Magic in the air!

Our magical elves!

Look what we made!

There is a lot of excitement at this time of year, and the kids loved making colorful, life sized elves to decorate our room with! 

We are also all prepared for our Gingerbread House making on Monday. Thank you for all the donations of candy, graham crackers, and frosting. It will smell very sweet in here Monday morning! We will hope to start around 9:00 ish and you are welcome to stop in for a bit on your way to work or to stay for the full decorating time (we usually are finished by 10:30 or before). If parents are unable to attend, an older sibling at TES or a grandparent, aunt, etc could come instead to our room 115.

Frosting ready to go into cups

Wow! Candy!

The tables are set!

 We have been an audience for Reader's Theater skits this week and for a puppet show a few friends created on their own.

Skit: Where is bear Cub's Home?

We made a puppet show!

Fish School skit

Time for the Party Reader's Theater play

 We have completed topics 1-6 in math and took the test
for Topic 6 on Friday. It turned out to be our most challenging test
yet, perhaps because of the way the questions were asked, and it took a lot of concentration and focus. We needed to de-stress, so had a 'run like crazy' break out in the football field for 10 minutes following the test!

In science we have wrapped up our physical science units on light and sound energy and communication with light and sound. We 
had fun using Morse Code to decipher dots and dashes when we learned about the telegraph. We also sequenced a timeline of the telephone and were amazed at how the phone has changed over the years. Dialing a rotary phone was a new experience when I brought in an old fashioned phone!

Dialing a number takes a while!

I have an important call to make!

Time for a phone chat!

Another highlight of the week was going off to read to kindergarten classes! Everyone has been practicing reading a book with a partner or 2 partners and finally the day arrived when most could head off to the red wing to read to a kindergarten audience. (One group has to wait until this coming week.) We have had second graders come to our class to read, so having the chance to be the traveling readers to kindergarten felt very important!

In phonics we have been focusing on suffixes, specifically words ending in /s/ or /es/ when plural or when depicting action. We have also been working with blends (2 consonants before the vowel) such as flag, green, clap...). We will be moving on to long vowels shortly.

We are also using these last couple of weeks after Personal Narrative writing, to create a fiction story of our own. We are developing a character and a story problem and will work on the solution and wrap up next week.

It's a very busy time of year - stay rested and healthy!

See you Monday,
Mrs. Dagley