Friday, January 29, 2010

Day 95

Today is 95.
Today is Ja'Mario's birthday.
We sang a song to him.
We finished our January Calendar.

Today is Ms. Gordon's last day.
We are going to miss her.
Melanie is sad.
She doesn't want Ms. Gordon to leave.
Ja'Mario had Mrs. Baker in Pre-K.

We made our book.
Our words this week said "He will be a ____."
We highlighted our word be.
That is the word we learned this week.
We cut our sentences apart.
Then put it together.
Then drew a pictures.

Mrs. Washington came for reading group.
She gave treats to the friends who did the right thing!

We went to lunch.
We had pizza or fish sticks.
It was good.
James got a belly ache.
Then he rested his body.

Randy G. got a friend.
He is going to come on Friday.

We are almost to 100.

Briana had bubble gum.
She got it on her leg.
How?

We worked in math centers.

Mrs. V. had a meeting.
A long meeting.

Mr. Potato Head came with Ms. McClure.
He was ready to go swimming.

Mrs. F. read to us about Wilma Rudolph.
She a lady.
She is fast.
She ran.
She was the fastest.
When she was little she couldn't walk.
We are learning about her.
She had polio.

We worked in centers.

Some friends helped Mrs. V. make the new calendar.
For February.
We have three birthdays coming up.
Cornella's will be first.
Brian and James too.
We have a field trip and two assemblies.
And the 100th day!!!!!!

We had a good day.

Tonight it is going to SNOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

We had a good week!

Thursday, January 28, 2010

Day 94

Today is number 94.
We have six more days until 100.
Today we put a white snow man in our calendar.
Our pattern is almost done.
The month is almost done.

We read Fiesta!
We drew pictures of one and more than one.
There was one basket.
There was one pinata.
There was more than one airplane.
There was more than one horn.
There was more than one ring.
There was more than one piece of gum.
There was more than one piece of candy.

We talked about punctuation again.

Mrs. Washington came for reading group.

We went to lunch.
We had macaroni and cheese or cheeseburgers.
That is cheese on both.
It was good.

We went to the library.
We got new books.
We brought them back to class.

We learned about the present.
The present is today.
We learned about the past.
The past is a long long time ago.

In math we learned about shapes.
We talked about length, width, height, size, color, texture.
We work in math centers.

We had guidance.
Ms. McClure told us about Trustworthy.
We made necklaces.

We went to centers.

We went outside.
It was warm.
It is supposed to snow tomorrow.
We might get to leave early.
Maybe.

We said Happy Birthday to someone.

He is on a boat.
Today is his birthday!

We had a good day!

Wednesday, January 27, 2010

Day 93

Today is number 93.
We have 7 more days until 100.
Today we learned at the calendar.
We learned about the day.
We added a blue mitten to our pattern.
The date is 1-27-10.
January 27, 2010
We listened to the Calendar Polka song on the radio.
(And we sang it over and over)

We guessed what our book was going to be about.
It is in Spanish.
It is called Fiesta!
We liked the book.

We did exercises with a new friend.

His name is Freddie!
You can do it too!


We went to lunch.
We had breakfast for lunch.

We wrote about the weather.

We learned about punctuation.
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?
!
" "

We took a walk to look at the projects.
The science projects.
James liked the one with perfume.
Na'Zosheona liked the band aid one.
Mrs. F. liked the swinging penny one.
Randy G. liked the soda one.
Cornella liked the bubble gum one.
Luis liked the balloon one.
Iker liked the perfume one.
Briana liked the penny that goes up and down one.

We went to the computer lab.

We were supposed to have a fire prevention assembly.
They didn't come.
We learned about fire prevention with Franklin.
We learned you need a smoke alarm.
It is loud.
Mrs. Parker's class came to our class.
They were going to learn about the fire.
The fire people will come in February.

We did not work in centers today.
We ran out of time.

We went outside.

We are going to go on a field trip.
We have to bring money.
We are going to the cookie factory.

We had guidance.
We read about Franklin.
He told a fib.
That isn't trustworthy.

Everyone didn't earn Caring.
Everyone earned Achieving, Trustworthy, Safe.

