Goodbye Winter, Hello Spring!!

This week we celebrated the first day of spring although we have been spoiled with our spring like weather for a few weeks now.  We did some choral reading with a poem called Good Bye Winter, Hello Spring.  Check out our video below! (We had a little help with editing from Mrs. Conzemius, our technology integrationist.)

We have been working really hard this week on color words.  We practiced reading, spelling, and writing them.  We talked abour mixing the primary colors to make others.  We talked about the colors in the rainbow.  Ask your child to tell you about Roy G. Biv!  We even wrote color poems.  Check them out in the hallway by our lockers.  Here are a few pictures.

Did you catch the big THUNDERboomers on Monday night?  We will be learning all about different types of spring weather when we return from SPRING BREAK.  Hope you get some well deserved time off to spend with your child next week.  My husband and I will be taking a few days without Jaxon to celebrate our wedding anniversary in Duluth.  I am also looking forward to spending some quality time with my little boy.  See you in April!  :)

Happy Monday!

What a wonderful Monday!  We had a new friend join our class today from South Dakota.  Her name is Kirsten.  The students are excited to learn more about her and did a great job of making her feel welcome.  We practiced editing sentences using the following marks. (See below.)  You may start to see these symbols used more when your child makes writing mistakes.  They did fantastic finding and fixing the errors in the following sentences.  Here is an example.

In math we reviewed teen numbers and learned a new card game.  The kids used their finger flashes for the teen numbers to help them play "Teen Top-It".  This game is like the card game "War"  but with a ten in front to make teen numbers.  For example, a student might have a 10 and 4.  They would say 10 + 4 is 14.  Their partner would go, then they decide which number is bigger.  That person gets to keep the cards (but not the 10!).  You can practice playing at home.  Here are a few pictures of us playing "Teen Top-It".