Holiday surprise

On our last day before Christmas break, my daughter and I decorated the classroom for the students! 

They loved it, we spent most if the day with only the Christmas lights on and I have already taken it down so that our maintenance coordinator would be happy! ;)

Our visit from the best Firefighters

We had a wonderful visit during the month of October, which was fire safety month!
Mr. Jackson and Mr. Robinson discussed many fire safety reminders! Then we all got to try on the gear! 

Mrs. Underwood and Mr. Robinson

Firefighter Olivia

Firefighter Matti

Firefighter Vivi

Firefighter Rylee

Firefighter Layla

Firefighter Emily

Firefighter Aidan

Firefighter Lucas

Firefighter Luke

Firefighter Logan

Firefighter Tyler

Firefighter Eriq

Firefighter Rylan

Firefighter Sienna

Firefighter Parker

Firefighter Josh

We practiced "get low, and go"!

Literacy Parade 2013

The whole crew!

Mr. Strickland gave us a goal of 20 Accelerated Reader points for the year! We will soon begin learning how we can start getting points!

I had to post pics of my own...her is the rockstar Wren!

Our little Duck Commander Ryker!

I hope you and your family enjoyed Halloween, next....Thanksgiving!

Grouping tens and ones lesson

http://www.educreations.com/lesson/view/grouping-stars/12977813/?ref=app

Click the above link to watch our math lesson today! The kids wanted me to post this so that their parents could see! :)

Planet Presentations

Our class has been working very diligently on researching planets. Partners worked together to research one planet and then individually each student created an Educreations presentation on their chosen planet. These are fantastic for their first time creating, explaining, and then posting their presentation on their blog! I am very proud of them and can't wait to see more!

Aidan on Planet Mars

Layla on Planet Mercury

Tyler on Planet Uranus

Rylee on Planet Earth

Sienna on Planet Saturn

Logan on Planet Mars

Emily on Uranus

Luke on the Dwarf Planet Pluto

Eriq on Planet Venus

Parker on Planet Jupiter

Using our Schema to Make Connections

Our first comprehension strategy we are learning, is how to make connections using our schema. Schema is all the stuff that is already inside our heads, our prior experiences. If you have never lost a tooth,then it's hard to understand what it feels like to loose a tooth, so you don't have any schema for loosing a tooth. But if you have lost a tooth, then you know what that's like and can make connections to someone who has also lost a tooth. 

In class we are reading stories that we may connect to and then sharing our connections with the class. We will build our confidence with using our schema and making connections and then our focus will be on making meaningful connections...

Corn Maize!!!!

The day finally arrived and our excitement couldn't be contained inside, good thing we were headed to the Sykes and Cooper Corn Maize! Here are the pictures from THE best Field Trip EVER! :)

On the Bus ready to get there already!

We were following the Pink flag!

Here we go...into the Corn! 

It was HOT!!!

It was past our lunch time!

What a Silly group

The Corn Popper was my Favorite!

I think Mrs. Schmidt liked the Corn Popper too!

The Corn Box, no sand...lots of Corn!

 What a Group! We had so much fun on the Hay Ride...
There aren't any pumpkins because they had too much rain in the spring and the first crop of pumpkins drowned out! :(

What a great day at the Corn Maize!