Oct 30 2020

Happy Halloween and Spirit Week Learning and Fun!

Posted on October 30, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families! We had such an amazing week! Take a look at what we have been doing!

I wish you all a fun and safe Halloween weekend!!!!!

Math story with Ms. Mehrhof

Sink or float activity with Ms. Mehrhof

Ms. Mehrhof reading Linda Williams’s book “The Little Old Lady Who Was Not Afraid of Anything”

Sink or Float with Cookie Monster

One of our Favorite Halloween Dances!

We strung 10 cubes! “4…..one more makes 5. 5…one more makes 6….”

We made a tower taller than the orange of our pumpkins

We measured how tall our pumpkins are with our cubes

These friends found grapes, gloves, and glasses for the sound of the letter Gg.

We drew our hypothesis before investigating if our pumpkin would sink or float

We recorded the result! The pumpkin sank to the bottom of the bowl!

We made towers that were taller than our pumpkins

We learned the sight word see and found it as we read our book…”Pumpkin Faces

We wrapped up Benchmark Unit 3 today and reviewed what rules we have and the importance of rules.

We ended our week with a Halloween Dance party! It was super duper fun!!!!

Thank you again for all you do!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 28 2020

Look What Has Been Happening During Spirit Week!

Posted on October 28, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

We have been having a fun Spirit Week! Please know, tomorrow (Thursday) afternoon, we will all be working on our independent work since teachers will be in a meeting. In addition, Friday is a half day of school for our students! Teachers have another meeting. The students have been working so hard and having lots of fun as we have been incorporating some exciting Halloween activities and stories into our zooming!

Take a look at what we have been doing!!!

Ms. Mehrhof stringing 10 cubes with 2 different colors

Ms. Mehrhof making a mix and fix math game

Sneaky Halloween Elves left something special on our porches!!!

Our Halloween elves left us sticker faces for us to design our pumpkin’s face!

We went on a number path walk through a “spooky forest to find the 5 Little Pumpkins that rolled out of sight”

We made a counting to path to walk on as we say the numbers in order

We made Halloween bracelets by using 5 black and 5 orange beads that we colored!

We drew the character in our Benchmark story, “Rules are Cool”.

In Eureka Math we created 10 plates of 10 scoops of strawberry and chocolate ice cream to compare with the drawings of our friends!

We made a numbers mix and fix game for home!

Mrs. Torres showed us a super cool Art site to make art on the computer.

We drew and named the character in “Rules are Cool”

We followed the Benchmark 3 Steps of Writing to write about what we can build.

We had fun creating faces on our pumpkins.

We presented and told about our pumpkin creations.

Our pumpkin friends even got to watch us build and design towers!

This friend has a hat that is a game for hat day!

This friend went on a hunt for items that begin with the sound of P…potato, pillow, pencil, and peach!!

We showed how 5 and 5 make ten beads on a pretend necklace for our mamas!

We used the muscles in our hands to string our cubes on a shoesting!

We had fun looking for a shoe string and using it to show ten cubes!

We drew 2 snow people 5 snowballs tall to show 5 and 5 make 10.

This friend found items that begin with the sound of Ss…..salsa and slime!!!!

Thank you for all you do!!! Thursday is Scientist Day and Friday is costume day for Spirit Week!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 25 2020

A Look Ahead at this Week in Young 5s

Posted on October 25, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

I hope you all had a lovely weekend!!!! We are going to have a Spirit Week this week!!! I am so excited to celebrate some Halloween themed activities on zoom.

Take a Look at Our Home Learning Schedule

I am looking forward to an awesome Halloween Week!!!

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 22 2020

Thursday, 10/22/2020

Posted on October 22, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Happy Thursday to you all! I am so thankful for a wonderful morning with the children! They are all so enjoyable to Zoom with!

Take a look at some of the work we did today!

We learned the sight word is and found it in our Benchmark story “A Fat Pumpkin”

We created a 10 frame. As we created it, we talked about how many we would have if we added one more to 9! We would have 10!!

Click below to check out a site to count with ten frames!

https://www.coolmath4kids.com/manipulatives/ten-frame

We identified end marks! Period, Exclamation Point, and Question Mark

Scratch Garden’s End Marks

We followed the Benchmark 3 Writing Steps as we wrote to tell Bosco Bear ways to be safe! This friend wrote “Don’t touch fire.”

This friend wrote “Stay in the backyard.”

This friend wrote “Don’t cross the street.”

We learned some facts about Spiders and created our first RAN chart for informative writing!

RAN Chart about Spiders with Y5s on Zoom (part 1)

Information about spiders

RAN chart for Spiders after learning some facts! (part 2)

Thank you for all you do!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 21 2020

Wednesday, 10/21

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

We had a wonderful Wednesday together…remotely!

Check out these adorable pictures and captions!

We read Rules at Home and School from Benchmark. We used the Benchmark 3 writing steps to think, draw, and dictate about a rule we have at school/Zoom.

We drew a group of 5 silly shapes and then added 4 more silly shapes. We wrote a math sentence to tell how many silly shapes we have all together.

This friend wrote about the rule of raising your hand when you have something to say.

