This is Joshua S.'s VIP week and he shared his poster with the class this morning. In math, students worked on a Venn Diagram, comparing and contrasting telling time on an analog versus a digital clock. Tomorrow we will start learning about coins. We read the story "Alexander Who Used to be Rich Last Sunday" about a boy who spent his money on some pretty useless stuff that he thought he "had to have." From the story, we learned the words "absolutely" and "positively." Mrs. Craven read a story to students after lunch and we also used the computer lab to work on the XtraMath web site.

There's no school for students on Monday. See you on Tuesday. Don't forget to turn in your book orders Tuesday.

Today students learned to tell time to the hour. They learned the names of the parts of an analog clock (face, hour hand, minute hand), and, the best part of all, they used small clocks to show me different times that I called out. We read Eric Carle's "The Grouchy Ladybug." When our big buddies arrived, students painted a half paper plate red and used black thumbprints to make the dots. They also wrote about what makes them grouchy. Their big buddies took pictures of the little kids making a grouchy face to be the head on their paper plate ladybug. I have to say they are adorable!

Jasmin is an awesome addition to our classroom. I think she had a good day and I know the rest of the class was excited to have her there. We learned signs for this week's shared reading, "Colorful Eggs." We started our unit on time by talking about AM and PM and what those letters mean. We also learned the difference between analog and digital clocks. Jenasee shared her VIP poster with the class.

Our seats at Alberta Bair were amazing. Last time we went, we sat in the nose bleed section. This time, we were probably 8 rows from the stage. The students were well behaved on the bus and during the show. Our schedule was "off" so students never got to work at centers which bummed them out. Jenasee shared some yummy birthday treats with us. We are getting a new student tomorrow! Her name is Jasmin. I can't wait to meet her!

The letter of the day was S. I read "The Sandwich Swap," a book about learning to try new foods before you decide that you don't like them. We started a new social studies unit on caring for our planet. We talked about the 3 Rs- Reduce, Reuse and Recycle. We also watched a Bill Nye the Science Guy video about recycling.

Have a happy Easter and a restful Spring Break. See you on the 10th!

Today was Jenasee's 6th birthday. We were sure busy for it being a half day! Our letter of the day was R so we made rainbows. We learned the order of the colors on a rainbow. Some students added cotton clouds and I saw that a few students drew pots of gold. Since we've been learning the difference between 2-dimensional and 3-dimensional shapes in math, I thought it would be fun to make some origami shapes. I showed the students how to make a paper balloon, which looks like a cube, and many of them sat down with me to learn to make it. As a whole group, we made origami ravens, like the character from "How Raven Stole the Sun." Students also filled out an April calendar. The purpose of filling out the calendar is to practice counting and writing numbers. We're working hard on getting our numbers facing the right direction.