We had a good day!

Tuesday, January 26, 2010

Day 92

When we got to school, Mrs. V. had our science project ready.
It was in the hall.

All the classes have science projects in the hall.
We are going to go look at them later.
Tomorrow.
We are excited.

We learned at the calendar.
We put in a yellow mitten in the calendar.
Yesterday was red.
Yesterday was home day.
We learned about the day.
We have Guidance.
We have 8 more days until 100.
That is a little.
After 8 days, we are going to have another bundle.
Then we get to make another bundle.
For 100.

We learned about punctuation.
We learned about
.
!
?
" "
A period is to stop.
A exclamation mark is when you are excited.
A question mark is for asking questions.
Quotation marks are for talking.

We had reading group.
Mrs. V.'s group started new books.
Mrs. Washington's group learned the Ll sound.

We went to lunch.
We had chicken nuggets or steak sandwich.
It was good.
Melanie was the only one that had steak sandwich.

We learned about weather.
We are making a weather book.

Today it was sunny and cold.
We drew that in our book.

In math we learned about describing words.
Height
Weight
Length
Texture
Color
Width
Height is for measuring how high.
Weight is for measuring how much thing weigh.
Length is for measuring how long.
Texture is for feeling.
Width is for measuring how wide.

We looked at our bird feeders.
The seeds are missing.
We will make more.

Ms. McClure brought Mr. Potato head with her.

Every body got CATS.
Jovany went home sick.

We had a good day!

Friday, January 22, 2010

Day 91

Today was day 91.
We are close to 100.
We went to the calendar.
We added a yellow mitten.
We have 9 more days until 100.
That is a little.
We talked about the date.

We finished out science project.
We shook our pictures to find out which things would fall off.

Then we wrote about what we saw.
It is an observation.

We found out that the white glue was the best.
Then gel glue, then rubber cement, then glue sticks.
Mrs. V. will put our board together.
It will be ready after our home days.

We had reading group.

We made bird feeders for birds.






Mr. Kyle came to put up bird houses for the birds.


We are working to feed birds.
During the winter.
They can't find food.

We started another blog to talk about that.

We went to lunch.
We had pizza and turkey pie.
It was good.

James was a teacher.
He gave some friends lollipops.
Randy A, Brian, Randy G, Luis.

We went to art.
We made elephants.
We put the trunks.
White and black paint makes gray.
Red and white makes pink.

We had a good day!
We had a great week!

(Mrs. V. is glad to be done asking friends questions!
Mrs. F. is glad to be back in our room and done with testing the big kids!)

Thursday, January 21, 2010

Day 90

Today was number 90.
We have 9 bundles.
We have 90 stickers.
Mr. Caterpillar is 90 days old.
We have 90 tally marks.
We are almost to 100.
We had 10 more days until 100.
We are going to have a party on 100.
We have 90 more days of Kindergarten.
Then we go to first grade.

We learned at the calendar.
We went to reading groups.
We went to work in centers.

Mrs. V. did a lot of asking friends questions today.

Some friends made bad choices.
They were wrestling.
Mrs. V. said this is not where John Cena lives.
(He is a wrestler.)

We went to lunch.
We had chicken and spaghetti.
We got to tell them what we wanted.
We earned a sticker for eating fruits and vegetables.

Mrs. F. had to go to another class.
She has been in testing.
For big kids.

We watched a video that Mr. Ray's class made.
It is about Haiti.
Something bad happened there.

We are going to bring money.
We are going to send it to them.
Do you want to help us be CATS?

We had a good day!
We are going to do even better tomorrow!

Wednesday, January 20, 2010

Day 89

Today is number 89.
First we did our writing test.
We wrote about what we like to do with our friends.
Then Mrs. V. gave us candy.
We had to be quiet.

Did you see how quiet we were?
Did you see how long Mr. Caterpillar is?

Then we had reading.
Mrs. Washington came.
She was proud of our behavior.

Then we went to lunch.
We had chicken nuggets and macaroni and cheese.
We got to pick our own vegetables.
And fruit. And chocolate pudding.
It was good.

We read Piggie Pie!
We LOVE that book!

