Great News!

I woke this morning to find out that our project through DonorsChoose.org was fully funded! Thanks to the generous donations of many people both in our community and throughout the country supported this project. We will soon have a puppet theater and puppet tree full of puppets for the student to use to act out plays they have written themselves!
I am beyond excited!
Keep visiting for new pictures and updates - I will put a video up of one of the shows...

November Fun

I hope you enjoy some pictures of our class... We had a Readers Theater performance, a classroom that suddenly was filled with turkeys in disguise and a celebration of alphabet soup and letter crackers for filling our "I Can" can with all the words our class can read!

We had a great fall and are looking forward to an exciting winter season!
Visit the full slideshow along the right side margin of the blog...

Some Great Sites to Help You Help Your Students

I wanted to share some great sites with you  - I will be sharing how you might use them with your children during our conferences later in the week. 

This first site is great for you to find books that are just right for your child. Put the title of a book in the Wizard to find that book and more by that author. Put the title of a text you know your child enjoys into the Book Alike box and slide the reading level slide to harder or easier or leave in the middle for text that is just right...

Scholastic Book Wizard & Book Alike Site

This next site is great if your child needs handwriting practice, reversal correction practice, & number writing practice. This is also great to help your child practice writing their first and last names independently.

Handwriting and Number Practice

"The Peacemakers" - PTO Sponsored Assembly

Thanks to the PTO for sponsoring another wonderful assembly for our school. This was a real winner! Our students felt they were a part of the performance and it made us all think about how important it is to open our minds and hearts to everyone!

Daily 5 In Action

Word Work



Listening to stories on personal mp3 players

Reading partners

Word Work - One student is giving his friends a spelling test from the Word Wall

Small group listening center