We reviewed the short vowel a and decoded the word am in the Benchmark decodable book for a.

We learned a new sight word and found it in our Benchmark book, (in)

These friends wrote about a rule we have to help us learn and stay safe at school.

We had STEM time today! This friend stacked cups into a tower.

This friend build a different tower of cups!

These friends built a structure out of cups.

These friends built a structure with cups!

We shook, dumped, and counted 9 cubes in a scattered formation!

We worked on completing a pattern during virtual learning labs.

Here is a very happy mathematician! We love working with numbers.

https://youtu.be/HH0rQiwKtSs

Listen Better Kids; Howard B. Wigglebottom Learns to Listen

Jack Hartmann and Jean Richardson with the sight word, (in)

I would like to give a special thank you to all of the families who joined us on Zoom for the Parent Meeting! If you missed it, please contact me to get the link to watch the recorded meeting.

Thank you for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 19 2020

Monday, Oct.19

Posted on October 19, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today was a super great start to the week!!!

We reviewed the letter Ff and stretching for sounds we hear in words. We also practiced the shake, dump, and count game for counting objects in a scatter or circular.

This friend drew a foot for the letter Ff!

We learned about arrays. We made 4 blocks with 2 stacks of 2

This friend drew a football for the letter Ff

We have a PARENT MEETING at 2:00 on Zoom tomorrow!!! PLEASE make plans to join me for this informative meeting!

Thanks for all you do!

Love. Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 18 2020

A look ahead at Week 8 in Y5s!

Posted on October 18, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

I hope you all had such a lovely Sweetest Day weekend!

Here is a look ahead to week 8! I am excited to begin a new week with my little angels!

This week we will be learning about about the short vowel sounds and blending words! We will also practice counting syllables in words and produce rhyming words!

This week we will learn about bats! We will doing a fun project in Learning Labs in regards to this subject!

We are also going to be doing work with ten frames and the number 10!!!! How exciting!

And…..we are going to talk about the importance of following rules!!

Get ready, get set….here comes week 8!

Lots to learn and laugh about….it’s going to be great!!!!

Thanks for all you do!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 16 2020

Friday, Oct. 16

Posted on October 16, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

We had a fabulous Friday on the gorgeous Fall day!

We listened to the story “The Runaway Pumpkin” and identified how the illustrations help us understand the story better!

The Runaway Pumpkin by Kevin Lewis

We also found items at home that begin the letter Uu’s sound!

Sesame Street The Letter Uu

In addition, we practiced writing numbers! We reviewed the verbal pathways for numbers 1-8. Please continue to count with your child everyday. Practice makes better! 🙂

Take a look at these adorable pictures!

This friend has an up arrow for the letter U!

This friend has a unicorn for the letter Uu’s long vowel sound.

These friends found umbrellas for the letter U’s short vowel sound.

Informative writing about a kangaroo!

Adding one more to 7 to make 8 pumpkins!

Thank you for all you do! Have a lovely weekend and a super sweet Sweetest Day with all of your sweeties!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 15 2020

Thursday, Oct. 15th

Posted on October 15, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today was another awesome learning experience on Zoom!

We learned the letter Uu! We practiced naming the characters in “Green Eggs and Ham”. We practiced identifying rhyming words from the story too! We also practiced identifying fiction and non-fiction books!

Letter U song from ABC Mouse

https://youtu.be/-fXYjpU3fC4

Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss

We also practiced ways to show 6 and 7! Here is a video for further understanding and enrichment for the concept of counting using a number path.

Eureka Math Module 1 lesson 20

We also visited Mystery Science to talk about the biggest apple!!! Click on the link below.

https://mysteryscience.com/trending/mystery-17/traits-selection/420?code=MTQ1NjIxOTc&t=student

Please do not forget to submit your assignments on Schoology today! We also have our Benchmark assignments too!!!

Afternoon work from Ms. Mehrhof

We used 2 colors to show ways to make 6 and 7

we did some work with a math story problem!

We have been learning about math equations (math sentences)

We went on a letter O hunt to review yesterday’s letter! This friend found Oreos and Oil.

we wrote N for non-fiction and F or fiction to point to as we identified Fiction and Non-fiction books.

https://youtu.be/7RRPqkPnRl8

Fiction vs. Non-Fiction

If you missed yesterday’s Zoom, the link is uploaded on Schoology!

Thank you for all you do!!!!

Love, Ms. Mehrhof

Oct 14 2020

Wednesday, Oct. 14th

Posted on October 14, 2020 by Kandi-kay Mehrhof

Hello Families!

Today was another awesome day on Zoom! I am looking forward to learning labs this afternoon! Please remember to on time both dropping off and picking up your child.

Here is the schedule for today:

Wasan, Amina, and Mohamed 1:55-2:40

Hussain and Hassan (twins) and Mahdi D. 3:00-3:50

I submitted a video recording on Schoology for the afternoon assignment for all students to view, complete, and submit by 4:00 today. Please be sure to visit Benchmark for your child’s assignments for the letter Oo. Thank you for all you do!!!!

Please remember, for our STEM activity in the morning…. Please have a basket of building items for your child. (legos. plastic containers, plastic or paper cups, blocks…..) Here are some great engineers at work!