The leprechaun is back!

The leprechaun has returned, and he thinks he has found our pot of gold! They are actually several of our reading is golden coins!

How To books!

Earlier this week, we introduced How To books. Today, we got to act out our books with a partner!  Some of us realized that a few steps were missing or even out of order.  We were excited to use the revising pen, add pictures, and staple new pages to our books! 

Happy birthday Dr. Seuss!

Today was our school wide celebration to kick off March is reading month! Many students and staff dressed as a Dr. Seuss character!

Number Representations and number stories!

Today we worked on creating number representations and number stories! We used manipulatives to find our solution and explained to the class how we found them!

The following are number representations for ten!

Number story: There were four red flowers in a garden. Two more flowers grew. How many flowers are in the garden?

Everyone used their manipulatives to find the correct answer! So we moved to subtraction!

A monkey had ten bananas. He ate four bananas. How many are left?

Ten...

take away four

equals six!

Presidents' Day!

Our weekly reader was about George Washington and Abraham Lincoln. We also read two non-fiction books about them!

George Washington's image is on the quarter and one dollar bill!

Abraham Lincoln's image is on the penny and five dollar bill!

Happy 100th Day and Valentine's Day!!

What a wonderful, happy day!  Today, we celebrated the 100th day of school!  First, we read a book about 100 hiding pigs, then we realized that 100 pigs were hiding in our room.

 We looked everywhere! Do you see any?

We used this graph to help us keep track of the numbers we found! 

Just a few left to find! I am sure the class will find the rest at free choice.

We then broke off into centers.  We worked in teams to build with 100 cups:

We used Playdoh to make and read numbers:

We used the 1-0-0 to make and label creative drawings

A monster truck

A butterfly

A ghost

And finally, we colored a graphed our results

Enjoy the pictures from our Valentine's Day party! Kim and Jessica and all the parents who joined us were wonderful help. Thank you for all your hard work and taking the time out of your busy schedule to visit the classroom.  

A visit from the dentist!

This morning, we got a visit from Dr. Fry, a local dentist!  He taught us about brushing our teeth, getting dental x-rays, and talked about the tools the dentist uses.  We also learned that the best time to brush your teeth is at night-- when you go to sleep, the germs in your mouth go to sleep, too!  We also got some goodies to take home.  Thank you, Dr. Fry!