September 14, 2012

Dot Day

We celebrated Dot Day on Friday, September 14th. Every year on or around September 15, educators around the world celebrate International Dot Day by making time to encourage their students’ creativity. Dot Day is based on Peter H. Reynolds’ award-winning book The Dot.


We decorated a sign with Ms. Hovey when we were in art, that greeted everyone as they came in the door.


When we were in music we made a class dot to hang from the ceiling.



Martha fixed us a delicious lunch with a lot of dots in it. We had dots in the soup, dots in the bread, and dots in the cookies. After lunch we came back to the room and played the dot game.











We talked about how you can make your mark on the world by making a difference in othe people's lives. We are ready to make our mark on the world.

September 12, 1012

"Sea" Our Personal Narratives

For the last couple of weeks we have been working on our personal narratives and they are now done, published, and displayed. Be sure and check them out when you are in the building. The kids have had a wide variety of experiences and did a very good job with their writing.

September 11, 2012

High Number Toss

We played High Number Toss today with a die and 4 blanks on a piece of paper to practice place value and practice making the highest number possible. We did very well at determining how to make the highest numbers. We will play this game a lot this year in various forms.

September 7, 2012

Blogging About Blogging

The kids had been anxiously awaiting the KidBlog site. Some of them had experimented at home a little bit with it, but most had not. We took Friday afternoon and we all blogged about what we thought we would do this weekend. It was absolutely awesome to see how they helped each other and me when we came to a problem.

September 5, 2012

Finally---All Here

We have been waiting to take a class picture until we were all here. Today was the day. We have 13 boys and 10 girls. We certainly are a handsome bunch of kids.



But we have our goofy side too!!