November 9, 2012

It was wonderful to meet with so many of you yesterday at our parent/teacher conference.  I am looking forward to continued sharing next week too.


We are learning about:                                                 

• Veteran's Day
• spiders
• telling time to the half hour
• number bonds
• fact families
• blogging
• the sound short o makes in words like shop, owl and pot
• how to change our voices to match the characters in our books
• our nations' symbols

Some activities we did:

• celebrated Veteran's Day with a whole school morning meeting
• played what time is it?
• created November is.. books
• began practicing for the musical
• wrote persuasive papers to help decide what parts we wanted in the class play 
• began looking at different authors to help us with our writing
• played sight word bingo
• painted bald eagles

Poem of the Week:  This Pretty Spider

Upcoming Events:
November 12  No School Veteran's Day
November 14  Early Release parent/teacher conferences
November 21-23  No School Thanksgiving recess

December 5   This Old Gingerbread House  Musical  6:30 in the SMS cafe

Highlights from the fall festival