Dear parents,
We learned about bugs today. (Onika)
We learned about spiders. We had fun. Miss Allen is sick :( (Rachel)
We wrote our own book:
Bugs and Insects
Tomorrow is our 100th day celebration. (Zavien)
We are going to show our families the best work we can do. (Selena)
Tomorrow on the 100th day of school everyone will bring in their collections of 100 things. (Derek)
In our new Math chapter we are learning about money. We did our N book today. (Margaret)
In our book we learned about insects. We love school. Rachel came back today.(Evan)
Today we drew pictures of insects. (Ryan)
Today some people learned about ants. (Charlie)
We learned about pennies. (Gaby)
We dyed fabric with Ms. Schwab. (Laura)
We drew a picture of what we want to be when we are grown-ups with Miss Allen. (Kyle)
We had a lot of fun with Miss Allen this week. (Jackie)
Love,
Room 12 (Marie-Anne)
Wednesday, February 20, 2008
Wednesday, February 13, 2008
Our New Book
Dear parents,
Happy Valentine's Day! We have had a busy week as usual. Today we wrote part of the blog entry together. I hope to do this with the class more often. I think it is a great way to show them that our writing has a purpose and an audience. I am posting this blog a few days early because I know tomorrow will be chaotic after our Valentine celebration. I'd like to thank all of you for donating items to our event. I know the class will have a great time. Remember, there is no school Friday the 15th or Monday the 18th in observance of Presidents' Day. We will resume class on Tuesday.
Miss Katie was vey happy to get her flowers and read her card this morning. The bouquet looked beautiful and the childrens' drawings and hand written notes made a nice book for her to remember her 17th (not 16th-oops!) birthday.
Don't forget! next Thursday is our 100th Day celebration. We will start our day with the other kindergarteners in the auditorium and then return to our classroom for centers. I still need 2 volunteers to help me in the afternoon on that day. I have a sign up sheet posted on the door. Have a great holiday weekend and enjoy the notes from our class...
Dear Parents,
We made this book. I hope you enjoy it. (-Evan)
Sea Creatures by Students of Room 12
We did a lot of fun stuff this week. (-Onika)
We learned about sea creatures. (-Zavien)
We did writing in our journals and we did math. (-Margaret)
We did Free Choice Centers before going home. (-Charlie)
We had a great day at school. (-Selena)
We did lots of stuff. (-Ryan)
Today is Miss Katie's birthday. (-Derek)
We made 3 books. (-Vanessa)
We hope you like our books. (-Rachel)
Love,
Room 12 (-Gaby)
Happy Valentine's Day! We have had a busy week as usual. Today we wrote part of the blog entry together. I hope to do this with the class more often. I think it is a great way to show them that our writing has a purpose and an audience. I am posting this blog a few days early because I know tomorrow will be chaotic after our Valentine celebration. I'd like to thank all of you for donating items to our event. I know the class will have a great time. Remember, there is no school Friday the 15th or Monday the 18th in observance of Presidents' Day. We will resume class on Tuesday.
Miss Katie was vey happy to get her flowers and read her card this morning. The bouquet looked beautiful and the childrens' drawings and hand written notes made a nice book for her to remember her 17th (not 16th-oops!) birthday.
Don't forget! next Thursday is our 100th Day celebration. We will start our day with the other kindergarteners in the auditorium and then return to our classroom for centers. I still need 2 volunteers to help me in the afternoon on that day. I have a sign up sheet posted on the door. Have a great holiday weekend and enjoy the notes from our class...
Dear Parents,
We made this book. I hope you enjoy it. (-Evan)
Sea Creatures by Students of Room 12
We did a lot of fun stuff this week. (-Onika)
We learned about sea creatures. (-Zavien)
We did writing in our journals and we did math. (-Margaret)
We did Free Choice Centers before going home. (-Charlie)
We had a great day at school. (-Selena)
We did lots of stuff. (-Ryan)
Today is Miss Katie's birthday. (-Derek)
We made 3 books. (-Vanessa)
We hope you like our books. (-Rachel)
Love,
Room 12 (-Gaby)
Friday, February 8, 2008
February 4th-8th
Hi family and friends,
I am excited to launch our new blog. I think this will be a great way for us to all keep in touch and for you to share Bay Park news with family and friends. This week has been a busy one for us, as usual. We started with Laura's birthday party. And we got to watch Ms Allison on The Ellen Degeneres show! We also learned about Groundhog Day and Chinese Lunar New Year. Our week ended with P.E. and a visit to our 3rd grade buddies.
Mr. T introduced a new Character Trait for February: Honesty.
In Math we are learning about numbers 21-30. One activity we did was counting and graphing our Box Tops. We set a classoom goal of 155 Box Tops which should be an easy goal to meet since we already have 75 of them. Keep sending in those BTs! In Language Arts we have begun working on finding the Beginning, Middle and End of stories. We are creating our own books summarizing these three parts of a story.
Today we learned how to use a fun new tool to write and publish books. We will continue to create and publish books together until we are experienced enough to create them on our own. You can view our new book by clicking on the title: The Bug Book by by Room 12
You may need to download a free version of Flash
Here are the latest Run Club tallies:
Charlie: 130 laps
Derek: 110 laps
Evan: 140 laps
Kyle: 100 laps
Rachel: 140 laps
Vanessa: 80 laps (on her way towards her second goal of 10 miles!)
100th Day News:
Don't forget-our collections of 100 items are due next Thursday. We have had a great response to the volunteer request for that day but could still use a few extra hands, if you are available to help please let me know.
Library Books due Tuesday!
The Valentine's Day Student Store will be open next Wednesday after school. You can previw items in the display case outside of the office.
No school Friday 2/15 or Monday 2/18!
