In honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday coming up, we reviewed word families today by creating Dr. Seuss words (aka nonsense words). The kids were loving it and giggling so much!





Then we reviewed the gl and bl blends. They're getting really good at this blending!


In writing, we worked on identifying days of the week, how to properly write them, and how to use them in our writing.


We started to plan for a pretend party and created a lis of people that we would like to invite. Tomorrow we'll decide what day of the week and which month we'll have our pretend parties. A good party planner always includes their day of the week and month on their invite!;)






We played "I have, who has" with numbers 1-20 today in math. This is always a fun game no matter what skill you're working on! They begged me to keep playing, so I told them that we would play again tomorrow and see if we can beat our time. I love that they don't even realize that they're learning!!!





We continued working on number bonds, too. They sure were hard at work!


Be on the lookout for these bookmarks inside of their reading books from time to time. They have great reading strategies on them!


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Blends, number bonds, and toothless Jess

We reviewed blends this morning and learned about the "gl" blend. Aubriana and Adam did a great job with helping us review and find our previously learned blends!





Alexee and Lezlie did a great job with thinking of some "gl" words!


Alexee write glimmer.


And Lezlie wrote glob.


Mr. John, our teacher for the day, helped us read some our sight words. We keep finding this word everywhere in our fictional stories!


During math, I introduced a new concept called number bonds. This is to help the kids with their number/addition fluency.


The kids did a fabulous job with this concept!


It helps them think about what parts make a whole.


I told them that it's like a puzzle and that you have to figure out the two parts to make a whole.


Little Miss Carrie was the Music star today. Awesome job!


Jessica's mom sent me this pic tonight. She was out sick today and was disappointed that she wasn't going to be able to show me and the rest of Team Dees that she lost her first tooth. So here ya go! This is such exciting stuff!

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Chit chatty Friday

Friday was packed with lots of review, dental hygiene, and birthday celebrating.



During our morning meeting, we review different concepts that have been taught over the year. The kids are catching on great with fixing up the mistakes!



We had a visit from Dr. Cloud and his tooth.


He always does a great visual of how you should properly brush and floss your teeth. I learned a song from his visit two years ago that my own kids still do EVERY single time they brush..."Up like a rocket, down like the rain, back and forth like a choo choo train."


Friday afternoon we celebrated George Washington's Birthday with a cute craftivity.


They love getting to use cotton balls for his hair! It's the little things! :)


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A foggy, foggy night

Can you believe this crazy Arkansas weather? It's warm one day, the next it's sleeting, then it's raining and now it's foggy! No wonder the sick bugs keep coming around!

I wanted to show this pic from yesterday of Aaron. He wrote that if he were the president, he would go bowling because the White House has a bowling alley inside of it. Ha!


This morning we started the day with playing "I Spy". Chloe figured out that I was spying the flag so we could learn about the FL blend.


Then we made our own flags. I LOVE how they all interpreted the directions and made their own piece of art!











During writing, we did a class writing about George Washington and added details.





We even were able to identify the pronouns in our class story and other other sentences from our read aloud.





During Science, we've been learning about gravity. Today we identified objects that are in the sky and stay there vs. objects that go in the sky and rerun to Earth. Can you tell me which category a cloud falls under? I think it's appropriate that it was so foggy tonight considering we had this question pop up today!


Bowling!!! What a perfect way to compensate for no outdoor recess today and learn subtraction all at the same time! Each kid got a turn to bowl and give us a number sentence for what occurred with the pins. So fun!








Did you see this bunch of cuties?!?! I'm so BLessed to be surrounded by them everyday! I love our class pic!


I saw this on one of my teacher friends Facebook pages and thought it was too good not to copy. I truly believe this and wanted to share!


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Windy, cold, icy Wednesday

You know I'm a teacher because I was so excited about the fact that we stayed in school ALL day considering the weather and we don't have to worry about making it up! :)


During Phonics we worked on segmenting phonemes (the sounds in the words). We focused on listening to the beginning, middle, and end of each word.


They did a great job!


I must say that I was impressed with last nights homework! My friends came back today with some awesome CL words! John wrote Clifford.


Wes thought of click.


Zachary thought of cloudy and drew a picture of it in his CL book.


I was so excited to finally start this center today for sight word review! They get to look at sight words on farm animals dancing Gangnam Style and then rainbow write them. Umm...Gangnam Style and using cool writing tools=so fun!


During math, we worked on subtraction more and practiced using the number line.



Then they got to work with their partners to practice writing subtraction sentences and using the number line. After they learned about Gangnam Style sight words and Subtraction Dice Roll, my Kinders asked me if I could be their 3rd grade teacher too because they thought these two things were the coolest things ever. Ha! I love how easy it is to make a cute Kinder happy! :)


At the end of the day, I received this sweet little Valentine from one of my former Team Dees members. My heart has had a BIG smile on it ever since! ;)


I hope that you all are staying warm tonight and have plenty of bread and milk just in case! :)

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