December 7-11

This week has been super crazy!! We had different schedules to get ready for the 3rd and 4th grade music programs. Who would have known that such a slight change would throw me so off.

Monday we had an Author visit with Darleen Bailey Beard. The kids loved hearing about her and about some of the books she has written. After talking to the kids she signed some books for those students who bought one of her books. She even ate lunch with a couple of lucky kiddos!

 Our random act of kindness was picking up little from around the school.

Tuesday we practiced as a class using the app ZooKazam for our visitors that came on Wednesday. I had groups of students take a picture with an animal but they didn't know what the animal was until after I had taken the picture! Our random act of kindness was taking everyone in the office candy canes and a note!

Wednesday we had visitors from Altus to check our some of the technology we use. We got into groups and did a research project on Polar Bears. Every student wrote down 3 facts they learned about polar bears from the app ZooKazam.We also took pictures with a polar bear in our small groups and as a class! Later we took those facts and wrote them on a polar bear paper and did a craft for it. Those ended up looking like this:

Our random act of kindness was giving every second grade teacher a flower and a few notes. 

Thursday morning we got watch the 3rd graders practice for their music program. Our class completely missed PE because it was at a different time than usual and I guess my brain decided not to work! I even had it written down in my lesson plans and still didn't remember! Our random act of kindness was giving the janitors little boxes of laffy taffy and notes to go with them!

Friday we watched the 4th grade music program and I remembered to send the kids to PE after it (they would not have let me forget this time!!!)! We played a couple of rounds of sparkle to practice our spelling words and the we had our spelling test, math facts test, and our written math test. 

Educational Recap:

Phonics: Ghost Letter Digraph gn, wr, kn. Diphthong ou and Digraph ou. Diphthong ow and Digraph ow. Suffixes -er, 

-est, and -y

Math: Drawing a number line. Drawing line segments to the nearest inch. Locating points on a number line. Identifying the angles of a polygon. Adding three or more single-digit numbers.

We learned Irregular Verbs, Cause and Effect, and Reviewed Synonyms and Antonyms!

This week was also when we did our December STAR testing.