This week we had our annual Transportation Fair. The children were able to see four vehicles; animal control, GRTC bus, fire truck, and police car. The people discussed their careers with the children and emphasized the importance of education to achieve career goals. For math this week we focused on plus 2 and review. The children played this spin game and recorded the information in their math journals. The children's timeline projects are my favorite! I love seeing the children when they were younger. They did a great job presenting their projects. The children had so much to be thankful for in this writing activity! Once again, CrestFest was a lot of fun! Thank you to everyone that supported the Fall treat! As you can see, the children really enjoyed it! Congratulations to our new student of the month! A special thank you to our guest reader who chose reading to our class as a reward!
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With Thanksgiving right around the corner, we focused on Native American literature this week . The children seemed to enjoy the stories and learned a lot about the Native American culture. These are four of the stories we read: The children continued to work with writing the beginning, middle, and end of a stories using various graphic organizers. They also practiced verbally retelling the story using a Kagan strategy. I saw a lot of growth with their writing this week! On Thursday, the children got to have a little fun with their writing. After learning about Native Americans from long ago, they tried writing using symbols instead of words to tell a story. During math we have been working on plus and minus one. The children played a partner game where they rolled a dice took away 1 and put a counter on the board. The first to complete a row won! We reviewed plus and minus one on Thursday. The children used playing cards and a plus/minus dice to create and solve number sentences and recorded the equations in their math journal. Ms. Haga is a volunteer from a church partnership that comes every two weeks to volunteer in our class. The children read books from their independent book boxes with her for some extra practice. Our class will be participating in the December CrestFest! Mr. Lacy learned that our class was working on kindness with our classroom tree. Later he discovered we have been doing top secret kindness missions throughout the school. Here is an example of a pack of happy notes we delivered secretly to "kindness bomb" another class. The children even came up with our code name! We will have our big reveal at CrestFest. :)
Our Kindness Tree is growing! Please continue to send in any acts of kindness. It would be nice to reach 100 before our winter break. We will continue our work with addition and subtraction until close to winter break. This week we focused on plus one and using different number strategies. The children will learn how to use strategies such as counting on/back, mental math, using manipulatives, and number lines. The unit will cover plus 1, 2, 3 as well as, minus 1, 2, and 3. The children will also learn their doubles facts. They really enjoyed playing this partner plus one game. The children practiced using a number line to solve problems with this Promethean board activity. Mr. Lacy came and did a lesson with the children on different careers. On Friday we honored veterans. In the morning the entire school gathered and recognized veterans through music. It was a special moment for us all. When we got back to class, the children watched a short video about Veteran's Day and then wrote about how they honor veterans. A special thank you to our November Mystery Reader! We enjoyed the visit.
On Monday I read the children a book called Popcorn which was actually a story I read as a child. After discussing the story elements, I gave the children popcorn and they brainstormed describing words using their five senses. We finished our unit on sun and earth relationships this week. I made a review game for the children to play prior to the test. They really enjoyed it! We also acted like scientists by doing a sink/float experiment. The children wrote predictions in their science journals for whether a pumpkin would sink or float and observed the results. Math Night was so much fun! Thank you to all the families that came. We have started a kindness mission in the classroom and we need your help. Some of you may have heard about it already because the children have been bringing notes about their acts of kindness. :) If your child does any kind act outside of school please write me a note about it so we can add a heart to our Kindness Tree. Our goal is to reach 100! With the upcoming election, I decided to spend a couple days reading relevant literature. One day we read Duck for President and we had a class election (Farmer Brown vs. Duck). Duck won! Then the children wrote letters to Duck. CrestFest was a success! You should have your child tell you about the pictures. Congratulations to those recognized at Crestfest!
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Mrs. StearnsWelcome! This is my fourth year at Crestwood and my 15th year of teaching. I love the families at Crestwood! I received my undergraduate degree from Longwood University and later received my Master's degree in Curriculum and Instruction with an emphasis in ESL. I am married and have a five-year-old daughter. I also have two dogs and one cat. When I am not teaching you will find me camping, reading, or going fun places with the family. Archives
June 2017
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