due to Martin Luther King Jr. Day.  We will be reading about Martin Luther King Jr. on Friday of this week.

Have a great week!!