Then we worked on our science project.
We made a prediction.
Our hypothesis is that rubber cement will be the best glue.
We voted!

Then we glued out stuff.
We used beads.
Paper and fabric.


Then we let it dry.


Then we worked on math.
We are counting.

We went to art.
We went outside.
It started to rain.

We had a good day!

Tuesday, January 19, 2010

Day 88

Today was number 88.
Today is Tuesday.
Yesterday was a home day.
Today we learned about the day at the calendar.
We put in a blue mitten.
We added a new sticker.
We added a straw.
We had 18 friends at school today.
Danica doesn't go to our school any more.
Gage doesn't either.
Junior moved to Mexico.
A lot of days ago.

We had visitors.
Big Breana and Jay Jay.

James told us about what he did on his home day.
He went to a march.
Briana told us about a picture she had.
She is a pretty dress.
She is a baby.

We learned new sounds in reading.
We all made good choices.
That made Mrs. V. happy.

Mrs. F. had to go to testing.

Mrs. V. asked us questions.
We told her answers.
She asks us questions to find out what we know.

We worked in centers.

We learned about a science project.
We are going to figure out which glue works the best.
We made a prediction.
A prediction is a guess.
The big word is hypothesis.

Mrs. F. read to us.

Mrs. V. had a meeting.

We had a good day!


Friday, January 15, 2010

Day 87

Today we were so busy, that Mrs. V. and Mrs. F. had to write our blog.

Today our friends worked very hard in school. First thing this morning, they wrote sentences and questions. During group they sang their favorite song four times. They sure do love the calendar polka song. We added a blue mitten to our calendar pattern. Our friends made a prediction about what tomorrow's calendar piece will be. They are guessing snowman.

Then, we all added another shape, straw, tally mark and sticker, and then figured out how many days we had been in school. Today was the eighty-seventh day of school. We have 87 shapes, 87 straws, 87 tally marks, and 87 stickers. Mr. Caterpillar has 87 circles!

After morning group, we read the book Flower Garden one more time. Today we compared the book Flower Garden to the book Bunny Cakes. We said the books both had birthdays and cakes and girls. Then we noticed that both books both have dirt. In Bunny Cakes the dirt is in a cake. In Flower Garden, the dirt is in the window box.

Then we had reading groups. All of our friends made good choices in their groups. That made us proud.

We went to lunch. Today for lunch, our friends had pizza and chicken. They are also trying to eat a vegetable and a fruit every day. If they each eat a vegetable and a fruit for lunch, we get to put a sticker on the chart. We are trying to get a sticker every day for ten weeks!

Our friends learned more about Martin Luther King Jr. today. They made a book about Martin. They listened to a story about his big words and they got to see a video about his speech with his big words. We don't have school Monday, because we are going to celebrate Martin Luther King Jr. and all the work he did!

Our friends finished making their number books in Math. Today they did the pages for numbers seventeen, eighteen, nineteen and twenty.

Today we had a fire drill, and we got to go outside for recess. Mrs. White gave our class some really neat stencils for outside.


We all had a really great day! All our friends earned CATS!

Thursday, January 14, 2010

Day 86

Today is number 86.
We went to the calendar.
We added a yellow mitten.
We are closer to 100 days of school.
Tomorrow we have school.

We made a number book in math.

We sang our new favorite song.
The Calendar Polka.
January, February, March
April, May, June
July, August, September,
October, November, December
That's the tune.
We made a video.

We sing that song....ALL DAY LONG!

We read Flower Garden again.
We drew pictures of things we do with our families.
They are called traditions.

Some friends were disrespectful to Mrs. Washington.
Again.
They didn't earn CATS.

We went to media.
All our friends made good choices in media.

We watched a movie about Martin Luther King Jr.

We took books to a box.
The box is going to Africa.
The kids don't have books.
We took some of our books to give to them.


We went outside to the front lawn.

We went to lunch.
We had hot dogs and pizza dippers.
It was good.

We are working to make good choices.
It is hard some times.

Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Day 85.

Today is 85.
We went to the calendar.
We put added a red mitten to our pattern.
Tomorrow will be yellow.
It will be a mitten.
Today is Wednesday.

