Well, today I had  a very emotional end of my week.  Late this afternoon my homeroom parents, Mrs. Saleh and Mrs. Hassan, presented from you to me, a box of strawberries, dipped in pink chocolate and tied with 6 pink balloons. A handbell recording of “You Raise Me Up” was playing in the background. Secured underneath the pink ribbons were tickets to see “The King and I’ at the Fox Theater and a gift card for dinner at Mitchell’s after the show!  There are no words to express my thanks to each of you.  You did not have to do this at all…I chose this profession because I LOVE kids.  I love helping them and just being with them.  Each one is so precious to me.  You may have given birth to them, but I always feel like they are mine!!

I knew this Mother’s Day would be difficult but thanks to you, I will carry my mother and my students with me on Sunday.  Thank you for the kind words in the letter.  I am overwhelmed with gratitude an will remember this day for the rest of my life.  God Bless you all and Happy Mother’s Day.

Mrs. Smith

This bowl has been in my room since the St. Valentine’s Day party.  Since I was not here that day, I don’t know who sent it in with maybe strawberries in it??  Check your cupboards and let me know.

Tomorrow is our Field Day and the weather reports suggest cooler temperatures are coming.

Please have your child wear gym shoes and a sweatshirt/sweater/light weight jacket.  We will be outside from 9:00-11:00

Thank you all for coming today to our BAGELS WITH MOM.  For those who took off the time from work, please thank your boss for me.  I see the anticipation and excitement with the kids and your presence is so very important to them.  You can never get back these days so grab every one you can.

Waiting for our Moms to arrive

Thank you for the flowers yesterday.  Perhaps you noticed them along the bagel line.  The best part for me was seeing the kids come in, with big smiles, and handling their bouquets to me.  They were so pleased to give them to me.  Thank you.

Lastly, who is responsible for my bulletin board??  It is amazing!!  From the eggs on the leaf, the caterpillars coming out, the caterpillars eating the leaves, the 2 chrysalises forming, and finally the emergence of the beautiful butterflies.  Spectacular!  If you haven’t seen it, please stop in and take a glance.

Enjoy your weekend and have a blessed Mother’s Day!

Mrs. Smith

Tomorrow, Thursday, is our much anticipated day “BAGELS WITH MOM” Day!!  See you at 9:00 tomorrow.  (You might want to bring your camera.  They’re pretty cute!)

FRIDAY-Field Day  All classes will be outside playing games.  It’s always a fun day and kids remember Field Day.  Please have your child wear tennis/gym shoes.  We will be outside from 9:00-11:00.

See you tomorrow.  We should be finished by 10:00 am

Another week has come and gone and we were so busy that I forgot to post my blog!! Sorry!

Here’s what’s coming up this week…

READING-Sea Creatures   We’re starting with SHARKS today.

WRITING-Informational Writing about Sea Creatures   We’ll be gathering information about the creatures of the sea, organizing the information, use proper grammar and punctuation, etc for this week’s writing.

I will be giving them a lot of information and, as always, I will be checking for comprehension.

SPELLING- “ad” chunk words  Dad (MUST begin with  a capital letter, it’s a name), mad, sad, glad, pad, bad, lad, tad      him   his

MATH-In anticipation and preparation for NWEA (week of May 14) I will be doing reviews of several MATH concepts, units, etc.  This week I will be reviewing addition and subtraction problems and I will be stressing to  check the sign. Look for the +  or – sign.

SCIENCE-Sea Creatures

SOCIAL STUDIES-Timelines    Yesterday, today, Tomorrow

Have a great week and enjoy this beautiful Spring weather!

Mrs. Smith

“Today I shall behave, as if this is the day I will be remembered.”  -Dr. Seuss

Tomorrow is Spring Pictures Day.  A form went home on Tuesday.

We are sooooo busy in here!

Our main focus right now is SCIENCE.  Last week we planted sunflower seeds.  As with all SCIENTISTS, we are learning how to observe, record our observations, compare data, and predict.  The students are so excited each morning to see the growth of their plant.  We have made entries for 2 weeks now and I am impressed with their observations.  Good SCIENTISTS in here.

READING-Seeds   We read The Sunflower House.

WRITING-INFORMATIONAL (with descriptive words about a specific flower.)

MATH-Graphing   We will be making different kinds of graphs (in order to set them up as reviews for NWEA in a few weeks) and comparing the graphs.  we started today with a pictograph of different pets.

SCIENCE-Seeds and Plants

SOCIAL STUDIES- Taking a stand on an issue  (on report card)

I tired to take some pictures of them “observing” and recording information with their plants today. I know I didn’t get each student this time but you’ll get the idea.

Stay dry, warm, and I hope you have power.  🙂  About 3/4 of my class was without power this weekend!

Mrs. Smith

Spirit week:

Monday- Pajama day & know what country your family originated from

Tuesday- Mismatch day & receiving a template of the flag your from color and return tomorrow

Wednesday-Wacky hair day or Hat day & turn in flag colored

Thursday-Sports day

We had 2 more readers for our MARCH IS READING MONTH.

Hussein Fayad and Mom          Tiana Soueid and Mom

and……check out today’s math!

It all began by reading The Foot Book. 

Next we decided to count how many feet were in our class.  (250)

Then came my question, “If there are 25 pairs of feet in here, how many toes are in here?”

We then discovered multiplying by 10 means adding 1 zero to a number.  If multiplying by 100 (which has 2 zeros), then add 2 zeros to a number. Of course we had to explore bigger numbers to prove our theory and Ta Dah!!!  We were doing 3rd grade math!

Life is so great in here.

To finish off our week of Dr. Seuss books, I am going to read Fox in Socks.  I thought it would be fun for the kids to wear a funny or fun pair of socks that day.  🙂