Fun making words

Read a sentence & match the picture

We have been showing off our reading and word solving skills with a variety of group activities that involve working with word families, segmenting and blending, and reading with a focus on comprehension and punctuation.

Read and clip an end mark.

Pumpkins & word families

Practicing with partners for our first spelling test was fun too - everyone loves their turn as the teacher! The spelling test was a great success for all, and the fun surprise was the 'offices' they used for for test time - each folder had a large photo inside of a cute animal to look at!

Can you spell...flag?!

Let's see you spell...

I've got this word!

My turn to spell!

This word's easy!

Try spelling...

Then on Friday, everyone was ready for the spelling test!

Let's practice...

Love our office folders!

I know my words!

The USA symbol we learned about this week was The Statue of Liberty. We have a great collection of books and pictures of Lady Liberty and learned how it was given to us by France, was made in sections, shipped across the ocean, and reassembled here in New York City. The original color was brown copper which turned green over time from rain, and schoolchildren all over the country sent in pennies to help pay for the pedestal base it was placed on. A great symbol of welcome and freedom!

The Statue of Liberty welcomes all

Our own Lady Liberty!

Topic 3 in math has wrapped up - the kids are adept at recognizing numbers on a ten frame, making number sentences on the frames, and finding combinations of ten. We also worked with making table charts and reading the charts.  Our online laptop test is Monday.

Domino ten frames

Find a ten frame match

Who doesn't have fun with flashlights? The kids took turns peering through a cardboard tube to determine if light from the flashlight could penetrate the various materials covering the other end. Some were opaque, and others were transparent or translucent. We tested tin foil, felt, lace, cellophane paper, tissue paper, waxed paper,  and more.

Translucent for sure!

Can't see a thing!

I can see a little light!

Take a peek - any light?

 Autumn has so many rich colors and fun seasonal activities. This week the kids read texts about leaves changing color and went out to collect their own. Once back inside everyone had fun making leaf rubbings and writing a related fact sentence. 

Whoo Who Who!

As we continued to learn about woodland animals, we read A Perfect Place for an Elf Owl which is a book written and published by first and second graders. The story depicts the tiny elf owl whose habitat is the desert, being blown to all different habitats and meeting owls from each one before finding herself back home in her cactus. We made little owl shaped habitat books as a response to reading.

Tiny owl booklets

Loved sharing our writing ideas with each other this week as the kids delve further into personal narrative writing. This time we made a feelings map and chose a feeling to base a writing idea on. 'Have I told you about the time I felt surprised?' Hearing other friend's ideas helped inspire even more writing ideas.


We wished a Happy Birthday to Paxton this week on Wednesday! Always a special day for every child.

Enjoy the weekend,
Mrs. Dagley