St. Patrick's Day Fun :)

We had lots of fun in Room 101 today.  Lots of Green going on!  Check out all that we did. I wish I had gotten a picture of the little pot of gold I sent home with the kids, but silly me, forgot. Sorry!  Your kids were so funny today. :)

Everyone with their hats and shamrock face paint... and stuffed animals for donating a dollar to Relay for Life :) 

Waiting on the Energy Guys to begin for Duke Energy

Teaching us about being Energy Wise

Nikki Neutron teaching us too.

She was hilarious.

Brendan creating his rainbow treat.

Notice Brendan got to sit at my desk because he earned the "Teacher's Desk" coupon from spinning the Prize Spinner. Way to Go Brendan. :) 

Group 1 enjoying their snack

Group 4

Group 5

Group 2

Group 3

Group 6

Finished product minus the gold sprinkles 

As we learned about Ireland for our culture's unit, We learned how to dance the Irish jig by another class via the SmartBoard. LOVE IT.

Mrs. West's Class shows possession!

This week we were learning about possessives with nouns.  It was fun talking about rewriting a sentence to make it more easy to understand, for example, The cat that belongs to Joe. can also be written as Joe's cat. We went on a search of the classroom and my little friends were able to help me label some things in our classroom so that we didn't confuse them with belonging to someone else. :) Check out what we found...

"Mrs. West's Computer"

"Mrs. West's Desk"

"Destiny V.'s jacket, chair."

Lucky Mrs. Hansen also got labeled.... "Mrs. West's Helper"

"Sophia's Lunchbox"

"Karlye's Doll"

"Elijah's Chair"

Dr. Seuss/"Litter Trashes Everyone" program

Wow! What a busy "Dr. Seuss' birthday" today!!! We have done so much today... We also had our Litter program where we watched a puppet show on litter. The kids had a blast. :) Enjoy some fun "Seussical" activities! :) 

My cute little "Cats in hats"

Getting ready for the "Litter Trashes Everyone" recycling program

Looking good. (Russell and Joe in the back grooving to the music)

Smile BIG :) 

I Love how Jay has his "quiet stick" up...you are ready aren't you? :) 

The set up

One of the marionettes (marionette is fancy for puppet on strings)

Another

They did such a great job!

Talking trashcans, who knew?

One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish, Blue Fish... graphing rainbow fish :) 

Still graphing...and there is the book :) 

Green Eggs & Bacon...well close enough to ham (Two pretzel sticks, marshmallow, and m&m :) )

MMmmm Seuss Juice (Using the senses) 

Use your senses to investigate the Seuss Juice :) YUMMY 

Cat in the Hat bookmarks

Fun stuff :) 

Biographies (Share Time)

We just finished up writing our February publishing piece...where each person wrote about their biography buddy in class.  (I will be recording them reading these soon....be on the lookout!) Once a few were finished and others were still working, I had my finished friends share their biographies about their buddy with other friends.  Check them out!

Madison reads hers aloud as the rest listen quietly. :) 

I had to add the picture of all the friends that donated $1 to wear a hat today and support cancer and our relay for life team! :) Way to go guys! :) 

Nonfiction Research

I am so excited that we have been working on our Nonfiction Unit in reading.  We have recently been working on researching nonfiction topics and have been working with a buddy to research a specific nonfiction topic from a tub of books.  We have researched and already taught one topic to another group.  We have just begun a new topic this past week and are about to begin teaching that research topic to our friends.  I hope you enjoy.  Ask your kids what they have learned about their topics. :)

Madison researching Abraham Lincoln.

Joe & Lee researching Snakes together. 

Brendan & Drake researching Sharks.

Leah teaching some facts about her topic "Animal Homes" using her "jotting" she wrote down while researching.

Two groups teaching each other about their topics.

Elijah & Russell exploring their NEW topics today (Sharks).

Sophia and Karlye researching about Polar Animals.

Hank and Lee looking at the famous Americans basket. Hank was thrilled to see a famous American he already knew about....Louis Pasteur.

Drake & Genavieve researching America.

Madison & Brendan researching snakes & frogs.

Emma & Timothy research about the ocean.

I love how Destiny P., and Sam are really doing a great job working together to come up with a cool fact about whales/dolphins for their fact recording sheet.

Fun Times in Room 101 (plenty of miscellany to read up on)

Oh my!  I am very behind on our class blog. Forgive me...lots going on and so little time!!! We have been so busy in our classroom.  Here are a few (not really, actually it's a whole lot) of our fun times we have had recently.  Check it out and see! :)

Dancing and singing to the "Compound Word" song... oh how they enjoyed this. (We did it twice)

Our new friend, Lexi! Welcome! :) 

Sophia is out of the hospital, and we are writing her get well, we miss you letters! Hank was very proud of his letter! :) 

Elijah worked really hard on  his too.

This one was awesome...here is what it says, " Dear Sophia, We miss you. We are not going to talk like a red neck.  Do not ask who this is. It is Russell B. Jones. Anyways, I hope you feel better! Love, Russell B. Jones" 

Let me just say this goes after my speech about, "Let's not write things, like, 'I hope you don't die.' because that doesn't sound nice even though it's something I know you mean." One kid replies, "I know who talks like that...rednecks!" So, one child proceeded to tell her we will not be talking like red necks....:) OH MY! 

Destiny V. got new glasses (so did Mrs. West :) )

Kimberly got new glasses too!  (Now, there are four of us girls with glasses, we girls gotta stick together :))

Kimberly used her "show & Share" pass... :) 

Genavieve used her "show & share" pass too.