Wednesday

Today went fast, as all Early Out days, but we fit a lot in. Mr. Croff brought a guest in to our room to meet our class. Her name is Mrs. Bartsch and she will be teaching on Mrs. Hansen's days for the rest of the year. We were excited to meet her and see how nice she is. We are hoping to include a letter from her introducing herself to you in the Thursday folder. Also in the folder will be April's calendar.

Thanks for those of you who came to the conferences Wednesday. So far we have 100% attending and love our time to visit with each of you!

As we end the week, we will be saying good-bye to Mrs. Hansen and sending her off with some special handmade gifts to remember us and our time together.

Sincerely,

Mrs. Clapper

Terrific Tuesday

This will be the shortest post yet. We had a GREAT day, but I can't really tell you what we worked on because I am sure Mrs. Hansen reads this blog! So ask your kids what they did!

Conferences start tomorrow and the rest of this week is Early Out. We aim to get them out by 11:50 so the parents that need to go pick up other students can, but as you know we sometimes run a little late. Although it is getting easier now without all those winter clothes! We will be out by noon for sure so that the teachers can get a bite to eat before the first conferences at 12:30.

We still get Library tomorrow so remember those books, please!

Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper

Monday of X week

Today was an excellent day for learning! We enjoyed finding x at the beginning of X-ray and xylophone (although we laughed that it was copying a 'z'). We found it in the middle of Jaxton, and at the end of ox, box, and fox as well as ax and Max and six!!!

One of our caterpillars is already in it's chrysalis so we read the story by Deborah Heiligman called "From a Caterpillar to Butterfly". It was exciting to find out that the caterpillar in the book turned into a "Painted lady butterfly" just like ours will be!

We watered our plants and 3 of them have already popped out of the dirt! It was really exciting to come back after the weekend to changes in both plants and animals of our room!

Tomorrow we have a story about a rescue at sea called "Mayday, Mayday". Kaleigh's Mom is coming in to help us make a going away gift for Mrs. Hansen. Friday is coming all too soon!

I am working on the April calendar and was surprised to see that the children do not have school on Monday, April 4th. The teachers have meetings but school is not in session. We will still go ahead with the full Reading and writing for that week since most of the boys and girls are really completing their worksheets independently. I am so proud of their progress.

Report cards come home tomorrow and then we look forward to conferences Wednesday - Friday afternoon. The time and day is listed on the left side of their report cards.

That's all for now!

Have a nice evening!

Mrs. Clapper

Busy Thursday

Hello! What a busy day we had! Hopefully you got the school carnival sheet that went home yesterday. Today there was a PTA sheet that went home along with the schedule for next week. Here are some of the things we did today:

Class picture! :-) 

Math- discussed symmetry and how to know if a shape is symmetric. 

Reading- Reread Max takes the Train and we went over quick spelling our high frequency words, phonics with a review of /e/. 

Science- planted our bean sprouts! Thank you Mrs. Bergum for popping in and helping! 

Writer's workshop- The students wrote today about the luckiest day they ever had. They did well. :-) When they finished they were able to get on to the computer and do some reading practice. 

Of course the class got centers today and while they were there I worked with the students one on one . They enjoy that little time to read/ show me what they know. 

Have a great evening! Remember that book orders are due tomorrow! :-) 

Great Wednesday

Here is a quick update on the day:

Reading- Mrs. Clapper continued to focus on the "J" and "W" words today in Reading Street. Mrs. Hansen did some testing today on where the students are with rhyming, segmenting words and reading.

Math- We are working on symmetry, big word, we will be doing even more with it tomorrow as it can be a hard one to remember.

Science- we are getting ready to plant our beans tomorrow, we reviewed what a living thing was and took a look at some plants below and above ground and compared and contrasted them.

Library! Don't forget to have your child bring their Library book back every Wednesday!

It was a great day! :-)

Wet and snowy but a Tremendous Tuesday!

These students are terrific! Today, even with the really odd weather, they stayed focused on our school work. They only got to enjoy one outside recess at lunchtime but had fun with the Gingerbread Man song and a math game. I missed them so much on Monday and got such a great report from our guest teacher. Mrs. Hanel said they did such a good job for her and waited a long time for a special concert on Monday. The Castlerock choir came to Meadowlark and were a little rowdy during their set up when our class was already in the Commons. But once they got singing, the children loved their Rock-n-roll songs that lasted right up to dismissal time!

Today we talked about all sorts of TRANSPORTATION and read a fun book about Max traveling to get a double chocolate ice cream Whamburger with coconut curls and red sprinkles. It was fun to follow the signs as he took a bus, a train, a ferryboat, an airplane and a subway to get there and his sister came to pick him up on a bicycle with a sidecar!

In math we are sliding, flipping and turning shapes for the geometry part of this unit. By the end of the week we will be learning about symmetry!

We are finishing up on report cards, so look for them a week from today. I am so glad that Mrs. Hansen can be here for our Parent Teacher conferences. We are certainly going to miss her joyful ways of teaching the children but we know it's best for her family that she move to Great Falls!

Tomorrow is Library day and Thursday is picture day. I plan to come in so that I can be in the group picture. It's such a nice group of children!

Sincerely, Mrs. Clapper

p.s. Show and Tell can be TWO items this week, one with J and one with W. One boy brought Woody and didn't remember a 'j' show and tell, but we figured out that Woody wears jeans!!!

Quick Recap!~

What a day! The students came in SO excited for the day, they could hardly keep it together. I had to remind the class many times that they needed to be on task, even when SUPER excited. Hopefully tomorrow will go even better. :-) (I think the excitement from St. Patrick's Day was just too much. ) :-)

Math- worked on shapes. we talked about rectangles and squares and how a square can be a rectangle, but a rectangle cannot be a square.

Reading- we reread Abuela and went over and reviewed "e" in the middle of words, the "g" sound as well as some blends.

We did a lot of fun things for St. Patrick's Day. The kids colored and read a book, which they brought home, completed a rainbow with a review of sight words on the back and had a special treat of lucky charms. :-)

Have a great evening! Happy St. Patrick's Day!