Friday, March 15, 2024

Lucky Visited Us Again!

Lucky the leprechaun visited Room 101 three times this week! He left treasure on Monday, Wednesday and Friday this week! He leaves us secret messages that we need to work together to decipher. The students are using all the phonemic, phonetic and sight word skills they have been learning through out the school year to figure out Lucky's messages. We have yet to see Lucky but all of us in Room 101 are very happy when he visits. He visits have helped with excitement during the long month of March. 































































Hoots, Math Challenge, Certificates & Congratulations

 We had many Hoot card earners. We are in a March Mathness Tournament (like the March Madness basketball tournament, but we solve math puzzles instead of play basketball) in ST Math. All students who are in the 100% club were assigned 1st grade topics so the whole class could participate in this challenge. Every class was assigned a color and we are competing blind to try to win the March Mathness Challenge. We had a strong showing last week. The students completed LOTS of puzzles! The first place prize is a basketball game with JiJi and a class trophy!









Spelling Number Words

 

A couple weeks ago we started reinforcing the number words at school. The number word flashcards were sent home a few weeks ago and we want to make sure we give the students time to practice at school. We started learning about the number words by singing the numeral words song by Dr. Jean. The students hold up numeral words, ten frames, tally stick cards, numerals or the correct number of fingers as we sing the song. The students are illustrating their and Number Rumba books at school. We have completed through page six this week. When we finish illustrating these books we will read and write the number words along with highlight the rhymes. These books will be sent home in a couple weeks reinforce studying the number words at home. We are also working on sight word books focusing on some of our number words.  





























Friday, March 8, 2024

Happy Birthday, Hoots & Congratulations

Happy Birthday to Jaden who turned 6 on March 4th. Congratulations to all our Hoot card earners, certificate earners and at home readers and writers. We are so proud of all our students efforts at school and home!






































Lucky the Leprechaun

 

Over the past few weeks we did different activities to entice leprechauns to visit our classroom. We made shamrocks for our classroom door and windows. We learned leprechaun poems and songs. We made a leprechaun drawing on the iPad and then wrote about what the students thought a leprechaun looked like. Students also wrote persuasive messages to tell the leprechaun where they thought a good hiding spot in our classroom for his treasure would be. Lucky the leprechaun did visit our classroom! Lucky must have been impressed by these letters because he left treasure for the students. The kindergartners are also working on a leprechaun book about prepositions on location words (above, under, in, on, beside, left and right). The students all hope that Lucky will be back again next week!