Thursday, September 18, 2014

This week in the Seal Class

This week we:

  • celebrated Dot day
  • wrote small moment stories
  • had visitors from UNH
  • played concentration with our spelling words
  • practiced rereading our books in a story teller voice
  • sang our short vowel songs
  • learned how to use the white boards as tools
  • created beautiful pictures with dots
  • celebrated two birthdays
  • began brown bag share
  • finished reading My Fathers Dragon
  • played math games on a life size number grid
  • observed a peach, an apple and a banana peel in the compost bin
  • wondered about the change to the caterpillars in class
  • continued to work hard and have fun

If you would like to join Remind (an easy way to get a last minute message about an upcoming event as a text) please:
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with the message @sealclass

We watched a great video in class on composting.  It has really inspired us! http://vimeo.com/84748263

I hope you enjoy the pictures from our week!



Learning how to use the instruments in our classroom.

The Seals love playing memory with their spelling words.  






Celebrating Dot Day at SMS.




Happy Birthday!  We celebrated three birthdays this week!


Writing small moment stories.

We are so lucky to have visitors from the UNH teaching program visit us every Wednesday.


Drawing our favorite characters from My Father's Dragon

Writer's Workshop share


 Brown bag share... We love learning all about each other!


Special guest readers all the way from the third grade!

A visit from Delaney.  She even let us try on her crown!























Sunday, September 14, 2014

Reminders

We have a busy week at SMS!

  •  International Dot Day Tomorrow/Monday 9/15 - If possible, please have your child wear dots to school.
  • EARLY RELEASE this Wednesday, September 17th at 12:50.
  • Picture Day  Thursday, September 18th.