November News....Bye Bye Bears!

It has been a busy week full of fun and excitement. We have started our "Book in a Bag" program, attended the book fair, read with our buddies, heard a former St. Paul's parent author speak to us, had our teddy bear picnic and continued with our somewhat normal routine! 

Starfall.com short "e"

Handwriting practice with "e", rhyming words & punctuation

spelling center

contraction pancake flip

Tumble Books App on the iPads

Sequencing a story & characters

Writing Words Book

Munchies for Moosie Math

Spelling Practice

Special Chapel: Maybelle visited to read us Mrs. Speck's story!

Author Katie Speck (Former St. Paul's Parent)

Fact Family House

Our Math last week went into learning about double digit subtraction without regrouping & this week math has been filled with learning about inverse operations & fact families.  A fact family has 3 members in its family.  The largest number is the "boss."  You have to come up with 4 number equations that go with that family. For example: with the fact family 4,5,9.  4+5=9, 5+4=9, 9-5=4, 9-4=5.  They have caught on so quickly.  Miss Fate taught a fact family dice lesson.  The kids all made their own fact family dice books.  Mrs. Waller taught a fact family domino lesson. The kids had to pull a domino & then write equations.  It was so much fun!

SmartBoard Fact Families

On Wednesday, we had an all school buddy read in.  The children loved reading to their buddies.  




In our Language Arts block this week Miss Fate did guided reading with the students as well as playing Slap that Sight Word.  Ask your children about this game it was a favorite!  You could play this at home with the flashcards we sent home with you at conferences. The first time we showed the children how to pick a "just right book." They have chosen books for themselves at their level and placed them in their bag. So far, so good....the bags have come back each day & with the books in them. Thank you for your support with this!  We will continue this next week. Our skill focus this week was "short e" & Mrs. Waller introduced verbs to the children. 

Slap the Sight Words Game

"I got it!!!!"

Verbs that "POP!"

Charades with Verbs

During Social Studies we have been teaching them all about voting, the election, ballots, voter registration cards & we even had a mock election with the two stories "Duck for President & Grace for President."  It was so cool & we loved wearing our "I Voted" stickers after the election.  Miss Fate continued to work in the theme notebook as we learn about all the different bears. Make sure you praise your children when they show you all the information they have learned about bears.  They should be coming home Friday at the latest.  Below the children fill out their bear boxes....for each letter of the alphabet, the students have to come up with a word that has something to do with bears.

 

Bear Information Boxes

Election Timeline with Mrs. Waller

The winner was........Duck for President!!!

On Thursday, afternoon we visited the Book Fair and had a great time browsing books. Mr. N read a great story to us and then we shopped and had a treat. Who could ask for anything more? Thank you to Mr. N and all of the parents who helped put on this amazing event!

 Hands on Science with Waller & Lorfing:Solar Polar Power Experiment. Which will melt faster the ice cube on the black paper or the ice cube on the white paper and how does it relate to Polar Bears?

iPads for our technology time with Fate & Wiedeman the kids played on the Sushi Monster Math app & Rocket Speller app.

Our first Teddy Bear Picnic was a success!  We did a culminating event on bears with a special Power Point game that Mrs. Waller made up.  The kids have learned so much about bears!  The picnic was a blast and the kids loved eating with their teddy bears. 

Thank you for your special "Beary" treats! The kids loved them!  They were so creative!

Thanks for the cookies Mrs. Gaffney!!!

All School Buddy Read In!

TNT (Try New Things!)  Last week we made the cutest scarecrows that are hanging in the back of our room and this week we made our very own Leafkins.  Check out the pics....

Spelling (short "u"-- up, jump, run, but, fun, bus, must, cut, cub, club

Challenge--veteran, Thanksgiving, family, pilgrim

Surprise the Teacher Word???

A note from Mrs. Shurtleff’s P.E. Blog

http://spedsshurtleff.blogspot.com/

Reminders: 

Thank you for all your support for the food pantry.....you are making a difference!!!!!!

St. Paul’s Episcopal Day School’s

Annual Food Drive

To support St. Paul’s Church’s food pantry

Where:  Main entrance/hallway of both buildings *Make sure they record you down each morning for FATE/WALLER'S CLASS if you leave any items on the brick wall please label them with our names on them.

Friday, November 9:          Double points for toilet paper 

Monday, November 12:     Double points for personal hygiene

                                                 Items 

Tuesday, November 13:      Double points for dry beans, rice,

                                                crackers and Mac and Cheese 

Wednesday, November 14:  Laundry detergent (20 points for     

                                                multiple-load bottle or box     

                                                detergent) 

Thursday, November 15:    Double points for disposable diapers

                                                sizes 3, 4, 5 and 6 as well as Adult

                                                Depends. (We will count each

                                                diaper in the package) 

Friday, November 16:       To be announced-!

We enjoyed talking with you last week at conferences.  Thanks for all of your support.  We love teaching your children!

Love, Melissa & Sara