Steps to planting a plant!

This week we've been learning all about plant parts and how they grow!  We talked all about how you plant a seed and then everyone had an opportunity to write about the sequence of planing.  They started with a picture as a visual cue but then got to add to to the pictures to make them our own!  They did a great job of sequencing as well as using inventive spelling.  I'm so proud of them with how hard they've been working on using the phonics knowledge we have learned with their inventive spelling.  They are all getting so much better with remembering to use punctuation as well as making the first letter of a sentence capitalized.  

Happy Birthday Dylan!

Happy Birthday Dylan!!!

 

They inhaled the donuts so quickly that by the time we sang and I got the camera out they were gone :)!!!

 

 

We've been working hard on sequencing our stories!  They are finding key details, putting them in order, then writing about it. 

 

We are also loving creating number bonds and number sentences (equations) through math stories!  They are rocking this and really loving it.  Next week they are going to get to make their own math stories :)

 

Fantastic First week of school 2017-2018!

Happy First Week of School!

 

We've had an amazing time getting to know one another, becoming a united class, and learning all about Campus School. 

 

To help introduce ourselves to others at Campus School as well as our class we worked on All About Me pages for our booth!  Everyone got to answer, illustrate, and computer questions about themselves to be displayed for everyone to read.

 

 

 

We were also sent on a scavenger hunt around school by Chester from the book The Kissing Hand!  He had us going all around the school finding different locations and helping us learn where lots of people and places are in our daily environment.  In the end he left us some kisses!

 

We then of course had some birthday fun on Friday!!!

Complete Sentences!

We've been working hard on writing complete sentences that are 1st grade quality.  The major focus has been on making sure the first letter is capitalized and the end has punctuation.  With a bit of focus on this we've been doing so much better over the past few weeks. 

 

Oh Groundhogs Day!!!

We were all very excited to see if we were going to have 6 more weeks of winter or if spring was coming soon!  A few came to school and quickly reported the groundhog reported that we'd have winter for a bit longer!  We watched a video about the groundhog and then everyone got to write a friendly letter to the groundhog :). 

 

 

 

Thanks to all of our awesome mystery readers!

Santa Claus work!

We had some fun with the letters that make up the words Santa Claus!

 

Each table team got to take turns to make words using the letters.  The only rules were they had to be real words and they couldn't be Santa of Claus!  Each table did a great job and had so much fun with this literacy task!