Saturday, October 27, 2012

Pumpkin Pumpkin!

Carnival and Octobers end....

This week we were busy making bracelets for the carnival.  Our room had the bracelet making/buying booth.  We had a great time this week making posters and patterns with the beads to make these beautiful bracelets.  We continued work on sequencing with my favorite fall books "Pumpkin Pumpkin' and "There Was an Old Lady Who Swallowed Some Leaves".  We sequenced the life cycle of a pumpkin and we predicted what would come next when we sang the Little Old Lady song from the previous week.  We love that story! 



Learning to use a computer...

David and Chase learning control with his hands for coloring.

Independent work.  Nice job boys!

Corey starting his sequence pumpkin.


Chase is starting to sort and learn his colors!

What are you serving up Christopher I am hungry!

Ms. G finishing off the pumpkins.

Our sequence chart.  I love how the boys tried to write the words!

3 pumpkins in a row!  Love them all!   Counting pumpkins and writing the number.

Nice Matthew...

Jonathan looking at his pumpkin life cycle words.



Tracing our sight words from our curriculum.

Good work Andre, getting better!

Corey is putting together the life cycle of a pumpkin...

Matching...

Matthew finishing his pumpkin


There was an old lady who swallowed some LEAVES!

What comes next Corey?


Matthew writing his name in shaving cream!




"What?!  I didn't do it!"





Ms. Claiborne is a princess!

Dancing at our assembly!



Waiting patiently for the basketball team!

Silly Andre!
Ms Krystal takes a great pic!

Here I am all professional looking!











Carnival fun!








Jags cheerleaders!























Class Video Of the Week!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XUQkOK2xLL0
Class Challenge Of the Week:
Get the Carnival up and running!
Class Goal Of the Week:
Get past the carnival so we can keep on working!
Parent Question of the Week:
"Will you have a Halloween Party?"
Well this is tough because there are many different beliefs all around our CSS unit.  We will not have a Halloween party per say, however, we will have a "fall ball" in our room.  The kids can dress up on Halloween and we will have music and treats for them in the room.  You are more than welcome to contribute or stop on by!









Saturday, October 20, 2012

Victory!!!!

Finally....a great team!

This week we got our new para in the classroom! Mrs. Ethel G.  She is amazing and loves on these boys like they are her own grandbabies...just what the teacher ordered! :) I love her style, spirit and patience.  Her facial expressions will have you in a fit of giggles and enjoying every minute of your day.  She is great!  OK, so this week, we mainly stuck with the curriculum, ( ok maybe a few art projects...) we are winding down the Fall portion of the curriculum, will do a bit of "Halloween" across the world next week and then we move into "giving thanks".  Please dress the kiddos up, we will have a Halloween party on Oct 31st and I will send home a sign up sheet for you all to pick an item to send in for the party!  You are more than welcome to stop in as well!  Enjoy the pics from the week and be on the look out for important papers in the home notes folder!

WELCOME TO OUR NEW LITTLE MAN PEYTON!


Some peer interaction time...

Building a House for Daisy.... from our ULS unit using shapes.

Keep it up Corey!


Super smart buddy!

Big or Little David?

Reward Time!

Our silly prek neighbors! Hi Mr. Franken! Hi Ms. Hall!



Teaching sequence of events from "There was an old lady who wasn't afraid"

Prediction charts are for everyone!

Making our sign for the fall carnival...its a competition!

We will WIN!

Our back up ;)




We are trying to learn in here Ms. Hall, quit being so silly!

Yay Matthew! You are a great reader!

Who is this new lady?!

OK....OK...she can help me...

Peyton making and labeling a spider!!!





Great work!


Chris is so proud!

My fall sorting game for the kids.....Bats/Pumpkins




The cubes help the boys know where I want them to color if they don't get my direction verbally.

Chris reading to Ms. Krystal

Having fun!?



Class Video Of the Week!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BiUflxXF-Zg
Class Challenge Of the Week:
Adjusting to our New Para and a New Student!
Class Goal Of the Week:
Finish our Fall Unit and move on
Parent Question of the Week:
"What do you do all day?"

WOWZA what don't we do!  Our day starts at 830 with breakfast.  We sit together until 845 when the morning meeting automatically goes off on the computer signaling the boys to clean up, check schedule and sit at morning circle.  At that time we have a 25 minute long morning circle which incorporates a lot of key elements.  Alphabet knowledge, number recognition, days of the week, months of the year, seasons, etc.  We also have seasonal and fun songs in there to motivate the boys and get them ready for the day.  After morning meeting we check schedule and start our four 20 minute rotation through literacy centers.  Work with teacher, independent work, art table and sensory table.  Each of those centers is literacy based.  After that we have lunch at 1030...yes very early.  We come back, have story time, recess and then regroup for afternoon circle which includes our math portion of the curriculum.  We complete small group math rotations and regroup again for our ULS ( social studies/sciences) lessons and finish out wiht social skills training.  By then it is time for reward/choice time and then snack.  Our day FLIES by!