Mrs. Randall's Special Blog

We have started a new chapter in our class.  All students are going to a general education class daily for math.  I have seen some positive things happening!

Today in class one if my 4th graders was participating in the class discussion.

My 3rd graders are becoming more independent getting around the school.

All my students feel accepted in their new environment.

We will continue to do this throughout this school year.  Please let me know your thoughts about this cool experience as you talk with your child after school about their day.

I am very thankful to have such a terrific class to teach!  Check out these fun pictures from our First Nowlin Thanksgiving.

My students had a fun time with crazy hair day, mustache day and Pajama day this week!

GO NOWLIN SPIRIT!

Today and all week we have been building numbers and developing number sense.  Here is a great link to a site you can go with your child to work on what we did at school.

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We had a terrific time at the Library!  We are very excited to go back at some point during the school year.  I hope all of my students have a chance to go to the library with their families too!

This morning we left Nowlin at 9:30 and went to Petco.  We saw so many things there.  Students had a chance to watch 2 dogs being groomed.  We also saw 1 cat available for adoption.  In the small animal area we saw ferrets, hamsters, guinea pigs and mice.  We saw parakeets and parrots too!

Each group was able to pick out 2-3 fish to add to our classroom tank.  It was a very fun life experience.  I am so proud of all the studnets.  They behave so well and work together nicely.

This is a video of our fish take with all the fish we bought today.

Video of fish tank

It was a very worth while experience.  Even if you don’t have pets in your home, visiting a store like Petco gives children exposure to domestic animals.

Today was our first PBIS reward celebration.  All students earned the right join the group in watching a movie.  We watched a 20 minute video titled Mutant Pumpkins.  It was a fun way to spend a little time this afternoon.

Today was also our cooking, life skills, day.  We made a popcorn trail mix to enjoy while watching our movie.  Students counted by 1s, 3s, and 5s as we added nuts, rasins and chocolate chips to the popcorn we made in a whirley pop! It was very exciting to use our sense of smell and hearing as we listened and smelled the popcorn cook.

Wednesday we will be having our PBIS celebration! All students who have earned it will be able to watch a movie in school and enjoy some popcorn and goodies.

We will also be going on our Community Instruction field trip Friday. We will be going to Meijer to purchase some more fish for our fish tank in our class.

We were able to make an easy apple crisp today. The students had a fun time peeling the apples with an old fashioned apple peeler.

building numbers using Base 10

Above is a link you can use to help your students build a better number foundation.  They can build numbers using just ones, ones and tens and ones, tens and hundreds.

Start out with the simplest version and move them along as you feel they are ready.