Last Friday's Ice CreamFUN


 Our new Friend Ella

Ella with Mia and her 4th Grade Book Buddy Kristi!
Welcome to Ella, her 4th grade brother and family from Virginia Beach!

This Friday's PUMPKIN FUN

Our CLASS pumpkin

Today we had a pumpkin filled day!  Ms. Woodard had a family member donate small pumpkins to EVERYONE in our classroom! How FUN...We completed our pumpkin observation booklet based on one big class pumpkin!  Please use it to guide you through observations of your small pumpkin at home! ENJOY

I read The Bumpy Little Pumpkin

It was FILLED with "sparkle" words! And then it was time to OBSERVE!  

We, first made some predictions on the height (in unifix cubes), number of ribs the circumference and if our pumpkin would sink or float and of course how many seeds would be in our pumpkin! THEN it was time for putting those predictions to the TEST!

The books we read during our day.

SPARKLE WORDS describe our pumpkin!

Predictions: height and #of ribs

Circumference

Sink or Float

How many seeds

OUR LAST OBSERVATION 

COUNTING SEEDS!!!

 Ms. Woodard read How Many Seeds In a Pumpkin

Did you know that the number of "ribs" on a pumpkin gives us a "clue" as to how many seeds it will have! WOW

We each got our very own pumpkin to bring home and observe! 

THANK YOU

TOP DOG 

Emily has been a great Top  Dog. I can count on her to be a role model for others!

Today she brought in some of her "old friends"...Ellie and Giraffee...Emily told us she has a "bunch more" at home. It must be a ZOO in Emily's room!

TOP DOG

Yesterday Emily brought in If You Give a Pig a Pancake! She even had the MAIN character here at school with her! 

Thanks for sharing such a FUN book Emily!

E -Entertaining

(You always make us laugh)

M -Marvelous

(Work hard at all you do)

I -Inspiring

(You make us better people!)

L -Lovable

(You care about others)

Y -YOU!

(the BEST daughter ever!)

I hate, hate, hate that I have had to be out so much the past couple of weeks.  Thank you so much for all of your concern for my mom. She is doing well and is  hoping that tomorrow after her doctor appointment she will be able to be more independent.  

• Spelling Test on Friday (all 10 reg. spelling words, 2 surprise bonus words,  a dictation sentence and 5 challenge words)

0 mistakes on EVERYTHING (excluding challenge words)

Check plus plus SUPER STAR SPELLER

1-3 spelling errors (excluding challenge words)

Check plus STAR SPELLER

4+ spelling errors (excluding challenge words)

Check minus BETTER LUCK NEXT TIME

• Math Unit 3 due Friday

Have a wonderful evening! 

Homework

Oct. 24-28,  2011

Investigations Activity Book: Unit 3 pg. 1, 5, 11, 14,43  DUE Friday, October 28, 2011

TOP DOG

Emily!

Coach B. is going to camp with the 5th graders this week...so Emily had a GREAT TOP DOG day today...Lunch with her family and telling all about her poster!

FUN FRIDAY

What a GREAT day we had today. This morning we had a wonderful writer's workshop and then onto finishing up Daily 5 MUST Do's from the week!  And then we had a special surprise...we flip flopped our day and did science this morning!  EXPERIMENT DAY!  Let's see what happens when we put some milk, sugar and vanilla in a bag. We all noticed it was a liquid.  Then we put that bag in a bigger bag with some rock salt and ice!  

Many predicted the liquid would freeze! So we took these bags outside....and we shook them for about 10 minutes (or like 40 hours as some said)! Guess what our prediction was RIGHT that liquid did turn to a semi solid.  THEN we got to TASTE it...YUMMMO ICE CREAM! 

(I have videos of a lot of what we did today however, it is my night with my mom so I'm going to post some pictures and get going! I will work on videos later!)

Anna and Demi look as if they are having fun!  Anna said her hands were about to turn PURPLE!

SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE Kent!

YUMMO time to TASTE for Emily and Paeton!

Thatcher and Logan wanted MORE!

ICE CREAM
I promised I would post the recipe:
Each "serving" will need:

• 1/2 cup of milk (we used whole)
• 1 tsp of sugar
• 1/4 tsp of vanilla
• 6 cups of ice
• 1 cup of Rock Salt
• 2 quart size ziplock baggies
• 2 gallon size ziplock baggies (can be replaced with large coffee cans)
• spoons

In one of the small baggies measure out the milk, vanilla and sugar. SEAL the baggie.  Put it into the other small baggie and seal!

In the large baggie put the rock salt and ice and the small baggies.  Seal the baggie. Put it into the other large baggie and seal! SHAKE SHAKE SHAKE for about 10 minutes.  Check to see if the liquid has changed to a solid. If so...ENJOY...if not seal everything up and keep shaking! 

TOP DOG

Kreston has been a wonderful TOP DOG!  We were especially lucky to have his grandmother, all the way from Michigan, here to read to us during his special week! 

On Tuesday Kreston brought in his book...

