Field Trip Fun

Today we went to a local farm called Heyser farm. It's just up the road between Cloverly and White Oak. We saw how apple cider is made!! It was a lot of fun and we even got to take home three apples and a pint of cider. We got to see chickens, bees, peach trees, grape vines, and more!! Check out these pictures. 

What a fun week!!

I had a great first week back at Flora Singer. I love my class!  In reading this week we worked on making predictions. It's a good idea to stop periodically when you're reading and guess what might happen next!! The kids in our class are pros at literacy centers. We will add more new centers next week and resume guided groups. In writing we are writing sentences with our word wall words. Every sentence should have an uppercase letter to start, lowercase letters, spaces and a period. We are almost done with patterns in math. We did a pattern search around the school this week and made patterns on the promethean board!  It's been great getting to know the students. I'm looking forward to talking with all of the parents at conferences coming up in a few weeks. Here are two more pictures from this week. 

Making patterns with characters from Brown Bear, Brown Bear. 

 

Walking for the Homeless

The first day of school...for me!

Today was my first day back from maternity leave. We had a great day today. It was so fun getting to see everyone. We started the day with a new hello song and played a getting to know you game with a huge number cube. We read a cool story about fish and sharks and a boy in a boat. We made predictions on each page. We went to literacy centers and everyone showed me how independent they are. Dr Grossman, our ESOL teacher, came for math and red the Dr Suess book Ten Apples Up On Top and we counted and made patterns with apples! We exchanged library books and went to the computer lab to try a new program called Kidspiration. Everyone was really helpful and made the day so fun and easy. I'm looking forward to a great school year.