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Friday, April 20, 2012

April 16th-20th


Monday:  Our new popcorn word is come and our new star letter is Ee.  Today we read the book Ella Takes the Cake and we answered a question about the story.  Then we practiced making words from the “-ell” word family.  In math, we practiced counting and added pop tabs to our collection.  We also read a book called Our Earth.  We finished our chapter book about MonkeyMonkey today. 
Tuesday:  Today we went to music and practiced a new dance.  During R & R, we had our first Reader of the Day.  Angelina read us Are You My Mother?  We also did our capital letter E handwriting.  We went to the computer lab and practiced our keyboarding skills by typing words.  In Science we read Our Class is Going Green.  In math we made bundles and counted sticks by 10s and 1s.  We read the nonfiction book Chicken’s Aren’t the Only Ones and we made an egg with something inside that grows in an egg.

Wednesday:  Today we went to P.E. and played King Pin.  In math we practiced making equivalent names for numbers.   Luke read us the book Snowman’s Big Job.  We also read Elmer and Elmer in the Snow.  We made an Elmer project and completed a beginning, middle, end paper.  Today after Daily 5 we worked in our poem book for the letter Ee.

Thursday:  Today we went to P.E. and played garbage in my backyard.  In Science, we wrote and drew pictures to show and tell what we can do to take care of the earth.  We started number scrolls in math.  Chloe read us the story You Can’t Scare a Princess.  We had math centers today.  We wrote about our math centers in our journal.  We also had a Read-In.
Friday:  Today at P.E. we danced the chicken dance, cha-cha dance and the celebration dance.  We had writer’s workshop.  In our classroom today we danced.  We read the story called Come Along, Daisy! and wrote about what Daisy was doing.  We also read Never Ride your Elephant to School. In science we talked about conserving energy.   In math we finished our pop tab collection.  We collected 126 pop tabs. 

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