REALLY!?

Wow has it really been 5 months since my last post? I am ashamed of myself!! We all know how busy the end of the school year gets but I MUST get better at this! My new school year resolution is to keep my blog up to date!!! My students loved updating it with me I have to do that more often!!

It has been a busy summer. School really is my home away from home! Thankfully I could get into my classroom all summer because I had so much to do after moving rooms at the end of the year. Yup that's right you can find me in Room 64 this year!! I am so blessed that the parting teacher left me a room full of goodies and I am SO ready to put it to use! It was exhausting going through all of the stuff she left before I could move my own stuff in but I have most of it where I want it and the rest will find it's place soon!

In between unpacking I found time to make some new stuff courtesy of PINTEREST! I will have to snap some pictures next week during planning week and share :)

But before planning week is one last weekend of summer!!I'll be making the most of it :)

I hope you all have a great weekend and check back next week for pictures from my classroom!

Spring Break!!

It's not often that I have nothing to do for a whole week so I am enjoying every moment of this spring break. I will say I did miss teaching after just a few days out in the sun. So I took Leigha up to the classroom and taught her a thing or two...

 She listened to a lesson on the carpet... following all 5 carpet rules may I add...

...a little computer time to play on Compass Odyssey...

 ... independent reading in the library...

...and lastly, finding numbers on the number line!

We had a great day at school, and I rewarded her with a trip to the beach afterwards. :)

Enjoy your week friends!

Cat in the Hat!

The Cat in the Hat came out of storage today :) The kids LOVED getting their pictures taken next to Cat!

We read the The Cat in the Hat and The Cat in the Hat Came Back and compared the two using our nifty hula hoop venn diagram.

Leap day was exhausting... glad it won't be back for four years! :)

Dr. Seuss

This week is one of my FAVORITES because we get to celebrate one of my favorite authors: Theodore Seuss Giesel, or Dr. Seuss!!

Friday is his actual birthday but we are getting ready by reading as many Dr. Seuss books as possible! Each morning students vote on which book they want to read using the cubes. Then we look at our graph and read the winning book!

Yesterday we had time to read two of the books and we added them to the book log to the right of the books. We're hoping we can fill up the log by Friday!

On Friday we will read my FAVORITE book The Lorax. Too bad we can't take a class field trip to see the Lorax movie that opens this weekend!



Check back later this week for more Seussy updates!

Interviews

Today was one of the best days! I LOVE when the kids really get into our lessons and they certainly did today during Writer's Workshop.

We are getting ready to start Animal Reports next week, so to prepare we are doing personal reports. After watching a Barbara Walters interview with Obama, we learned about professionalism and how to conduct an interview. Then each student got to interview a friend today!

They looked like real professionals! It brought a smile to my face and to my heart! Can't wait to put the information in sentence form tomorrow :)

Did you notice?

Your kids helped me update the blog today! I hope you enjoy this idea, I sure do! I hope that we can do this together as a class at least once a week because the kids really liked it, and they love getting their "names" (initials) next to their thoughts!

Nonfiction FUN

This week we started learning about NONFICTION BOOKS!

This is what the kids said about nonfiction:
* it's real -N.H.
* it will teach you something S.B.
* it gives us more information- I.R.
* it tells you about real things - A.A.
* it is real information - E.E.



We began making a features book where we spend a day talking about a feature, and we write about what that feature is, and how it helps us. Then we get to draw a picture of the feature. (L.W)

Today we learned about photographs and we made our photograph features page. Check out I.R's wonderful work!

Check back daily for more updates from Miss Bowes and her Smarties (C.B came up with that nickname)

Get out and explore NF! (J.Z)