Friday, September 18, 2009

Primary (Ms. Emily):
1.) Today during morning meeting we began talking about our classroom jobs (weather helper, line leader, line caboose, schedule helper, and calendar helper. Each week we will be rotating the jobs so that everyone can have a turn. We will begin our jobs on Monday.
2.) Today we had a special trip to the fire station! It was so much fun. We met firefighters, explored the trucks and even had a turn to sit in the driver’s seat!
3.) This afternoon we made our own fire trucks using markers, scissors and glue.

Inters (Ms. Lynn):
1.) Ms. Jen from Speech came to our class today. She read us a chapter of Frog and Toad. Afterwards, we played a fishing game with sentences.
2.) In Language Arts, we started our sight word rings. We will add to them daily!
3.) Today was yummy pizza lunch day! Have a great weekend!

Inters (Ms. Jenni):
1.) Today during math we played a fun game that required students to make prediction and use tally marks to record results. Using a plastic cup we recorded how many times out of ten trials the cup landed on its side, upright, or upside down. We then made predictions of what we thought might happen if we tried it for a second time.
2.) We made a rice crispy treats with Ms. Lynn's class to take to the firehouse to thank all the Firefighters for the hard work they do protecting our community.
3.) During Morning Meeting we counted all the way to 60 on our number chart and discovered that we have had just as many sunny days as we have had cloudy days in the month of September!

Uppers (Ms. Kate):
1.) During Social Skills, Ms. Kate introduced the theme, “Think before Acting”, and our class learned (1) to pause, (2) think about what is really happening during a situation/conflict—“gather all the facts”, (3) reflect-- “ think about all the facts” and (4) then take appropriate action. Through a series of prompted skits (role play), and with the help of props, students learned to clarify a situation, understanding their own, and other’s actions/emotions, and be able to ask questions that are not emotion-laden. Students learned they can then resolve a potential conflict without individuals experiencing bruised feelings.
2.) In Science, Ms. Patrice read Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, which was followed by the class performing a storm-related experiment. Students’ enjoyed the accompanying craft project, making awesome storm clouds with individual flair.
3.) During Math class our students cut out construction paper representations of stop lights, roads (straight and curved) and landmarks, as we continued our study of map making. As discussion of dimensions, spacing, sequencing, memory work, (straight vs. curved road on route to the Post Office). We as well learned that many things in life (math or writing or moving around) take many steps to accomplish the final produce. We went over the steps involved in making a map. Step 1: Driving to the Post Office to discover the exact route. Step 2: Cutting out the parts of the map needed (brainstorming process). The following steps will be completed next week. Step 3: Building the map using the parts we cut out (drawing process). Step 4: Testing the final product by having Ms. Jillian drive to the Post Office using only our map!

Uppers (Ms. Barbara):
1.) Today we played a bean bag game in OT to help us with directionality.
2.) In music we played instruments to “Play That Funky Music” and then sang from our songbooks.
3.) We did a reader’s theater of Double Trouble in Walla Walla.