We went to reading.
We made prediction pictures.
Mrs. V. gave us all different pictures.
We guessed what will happen next.
James had a picture of a boy playing a trumpet.
James thought that he would make a band next.
Mrs. V. put some on the board.

We had reading group with Mrs. Washington and Mrs. V.

Then we read our sentences.

Then we went to lunch.
We had spaghetti or chicken sandwiches.
The strawberries were really really cold.
It was good.

Na'Zosheona went to meeting.
They talked a lot.
And got candy.
It was a long talk.
Then we got candy.
She said she didn't talk a lot.
She was being shy.
She is shy when she doesn't know them.
She didn't know those people.
There were lots of kids there.
We have been singing a song all day.

We went to computer.
Ms. Robinson gave us two new computers for our room.
Mrs. V. is going to hook them up today.

We went to media.
Braina got in trouble.
She was shouting out.
She apologized.

We got to play outside.
We were so excited.

A lot of friends had a hard time making good choices.
We are all going to try better tomorrow.
We all want to earn CATS every day!

Tuesday, January 12, 2010

Day 84

Today is 84.
Today is in 2010.
We sang days of the week.
Today we added a snowman to our calendar.

This morning it snowed outside.
It was pretty.
Then it stopped.
James came to school to tell us it was snowing.
Briana already knew.
During group, Mrs. V. told us about her friend.
She is sick.
But getting better.
She is a baby.
We want her to come to school with us.
We want her to play with Barbies.
Mrs. V. said she had a blog.
We have a blog too.
We took a picture for her blog.


We read a new book.
But not the words.
We looked at pictures.
We made predictions.
We made predictions about Knuffle Bunny.
We guessed what would happen in the story.
The little girl lost her bunny.
We drew pictures of what happened next.
We guessed right!

We went to reading group.
We learned the u sounds.

We read our sentences.
My flower is _____.
We put in colors.

We went to lunch.
We had taco salad and cheeseburgers.
It was good.

We learned about numbers in math.
We worked on our number book.
We put stickers on it.

We learned about pets in science.
We wrote about what we do with pets.
We like to play with our pets.

In media, we learned about book awards.

We took a walk outside.

We worked in centers.
Math centers.
Learning centers.
We had fun.

We had a good day!
Everyone earned CATS!

Monday, January 11, 2010

Day 83

The year is 2010.
We have been in school 83 days.
Today we went to the calendar.
We added a blue mitten to our calendar pattern.
We added a straw to the pocket.
We counted the days at school.

We read a book.
It was on the big t.v..
We read about animals.
In the winter.

We read a big book.
It was about plants.
It is called Flower Garden.
We played I spy.
We used color words to describe.

We played the bug game.
We hit the bugs.
The bugs have words.
The words on our wall.

We added more words to our wall.
We added Barbie.
And Spiderman.
And friend.

We went to the library.
We took our books back.
We got new books.
We brought back new books.

We worked in centers.

We did work.
We started making a book.
It is a number book.
It is in math.
We added the number.
We added the stickers.

We went to lunch.
We al had chicken nuggets.

We wrote about our pets.
We wrote using our sounds.
We told Mrs. V. what we wrote.

Randy G. and Briana came to school late.

We learned about science.
We are going to start a project.
We did not go outside.

We had a good day!

Friday, January 8, 2010

Day 82

Today was number 82.
We are closer to 100.

We came to school late.
We went right to lunch.
Danica, Shamara, Briana and Mrs. F. didn't come to school.
Gage moved to a new school.
We miss him.
Mr. Smith was here for Mrs. F..
We were good for Mr. Smith.
Mrs. V. had a meeting.
James thinks it was a long meeting.
At lunch we had taco salad and chicken sandwich.
It was good.

We finished our calendar.
We read about Martin Luther King Jr..
We learned he was little.
Then he became a preacher like James' daddy.
And like his daddy.
And Mrs. V.'s daddy.
And James' daddy's daddy.

We went to P.E..

We played our swat the bug game.

We worked in centers.

We had a good day!
We had a great week!
We all earned CATS!

