Second Week in February (Valentine's Day/100th Day of School)

Writing: Finishing birthday pages for our next birthday book.

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Writing: Beginning a valentine message:

You are special because ...

Writing: Sharing her Valentine letter to her grandmother with classmates.

Writing: Share: The children are working on reading back their own writing pieces.

If unable to read what could have you done to make your writing piece easier to read?

A valentine letter to his mom!

A valentine letter to her sister!

A valentine letter to his dad!

 

A valentine letter to his brother!

A valentine letter to a classmate!

A valentine letter to a grandmother!

A valentine letter to her sister!

A valentine letter to his grandmother!

Monday's Read Aloud

Rhyming

Coloring a One Hundred's Day Crown while classmate's deliver valentines.

Delivering valentines

All the children read who their valentine was to and delivered it to the appropriate pocket themselves.

An example of the valentines that came in.  It was a great reading and writing opportunity for all children!

Monday's Quiet Time Choice: Small coloring within a  heart.

Proud to display her finished heart!

More  beautiful hearts!

Math: We generated number families to 10.

Practiced reading the number sentences.

The children worked at their seats to show their work for these nine problems.

Morning Meeting: Activity (vote).

Requested by administration.

Read aloud on the morning of Valentine's Day.

A heartwarming story!

SEL Class with Mrs. McDermott

Mrs. McDermott made this whale to be kept in our classroom.

Children can feed the whale with any worries they may have.

More delivering of valentines Tuesday morning.

We listened to this One Hundred story on cassette.

This book introduces many ways to get to 100.

Our math project was counting by 5s to 100.

Making a necklace of 100 beads counting by groups of five.

Seeing how far she is, counting by fives.

Look how far I am!

Proud to be finished!

Crown and necklace!

Please use these necklaces to practice counting by fives.

Kindergarten Goals: Skip counting by 2s, 5s, and 10s.

Math: Working through a maize of 100s!

Quiet Time Choice: Valentine's Day Color by Number.

The time has come to open valentines! 

Taking the time to read and try to solve his valentine riddle.

Having fun putting a plane together!

Having fun watching the stretchy man move!

Happy to receive her stretchy man!

Mr. Davis stops in and helps with listening to children read valentines and put their toys together.

The children had a really nice day! 💌

Thank you for your part in preparing valentines!

I enjoyed opening my valentines, thank you!

All are displayed on our classroom bulletin board!

We had fun!

Saving the crowns to wear again!

Waiting to treat Officer Galvin on Wednesday morning!

Special school wide recognition for Officer Galvin's accomplishments!

He was awarded the 2022 School Resource Officer of the Year award 

from the Maine Association of Police!

Wednesday's Morning Meeting: Singing to the birthday girl!

🧁 Happy 6th Birthday! 🎈

Reading: Practicing using her powers at Guided Reading.

Independent work with short i.

Quiet Time Choice: White boards

The birthday girl goes first with her Mystery Collection of 100!

Math: Listening to 100 Mystery Game clues and guessing the contents.

Calling on peers to guess the contents after reading a clue!

The birthday girl leads us upstairs to Allied Arts (music).

Choice Time: Floor checkers

Recess

 Mrs. Forrey-Pettit helps her select some treats from the office!

Mrs. Hallowell's first grade class invited us to come view 

and learn about their animal studies. 

She turned her 100 into a kitten!

Writing what he created with the number 100.

Our hallway display!

More sharing of Mystery One Hundred Collections.

Math: Place value work with unified cubes.

Math: Calendar: We are learning about place value in the hundreds place!

Choice time: Math table, free exploration with unified cubes.

He made a pattern.

Writing: Sharing completed true stories.

This one is about a family sledding trip.

The children selected one true story to fancy and share.

This true story is about friends at school.

Math: playing number detective with a 100s chart!

Math

Kindergarten Goal: Count by 1s to 100.

Kindergarten Goal: Count on by 1s from any number to 100.

Kindergarten Goal: Read numbers to 30.

Kindergarten Goal: Skip count by 5's to 50.

Kindergarten Goal: Skip count by 10s to 100.

Kindergarten Goal: Skip count by 2s to 30.

Please use this 100 chart to help practice any of the above skills.

Thrilled with their 3D creation with Magna Tiles.

Magna Tiles is till a popular choice at Choice Time!

The children are learning to wait their turn.

Busy Week!

I hope everyone has a wonderful Winter Break!