How Many Things Can You Cram in a Week?

Good question!

Monday, we celebrated Veteran's Day by reading a special book, and then getting a copy of a book that was created for 2nd grade students about veterans.  We also created special Veteran's Day thank you notes that we will be sending to the Louisa VFW!

Wednesday was our Field Trip to the Frontier Culture Museum.  Thank goodness the snow/cold weather held off.  It turned out to be a very nice day.  Check out some of our pictures below!

This coming week and next week, we will focus on turkeys, Thanksgiving, and of course, realizing everything we have to be thankful for!  Throw in some plural nouns, adjectives, and place value, and you have rounded out our week!  Please don't forget the "Turkey Projects" are due Wednesday, and that our Famous Americans test is THIS Tuesday!  Our next unit will be "Economics," which we'll finish after Thanksgiving break.

Enjoy the pics of our field trip - students had an awesome time and most said they'd love to go back! :)

Goonish Adjectives!

This week, we read the book "Goodnight Goon," which is a parody of the "Goodnight Moon."  We used adjectives to describe and design our own goon. Check out the pictures below. :)

As part of our reward for earning our 5 points for 5 days of winning our Scoreboard game, students completed a Fall Scavenger Hunt outside, then we met together inside and discussed what observed with our five senses (and added some adjectives in as well!).

We are continuing to work on our math unit and learning about our Famous Americans in History.  Students have really enjoyed learning about the different Americans!  We've been using our class wiki pages to view photos and watch short video clips about these Americans.  You can check them out {here} or use the link to the side for our class wiki pages for History and Science!

Next Monday is Veteran's Day. We'll be honoring our veterans by discussing and completing a craftivity!  Be sure to tune in for pictures next week! ;)

What Have We Been Up To?

As usual, it was a busy week with fitting many different activities in!  Our theme this week was pumpkins!

We added verb bats to our pumpkins!  By this Friday, we should have some falling leaves (with adjectives written on them of course!)

 We learned pumpkin facts, completed pumpkin glyphs, compared nonfiction/fiction books about pumpkins, and created an anchor chart about pumpkins!  Yes, it was a lot of orange this week. :)

 We also completed our Population Graph.  Did you know that the population of Louisa County is over 33,000 and that the population of Virginia is over 8 million?

 

Please don't forget about our field trip coming up next Wednesday, November 13th!  Please be sure your child has a way home since we will not return until 4:45 that day.  It's a WONDERFUL trip that we take each year.  It's outside, all day, and lots of walking - but there's nothing better than "hands-on" experience.  Speaking of hands-on, be looking for a note coming home about an "in-house" field trip we are doing.  It costs $1.25 per child and Jamestown and the Powhatan Indians come to US in our classrooms!  Students will be able to touch and discuss different aspects of the Powhatan's life and actual artifacts!

This week also heralds Election Day and next Monday is Veterans Day.  We'll be discussing both of these national holidays and completing activities.  Next theme?  Turkeys (of course)!

The End of October???

It's hard to believe that it's the end of October, already! 

This week, I wanted to feature our "Fun Fridays" for Writing.  During the week, students learn about grammar and proper sentence structure.  They practice it, but its in isolation.  So, on Fridays, we started putting what we've learned together, along with a special treat or craft, and created stories!

This week, our "Fun Friday" focused on apples.  Each student got half an apple and used adjectives to describe the apple (at least 2!) using their senses.  It was a great practice on adjectives and was "out of the box," so to speak, since students had to USE them and not simply find them in a paragraph, sentence, or story!

Check it out below:

This week, our activities include the BMX bike show on Monday (because so many students in our school participated in the fundraiser, EVERYONE gets to go!).  On Wednesday, it's "Book Character Dress Up Day."  On Wednesday, we'll also have some special seasonal centers during Math.  We'll end the week by finishing up our unit in History on "Community Changes:  Past and Present."

Looking forward to seeing those great Native American projects coming in on Monday! :)

A Busy Week....

This week was a busy one!  Between school pictures, School Lunch Week, and our Anti-Bullying Campaign kickoff, we've been swamped!  

This week, we finished our Native American Unit.  Don't forget that projects are due Tuesday, October 28!  We also had some garden time with Mrs. Jenny and are working on spooky grammar display outside our classroom!  So far, we have the noun pumpkin patch, on Friday we added our flying verb bats,and next week, we'll add some adjective leaves!

Coming up, we'll begin our unit on Community Changes for History, finish up our Geometry Unit in Math with a test on Wednesday, and begin Unit 3 on Place Value.  We'll also continue to use our adjectives in our writing.  Our focus in Reading is Nonfiction this nine weeks, and students will be learning about the conventions and studying various subjects!

Don't forget that October 31st is dress up as your favorite book character day!  I can't wait to see what everyone will be!  If you can, please send your child with the character's book!

What's Happening In Classroom 23?

Wow, the days are just flying by!  My apologies for not blogging last week!

We've been busy learning about Native Americans in class, as well as reviewing weather with "How to Make a Cloud" writing activity/craft.  Students are full steam ahead with our Geometry unit, and settled down into reading groups.  Other events have included "Read for the Record" where we listened to the story of "Otis" and learned about respect from the tractor, as well as our visiting meteorologist from Channel 29.  Coming up, we have our Anti-Bully Day on Friday, October 18, where everyone is encouraged to wear orange that day.  On Tuesday, look for the permission slip about our field trip on November 13 to the Frontier Culture Museum!

If you didn't sign up for parent conferences, it's not too late - please let me know a good time for you to meet!  Suggested times are on your child's form (with the exception of Monday).

Before we look at the photos of the week, please remember that our class is still in the running for Sonic to fund us two projects through "Limeades for Learning" (link to the side of the blog).  It's sooo easy - register your email and do a one time verification that you're real.  Then, type in keyword "Youel" (I'm the only one!) and vote!  You can vote once a day and there is no spam email, etc.  Also, you have a chance to earn a free cherry limeade from Sonic if enough people vote in October!  If you happen to GO to Sonic, please save your receipt!  There should be a code on there worth at least 2 votes!

Please vote!  Our class depends on you!