Enjoy the holiday weekend.
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Hello!
As some of you might already know I am currently working on my Master's in Educational Technology. In my last class we were introduced to blogs and how they can be used in the classroom. I thought a blog for room 12 would be a great alternative to the weekly newsletter. The following information is from last week's newsletter. Please let me know how you feel about this new idea and whether or not I should make the switch. I can also add images and video to the blog so you can see pictures from our field trips or videos of what goes on in our classroom. Thank you so much.
Dear families,
This week has been a very busy one for Room 12. We are continuing to make progress as writers by learning about Strong sentences. A strong sentence is also known as a compound sentence. When we write strong sentences we combine two ideas with the strong word and. We will continue to write both Strong and Powerful sentences. Mrs. Schwab and I began rotations again. We have been learning about our community in Social Studies and about fabric in Science.
Our trip to the zoo was a blast! Thank you to all of our parents who volunteered to chaperone this field trip.
We have been busy gardeners this week. Carol Baker took the kids into the garden to weed and Allison Rogers helped our class plant tulip bulbs donated to our class by Mrs. Vian.
We have so much going on in the month of February! I can’t wait to get the month started.
I hope you all have a prosperous new year. I am excited to see what 2008 has in store for us.
Website of the month:
http://parenting.kaboose.com/
Take care,
Miss Allen
Important Dates-
February 14th-Valentine’s Day Party
February 15th-18th– No school in observance of President’s Day
February 21st-100th Day Celebration
Run Club News… Valentine’s Day… Box Top Challenge...
Here are the new totals for all my little runners. Keep up the good work. And remember, it’s not too late to join run club. They meet every Tuesday and Thursday morning before school down on the field.
· Charlie = 128 laps
· Derek = 98 laps
· Evan = 143 laps
· Kyle = 104 laps
· Rachel = 110 laps
150 laps = 15 miles
The next goal is 10 miles (100 laps).
Our Valentine’s Day Celebration is scheduled for Thursday the 14th. We will have four adult supervised stations and plenty of treats. If you would like to send your child with Valentine’s for the class I have included a class list below. If you have not signed up to donate an item for our party we are still in need of strawberries, cubed melon and cube pineapple for our fruit kabobs. We also need two more parent volunteers to run the stations.
Our school is right in the middle of our Box Top for Education Challenge. We are collecting Box Tops from participating food and non-food items. The class the collects the most Box Tops wins an ice cream party but I am upping the stakes-for every Box Top that Room 12 turns in I will give the class one marble. We’ve already earned 21 marbles! For a list of participating brands go to
http://www.boxtops4education.com/
100th Day Celebration
On Thursday February 21st we will be celebrating the 100th day of Kindergarten. To honor this special day we will be joining the other Kinder classes and Mrs. Risty’s K/1 Special Day class in the auditorium from 9:30-11:00am. We will be participating in 7 math centers and we need your help! We are in need of two additional parents who can supervise a couple of the centers during this time as well as 5-6 parents who can help in our classroom from 11:45-12:45 as we complete 100th Day themed math activities. Thank you and we look forward to celebrating this important day with you.
Dear families,
This week has been a very busy one for Room 12. We are continuing to make progress as writers by learning about Strong sentences. A strong sentence is also known as a compound sentence. When we write strong sentences we combine two ideas with the strong word and. We will continue to write both Strong and Powerful sentences. Mrs. Schwab and I began rotations again. We have been learning about our community in Social Studies and about fabric in Science.
Our trip to the zoo was a blast! Thank you to all of our parents who volunteered to chaperone this field trip.
We have been busy gardeners this week. Carol Baker took the kids into the garden to weed and Allison Rogers helped our class plant tulip bulbs donated to our class by Mrs. Vian.
We have so much going on in the month of February! I can’t wait to get the month started.
I hope you all have a prosperous new year. I am excited to see what 2008 has in store for us.
Website of the month:
http://parenting.kaboose.com/
Take care,
Miss Allen
Important Dates-
February 14th-Valentine’s Day Party
February 15th-18th– No school in observance of President’s Day
February 21st-100th Day Celebration
Run Club News… Valentine’s Day… Box Top Challenge...
Here are the new totals for all my little runners. Keep up the good work. And remember, it’s not too late to join run club. They meet every Tuesday and Thursday morning before school down on the field.
· Charlie = 128 laps
· Derek = 98 laps
· Evan = 143 laps
· Kyle = 104 laps
· Rachel = 110 laps
150 laps = 15 miles
The next goal is 10 miles (100 laps).
Our Valentine’s Day Celebration is scheduled for Thursday the 14th. We will have four adult supervised stations and plenty of treats. If you would like to send your child with Valentine’s for the class I have included a class list below. If you have not signed up to donate an item for our party we are still in need of strawberries, cubed melon and cube pineapple for our fruit kabobs. We also need two more parent volunteers to run the stations.
Our school is right in the middle of our Box Top for Education Challenge. We are collecting Box Tops from participating food and non-food items. The class the collects the most Box Tops wins an ice cream party but I am upping the stakes-for every Box Top that Room 12 turns in I will give the class one marble. We’ve already earned 21 marbles! For a list of participating brands go to
http://www.boxtops4education.com/
100th Day Celebration
On Thursday February 21st we will be celebrating the 100th day of Kindergarten. To honor this special day we will be joining the other Kinder classes and Mrs. Risty’s K/1 Special Day class in the auditorium from 9:30-11:00am. We will be participating in 7 math centers and we need your help! We are in need of two additional parents who can supervise a couple of the centers during this time as well as 5-6 parents who can help in our classroom from 11:45-12:45 as we complete 100th Day themed math activities. Thank you and we look forward to celebrating this important day with you.
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