February Happenings!

Sorry for being so slow to post on the blog. It has been extremely busy lately and I couldn't seem to get time to blog. Here is what was happening in our classroom today...

We have been really working hard on temperature and time. Today we played a game called, "Time to go Camping", to refresh our memory on time to the hour. They rolled a dice and had to find that time to the hour on the clocks below. The first person to cover all the squares was the winner. I saw some spectacular team work and cooperation during this game. We then worked on time to the hour and half hour in class today.

I just returned yesterday from Cozumel, Mexico. I had a blast and really enjoyed the 80 degree weather. It was tough to get off the plane into -10 weather, but I sure enjoy being home and seeing this class again. I brought each student back a bobble head turtle that says Cozumel on it. They were all hand painted in Cozumel. They were pretty excited when they came into the classroom this morning and saw them on their desks. I told them I would bring them something special if they were on their best behavior for the substitute teacher. I had a great report and was so proud of each and every one of them! 

All our turtles!

 Close up of some of the turtles are below!

We also celebrated their excellent behavior by watching a movie and eating popcorn during milk break!

HELP! We are trapped in a snow globe!

Today was a very busy day! Our morning was busy taking our weekly assessment. It was all about the dinosaurs and the many ideas on how they became extinct. I was really impressed with how well the students summarized the article. After our hard work on our test, we had some fun doing a snow globe art project. First, we wrote to the writing prompt... "If I lived in a snow globe..." Next, we took a picture in our snow gear and printed them off. Then, we cut them out, glued it onto a paper plate, and decorated the paper plate. We then took another paper plate and cut out the middle circle. I then taped a ziploc bag, that was cut in half, to make it look like a snow globe. Last, we glued the two paper plates together. They turned out spectacular! GREAT JOB!

BUSY DECEMBER!

I hope you all had a wonderful break. It went by so fast, but I sure enjoyed spending the time with my family! I have a lot to update you on. We were so busy the month of December that there hasn't been many posts. Also... the students didn't want me to post anything, because they wanted the parent gifts to be a surprise! I hope you all loved the gifts they gave you. They put a lot of hard work into them! In December, Mr. and Mrs. Clause visited our classroom, we worked on subtraction with regrouping, made ornaments, made life sized elves, decorated gingerbread cookies, made a hand print calendar, kept track of our elf Holly, and ended the month with Polar Express Day and our Christmas party. It was so much fun and went by WAY TO FAST!

MR AND MRS. CLAUSE CAME TO VISIT!

SUBTRACTION WITH REGROUPING

MADE ORNAMENTS

MADE LIFE SIZED ELVES!

DECORATED GINGERBREAD MEN!

Mrs. Halvorson made us gingerbread cookies and shared a story with us!

MAKING HAND PRINT CALENDARS

HOLLY OUR ELF!

POLAR EXPRESS DAY!

They earned their tickets. Waiting to enter the train!

Entrance to our classroom. They had to follow the train tracks!

Mr. Lund was our train conductor and read the story to the class.

Punching the tickets!

 Playing Polar Express Bingo

Sequencing the Story

Listening to the story

Mr. Lund had the story on his iPad so we could see it on the smartboard!

 A letter arrived from Santa. It had this letter and a bell for each of us. They were ice 

cold, we inferred that they were cold due to the temperature in the North Pole.

Mr. Lund passing out candy canes. THANK YOU!

Watching the Movie!

GIRL GIFT EXCHANGE!

BOY GIFT EXCHANGE!

HOPE YOU ALL HAD A FANTASTIC BREAK! 

MERRY CHRISTMAS FROM MY FAMILY TO YOURS!