Thursday, January 7, 2010

Day 81

Today is 81.
Today we went to the calendar.
We added a blue mitten to our calendar.
We learned our letters and words.
On Starfall we started learning how to do sign language for the alphabet.

We think it is pretty neat.

We didn't go to reading group.
We went to listen to the music.

We each got to play them too!

It was cool.
We want to do that every day.

We went to lunch.
We had corndogs and ziti.
It was good.

We learned about seasons.
It is winter.
It is cold in the winter.

We went to P.E..

We didn't go outside.
We don't have recess on P.E. weeks.

We learned a new game.
We didn't have time to play it.
We will tomorrow!

We had a good day!

Wednesday, January 6, 2010

Day 80

Today is number 80.
We have 20 more days until 100th day of school.
We will have a party that day!
We have 100 more days of school!
We went to the calendar.
We learned about the day.
We added a yellow mitten to our calendar.

We read the book Bunny Cakes.
We talked about cause and effect.
James said that cause and effect is like when you are walking.
That is the cause and the effect is when you slip on the banana peel.
We drew pictures of cause and effect.


We went to reading groups.
Mrs. Washington's group learned the h sound.

Before lunch we had a visitor.
He brought a guitar.
He played it.
He sang a song.

He goes to college.
In New York.
He got to college by listening to his teacher.
We want to go to college.
He is going to college to be a song writer.

We went to lunch.
We had pizza and turkey pie.
It was good.
We had milk today.

We learned about zoo animals.
We looked at the animals on the big t.v..
We saw a horse.
We saw a snake.
We wrote about the animals in the zoo.

In math, we made our January calendar.
We started today.
We will finish tomorrow.


We went to P.E..
We worked in centers.

We had a good day!

Tuesday, January 5, 2010

Day 79

Today was day 79.
Today is Tuesday.
It is January.
It is 2010.
It is Winter.
Today was a red mitten on our calendar.
We are making a pattern.
Red mitten, yellow mitten, blue mitten, snowman.
Then it will repeat.

We made question marks.
We made a book about questions.
We read Bunny Cakes.
It has Max and Ruby.
The book we made is about Max and Ruby.
It is called ?.

We went to reading groups.
We didn't learn any new sounds today.

Today we had milk.
We had milk at lunch.
We got to drink it.
We had chicken and grilled cheese.
It was good.

We learned about animals.
Wild animals.
Wild animals live in the wild.
Outside in the wild.
They get their food from outside.
People do not feed them.
We saw a picture of a snake.
It was eating a mouse.
Mrs. F. does not like snakes.

Eric came to our class.
He was not making good choices in his class.
He was good for us.
He made good choices in our class.

In math, we read The Very Hungry Caterpillar.
We talked about the days of the week.
We are learning about the calendar.
We went to math centers.

We read the wall.
It has the abc.
It has words.

We went to P.E..
We learned about stations.
A station means you have to punch where you want to go.
You go one to two to three to four to five.
There are cones.
There are balls.
We didn't go outside.
It is cold.

We went to learning centers.

We had a good day!

Monday, January 4, 2010

Day 78

Today is number 78.
Today was the first day back from break.
We went to the calendar.
We learned about the new month.
We learned about the new year.
2010
It isn't 2009.
Ja'Mario has a birthday in January.
We have two days we don't have school in January.
We are making a new pattern on the calendar.

We read a new book.
Bunny Cakes
We learned about cause and effect.
Max knocked the table, and things fell down.

We went to reading groups.
In Mrs. V.'s group, we are learning to make the th sound.
You have to make a funny face to make the th sound.

It is the th smile.

We have new sentences.
It is on my _____.

We went to lunch.
We had chicken nuggets and bbq.
It was good.
We didn't have milk.
There was no milk in the school.
We didn't have anything to drink.

We drank water when we got back to class.

We learned about pets.
We wrote about pets.
We did writing.

Mrs. Sherrie came to read to us.
She gave us a new book.
Llama, Llama, Red Pajama

We learned about the calendar in math.
We have a new year.
We are going to make a calendar.
We worked in Math centers.

We went to P.E..
We don't go outside on P.E. days.

We worked in centers.
We had a great day!
Everyone earned CATS!