I hope you all have enjoyed the break and time off of screens! I know I have enjoyed the time with loved ones! However, I have missed my little friends very much!!! I am looking forward to seeing their adorable smiling faces on Monday!
I wish you all a 2021 that is full of God’s blessings as well as good health for you and all of your loved ones! 2020 certainly had its challenges, but it had many wonderful surprises and moments as well! But, as we head into a new year, let us not forget to be mindful and grateful for all of what we have and WHO we have around us! Let us not take for granted anything! I know we all have learned and gained so much heading out of 2020 and into 2021. I am excited for all that is come with school, family, and a new year full of hope and possibilities! I am thankful we get to share it all together!
I am so blessed and feel so honored to get to spend time each week day with your children on Zoom! As we close out 2020 I want to thank all of you for all you do for your children at home! You are such an important part of their happiness and success! Thank you all so much! I wish all of you a very Merry Christmas and super blessed and healthy New Year!!!
Take a look at how we ended our week!
We added 4 more letters to our flash card collection to practice matching the upper and lowercase letters as we say the letter’s name and sound.We listened to “Merry Christmas Big Hungry Bear” by Don and Audry Wood. We made predictions of what we think will be inside of Mouse’s big present!This friend predicts there will be a car inside of the present.This friend predicts there will be a toy inside of the present.We are working on adding color and detail to our drawings too!This friend predicted there will be food and water inside of the present. Maybe because we have been learning about the needs of living things! We used 2D shapes to draw Santa! We orally identified the 2D shapes we used!We used 2D shapes to draw Santa! We orally identified the 2D shapes we used!
We will have a sing along today with other Oakman classes and Mrs. F.! Thank you, Mrs. F. for this awesome and joyous experience for the children and staff!!! The sing a long will be on the Zoom link I sent from Mrs. F. at 2:00.
Please remember to visit Reading Eggs over the break! Remember more so to simply rest, relax, and enjoy one another!
I hope you all have enjoyed this snowy day! It is so beautiful to see the white snow falling outside the window! The children and I have had some fun with snowmen and….. SANTA and MRS. CLAUS! They came to my house to visit us on Zoom! What a surprise!!! Your children are so special, they came all they way from the North Pole!
Tomorrow is Pajama Day!!! Your child can wear their pajamas on Zoom!!!
Today was Dress Like a Snowman Day!We used snow from outside to make our own snowmen!!!We were creative with what to use for eyes and nose!This friend used birthday cake candles for her snowman’s arms.This friend used a pencil for the snowman’s nose!This friend used straws for the snowman’s arms!This friend used a baby carrot for the snowman’s nose!These friends worked together to create their snowman!This friend used crayons for their snowman’s body parts.I introduced the children to the math concept of area! Area is the space inside of a shape. We drew a rectangle and found the area of our rectangle using cubes for the units.We stretched the word snowman to write all of the sounds that we hear. We also clapped the syllables for snowman!! Snowman has 2 syllables!We are really enjoying Reading Eggs!
We had a very special visit from Santa and Mrs. Claus!!! Thank you, Mrs. Peterson for joining us!!
We counted to 100 with Santa and Mrs. Claus!Santa read “The Night Before Christmas” by Clement Clark MooreSanta brought his beautiful wife, Mrs. Claus!We asked Santa questions and sang songs together!Merry Christmas to all!!!
We have been having such a great last week of 2020!!! Tomorow we will have two very special visitors on Zoom….from the North Pole!!! Please be sure to join us on Zoom at 2:45 for the surprise!!!
We drew what the Grinch looked like at the end of the story…The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss.We drew what the Grinch looked like at the end of the story…The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss.We drew what the Grinch looked like at the end of the story…The Grinch Who Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss.We drew our favorite Christmas character.As a formative assessment, we used our white boards to show an X is the words did not rhyme and a smiley if the words did rhyme!As a formative assessment, we used our white boards to show an X is the words did not rhyme and a smiley if the words did rhyme!We illustrated the main topic of the informational text!We molded a bowl with enough CAPACTIY to hold 7 pennies!We graphed our favorite Christmas character!We dressed up as a Christmas character!We wore our cute Christmas sweaters!We are loving Christmas Spirit Week!We dressed as our favorite Christmas character!We wore our favorite Christmas sweaters!We reviewed the Question Mark!We blended words that have a medial vowel a.We designed a Santa trap!We dressed in green for the Grinch!We found items at home that begin with letter O’s sound
I am excited for the special visit tomorrow afternoon and of course to see all of my students in the morning!!! We will be working on the emergent reader that I delivered yesterday! Please do not do anything with it tonight!
