Fraction People

While we are learning about Fractions, we brought together some creativity and art to create FRACTION PEOPLE! These came out awesome! They are hanging up outside the library! Please come and check them out if you are in the building soon! Great job Starfish!

KIDBLOGS- The kids will soon be professional bloggers

Blogging

Tomorrow the Starfish will officially turn into bloggers! This Tuesday, with the help from Ms. O'Connor, they will get their introduction to blogging. The site we will be using is called called Kidblogs. Blogging allows students to publish their work for an authentic audience.

Furthermore, students can explore other Kidblogs and respond with comments or questions. You should know that our Kidblog site is completely moderated by me. No post or comment will show up on the site unless I have personally previewed and approved it. An equally important thing for parents to know is that because of the moderation set up, our Kidblog site is visible to everyone. Our students will have a real worldwide audience, and I am sure that comments will be coming in from everywhere. 

Lastly, the students are well aware of their responsibility and safety on the Internet. Tomorrow we will have a discussion about internet safety and the importance of using only their first name and to not give out any personal information in their blog posts.  Again, I will approve all posts and comments for appropriateness and user safety.

If you would like to view the site now, click here

Students can login here (passwords will be coming home tomorrow in your child's blue folder!!)

The students are so excited to have their very own place to write and have it be read. Please spread the word about our blogs to friends and relatives from across the country. This is an opportunity to connect people from all over the world!

The kids have been really excited about the opportunity to Blog. While looking at some of the other classroom kidblogs, we noticed that the kids wrote about things that happen outside of school (ex: soccer games, dance recitals, favorite new toys, April vacation, etc.) I'm hoping that we can carry over the blog posts to the summer so it will be a fun way for the kids to stay connected and a place where we can share exciting parts of our summer vacation!

A fun Friday before vacation

We had a great day today! This afternoon we celebrated healthy hearts and bodies with Jump Rope for Heart! The weather was wonderful- warm temperatures with a breeze! We also Baked cookies in our school's cafe to learn about fractions. Of course the favorite part for the kids was decorating and eating the cookies! After Jump Rope for Heart they had some free choice time. It's always really fun to step back and watch the kids collaborate, construct, and create!

I hope your family has a wonderful week off! After April vacation the school just flies! Today was a special day for me to dance and play with your wonderful children!

Earth Day Writing

We have been learning about the importance of keeping our environment clean and healthy. We wrote to Mother Nature this week about how we could help reduce, reuse, and, recycle to make our world a happier place to live!

Starfish pack up for early dismissal

Starfish share their informational books

Starfish Gazette April 9, 2013

Dear Starfish Families,

I look forward to meeting with all of you during the upcoming parent-teacher conferences.  I have some available times for mystery reader.  I will put the sign up out during our conference if you are interested in signing up. Thanks!

Here's what the starfish have been up to in April...

·Learned about the vowel teams – ee, ea, oa, and ie

· Have a special visit from Megan from the New Hampshire SPCA. She brought 5 Guinea Pigs and mice to share with the starfish

· Learning about geometry- We are learning to attributes of 2D and 3D shapes.

·Played the missing addends game and Unlucky Seven

· Read Scholastic NewsTrash. We learned about the importance of the 3R's for our environment.

·Played Top-It with our fact triangles for practice addition and subtraction facts.

·Sang the Solid Shape Song

· Created self portraits

· We played an Earth Day Game on the Smart Board as a class

·Chose a book of interest to read with a partner (Topics included sports, countries, animals, artists, hobbies, etc) to grow our conversations about books

·Worked on creating our own Word Walls. We are trying to hold them accountable for words such as does, said, because in all writing.

· Celebrated Chloe's 7th birthday.

To Promote School Talk Try the Following Questions…  

 

1. Tell me about one of the shapes your have been learning about.

2 What did you learn about Tattling this week with Mrs. Griffith? 

 3. What was your classroom job this week?           

4. What did you do at P.E. this week? 

5.  What is your informational book about?

Important Dates to Remember

· Wednesday, April 10^th is an EARLY RELEASE DAY.

· Wednesday, April 17^th is an EARLY RELEASE DAY.

· Progress Reports will go home on Friday, April 19^th.

· April Vacation – 4/22 – 4/26