Busy Bats!

On Monday's we go and read with our fourth grade buddies!

We take turns. Sometimes we read to them......

......and sometimes they read to us!

We are learning about nouns!

In our noun book we had to draw a picture for each category of noun: 

person, place, thing or animal!

We have some bats in our classroom! We had to write a describing word on our bats.

We also sorted through some facts and opinions about bats. 

We decided that facts are something that is true, where as opinions are something that we might think - but everyone might not agree.

One of our math centers was to sort math facts into three categories:

more than 5, less than 5 or doubles.

We also had to decide if story problems wanted us to add or subtract.

We added new number puzzles. Some of them are in the hundreds!

At another math center we had to figure out what number the base ten blocks represented.

We read the story Stellaluna, after reading we made a venn diagram comparing bats and birds.

We even got to see a real bat in a jar!!

In our journal we wrote about what we would do if we had a pet bat.

One of our new favorites during read to self is our Reader's Theatre. 

We get to put on plays together!

We have so much fun together!

We're in for a wild week of Halloween!

Thank goodness it's on a Thursday this year!:)

Bats

Bats

I hope your kiddos have been enlightening you with all of their knowledge of bats!

Thought I would share our new favorite song!

Warning: It will get stuck in your head.

What in the world have we been up to?

Lots  and lots of math!

During math fact centers we get to use the lap tops!

We have been working on ordering numbers! It gets tricky when we throw in some hundreds!

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One of our favorites is our 120 puzzles. We have to put a 0-120 chart back together like a puzzle! Some of them are tricky!

Patterning on the Smart board.

One of our Daily 5 word work centers is building words with magnets.

We have to figure out some texting codes, with our cell phones.

Play do is a favorite Fun Friday center.

So are beads at the Art table!

The library is always free during Fun Friday!

Stickers at the Art table are a hot commodity.

We like to play teacher at the white board.

Read-a-thon

Our class book was "The Tiny Seed", so of course a flower pot was the only costume choice!

L. was the GRAND prize winner for first grade!

She was very excited!

As a school we raised just under $15,000!!!!!

AWESOME!

We are working on problem solving!

Ms. Nelson shared a lesson on good listening during Guidance.

We had to follow 3-step directions.

We also played telephone. We had some funny sayings at the end.

We really like working in our math journals.

Spider addition and tallies!

Our listening center is visited frequently.

This was a tricky math center. We had to choose a number in the middle and figure out what was one more, one less, ten more and ten less!

Row, Row, Row by Ten!

Each morning we have to build a number using our base ten blocks.

Being silly with our snack!

Another 7 year old in the books!

We had a fire fighter visit our classroom.

We had fun learning about all the different tools fire fighters use.

That fire fighter happens to be pretty special to a certain someone in our class:)

We wrote all the fire fighters letters telling them why they are our heroes.

Mrs. Glick's and Mrs. Cassellius' classes.

Enjoy our little Fall break!