Thank you for all you do!!!
Congratulations to Hussain A. for begin Student of the Week for week 15! Congratulations to Hassan B. for being the Art Student of the Week!
Week 16’s Student of the Week is…… Wasan!!!! Congratulations!
Please remember to submit work daily into the Schoology assignments!!
Please remember, tomorrow starts our Spirit Week!!! Wear a Christmas sweater if you have one….or maybe make a creative one with a shirt you already have!
Spirit Week information!
PLEASE remember to create your homemade gingerbread house with sweet treats that you have at home! Submit a one minute video to me no later than 11:45 tomorrow!!! I will send them in for the Oakman School Gingerbread Challenge!
Here is an example of a homemade gingerbread house!Have fun a fun week!!!
This was such a great week with the children on Zoom! So many are participating and submitting work on Schoology! I am seeing such incredible work! Thank you!
Take a look at what we did today!
We made more flash cards to add to our memory game for matching upper and lowercase letter!We practiced the letter Ss!!!We drew to sort pictures of things that begin with the letter Ss sound….. spoon, snake, and swing.We are beginning to learn about capacity! We explored the capacity of different containers in our home by pouring water!We used 4 different sizes of containers to investigate capacity!We discussed which container has the most capacity for holding the most amount of water.Please remember, Monday starts Spirit Week!!! Please take a look at what we will be doing for each day!
“Take a Step Back and Ask for Help” We learned about asking for help and that it is more than ok to use respectful and calm voice to ask for help.
Oakman’s Gingerbread House Decorating Competition- Submit a 1 minute video by Monday
I am so thankful for another day of seeing my students’ smiles and hearing their laughter on Zoom.
Take a look at what we did today! I hope you all enjoyed the time with Reading Eggs this afternoon.
We practiced the letter Pp! We wrote the letter and found items in our homes that begin with the letter Pp’s sound.We learned what an illustrator does! Then we became illustrators after reading the “The Biggest Christmas Tree Ever” by Steven KrollWe read a Benchmark book online and practiced word by word match!Then we wrote an I can….sentence!We practiced an addition story problem. We made our own balance scales to investigate how to keep the scale balanced with pennies.We spent time this afternoon on Reading Eggs! Click here for step by step directions for accessing Reading Eggs.We illustrated the main topic of our informational book…..reindeer!
Teachers have a meeting this afternoon. We will have a quick parent meeting at 12:25 today to review the steps for getting onto Reading Eggs. Reading Eggs will be your child’s work for this afternoon in place of learning labs.
We had another wonderful Wednesday! Tomorrow we will have our Morning Zoom meeting. However, due to meetings, I will not be on Learning Labs. The children will have a fun learning activity to do!
Take a look at what we did today!
We discussed how to keep our pan balance scale leveled (or balanced) by find equal quantities to measure.We did a story problem. There were 5 snowballs. The sun came out and melted 3 snowballs. How many snowballs are left?We listened to “Tough Cookie” by Edward Hemingway. We discussed the importance of the illustrations to help tell the story. We noticed detail that the tough cookie had a string on his head…..because he wasn’t a cookie….he was an ornament! We then illustrated our own tough cookies and made them into ornaments.During Wednesday STEM we made Christmas trees and decorated them!
Next Week is the last school week of 2020! Take a look at what we will b doing for Spirit Week!
We told and illustrated the problem in the story for Olive the Other Reindeer by Otto Seibold! Santa’s sleigh got stuck in a tree!We drew what would happen if we were on a seesaw with a kitten! We are heavier than a kitten.We did a RAN chart for reindeer! Then we drew reindeer!We found our new sight word, all, in the message!
Thank you for all you do!
PLEASE keep this a surprise, but for your planning purposes, Santa and Mrs. Claus will be joining our zoom session at 2:45 to 3:45 on Thursday, Dec. 17th.
