Reading competition

We were impressed by the amount of reading that was done during the Read-A-Thon. It is a little disconcerting to see the lack of continued interest in reading since then.  Mrs. Ross and I were discussing this and thinking of methods to keep up the excitement and continued reading.  We have decided to have an ongoing contest.  We have reading logs in homework folders on which the students should record their reading. Parents need to initial the reading minutes. We will keep track of the minutes and when either class reaches 5000 minutes of reading total, we will have a movie and snack afternoon.  Everyone is a winner - both classes will be doing this and when each class gets to 5000 minutes they will get their reward, we will try to do make it a little competitive between the classes - we will each try to be first. 5000 minutes per class is less than 300 minutes per student.. which is 30 minutes a day for 10 days.  This is not a one time competition either.... we will start again once we get to 5000 minutes!

Journal Prompts for the rest of the year

Journal prompts for November/December:

November 28th - Thanksgiving Weekend

November 29th - Lost and Found

November 30th - Letter to Mrs. Crumb (rough draft)

December 1st - Final copy of letter on 'picture paper'

December 2nd - Free Write (bring a stuffed animal to write and read to)

December 5th - This Weekend I.....

December 6th - Recount Field Trip  ( stressing sequence of important events...first, second, next, then, finally, etc.)

December 7th - Ways I Can Move My Body  (focus on actions - verbs)

December 8th - My Favorite Movie (because...)

December 9th - Free Write

December 12th - This Weekend I .....

December 13th - My Favorite Clothes/Outfit (describing words - adjectives)

December 14th - My Favorite Cookie (adjectives again)

December 15th - My Favorite Music/Song/Singer

December 16th - Free Write

December 19th - This Weekend I....

December 20th - Giving

Journal Prompts 11/14-11/22

Monday - My weekend
Tuesday - My friend (s)
Wednesday  - A cat story
Thursday - Recess
Friday - Free writing
Monday - Birds
Tuesday - I am thankful for...

Shaving in School???

Brendan and the 'three letter j'

Colby and Santiago

Gabe - something is wrong with my hands, Mrs. Baker

Jenna and 'ar'

Spreading the joy (otherwise known as shaving cream)

Nicholas and the four letter 'a'

Wren and 'ng'

We have really been working on not having too much fun in school but we might have had a minor failure today. We did some bulletin board art with shapes and then practiced our phonograms with shaving cream.

More fun at the park

Yesterday we had another field trip the Carolina Theatre. We saw "How the Raven Stole the Sun". Everyone did a great job and was so well behaved. We had a wonderful time at the park and here are just a few pictures that I thought you might enjoy!

Aunt Natalie (Crumb)  and Mrs. Scotten

Mr. Carlos pointing the way....

Collin just hanging around

A very happy Ella

What a trio: Hannah, Laura and Lena

Leo - head and shoulders above the rest of us

Leopold and Adam laughing over something

Leopold, Adam, Maximus and Gabe

Who said anything about chaperoning....we are here for the sun!

Mrs. Ross - a wonderful substitute!

Wren - slip sliding away....

Some field trip pictures

Some pictures from the field trip....