I wasn't here but it looks as if he was enjoying reading to the class! Way to go BUDDY!

Thursday we read his poem: 

K is for his kindness

                 which fills all of his days

R is for respect

                  for all his chivalrous ways

E is for his excellence

                  Kreston is a great boy, and a great brother, and a great son,

                   And one day, Kreston will be an excellent man

S is for his smile

                   because he always thinks he can

T is for the trickster

                    which gives him so much glee

O is for outgoing

                     for he never dwells on "me"

N is for his noise

                     for he truly is all boy!

Mom and Dad love you Kreston! You are amazing!

Friday was a BIG day!

Kreston had his mom come and eat with him! 

She even brought a HOT DOG from Sonic! MMMMMmmm we all know Kreston likes hot dogs! 

And then Kreston shared some of his "freinds" with us!  Thanks for letting us get to know you a little better Kreston!

FALL FESTIVAL SILENT AUCTION BASKETS Hello Fellow Parents: Robertson Elementary Fall Festival is right around the corner.  Please mark your calendar for Friday, November 4th from 5:00pm to 8:00pm.  We are asking that each student please contribute $5.00 to donate towards the awesome baskets we will have at our Silent Auction during the Fall Festival.  Each grade level will have various themes for boys, girls and adults. We need to strive for 100% participation.  Your donations are greatly appreciated and PTA is working very hard behind the scenes to make this Fall Festival the best ever!!!   Please send in your child’s $5.00 donation in an envelope marked attention “Misti Lloyd Fall Festival" by October 28th.     Again, thank you for your support and we hope to see you on November 4th!   Thank you all so much,   Misti Lloyd & Alison Blankenship Ms. Guy/Ms. Woodard’s Room Parents  

HOMEWORK

Investigations Activity Book: Unit 8: Pages: 14, 21, 25,36,44 Due Friday, Oct. 21!

Miss Guy

Unfortunately, my mom will be having surgery tomorrow and I have to be out!

TOP DOG

Kreston is our TOP DOG this week!  What a coincidence...His Grandmother, who used to be a 1st grade teacher  is visiting from Michigan as well!! SOO... we were lucky enough to have her come in  and read an OLD FAVORITE...The Kissing Hand by Audrey Penn

Not sure why these came out this color BUT since it is RED RIBBON WEEK...and everyone is in red!  I'm going with it! 

Thank you Mrs. Wells for coming in and reading to us! We all enjoyed hearing one of our favorites! 

Kreston is telling us all about what he and his family like to do...Did you know Kreston really likes Hot Dogs?

Hippest in the House

Congratulations to our Hippest in the House recipients...

Sam and Jackson have a lot of INTEGRITY!

A BUSY BUSY Week 


I am going to try and catch up on some blogging...it's been a busy week around here!
No School Monday of course but I met with most of you though! I want to thank you for coming up! I really enjoy getting to know all of you and talking about your special little ones! I am so lucky to have such a sweet sweet bunch of kids.
Tuesday...morning was busy busy...the fifth graders performed some COOL KID songs and SKITS.
After school...SWEET Emily invited me to watch her and her Diamond Sox softball team!  

A SWING and a HIT

Ready to RUN the bases...

Emily was all business on First Base
If anyone else has after school activities I can come watch...PLEASE send in a schedule! 


WEDNESDAY

Wednesday was another BUSY BUSY DAY...we had Istation Assessment, Book Fair and Eat Lunch with a Loved One BEFORE we left for SAFETY TOWN!


Frisco Safety Town Fun

Create your own photo album

The video is almost 5 minutes long!!! ENJOY...I can't wait to see these little pups driving in about 10 YEARS! 

Thursday

Today we had some magnet fun!  

(Tune “Did You Ever See a Lassie?”)
Did you ever see a magnet,
a magnet, a magnet?
Did you ever see a magnet
Pull this way and that?
On iron and steel,
Its pull is unreal!
Did you ever see a magnet
Pull this way and that?
Did you ever see a magnet,
a magnet, a magnet?
Did you ever see a magnet
Pull this way and that?
A magnet has action,
It’s called an attraction!
Did you ever see a magnet
Pull this way and that?
Did you ever see a magnet,
a magnet, a magnet?
Did you ever see a magnet
Pull this way and that?

Are those magnets "attracted to WOOD"?

Look closely and you will see the magnet on the BACK of  Logan's hand!

Landon what a TRICK! LOOK no hands!

A magnetic ATTRACTION MESS!

A BUSY BUSY WEEK CONTINUED...

TOP DOG

Jacob has been our Top Dog this week...another AMAZING role model!

On Tuesday, Jacob shared his all about me poster!

Wednesday, we were not in the classroom long enough to do much of anything...but Jacob has enjoyed being our line leader and lunch room helper all week!

Today was EXTRA special for Jacob.  Not only did mom bring SONIC for lunch, we read his special home poem and one of his favorite books: Skippy Jon Jones!

Jacob is lucky...he gets to see his mom everyday (or almost everyday) at school!  However, it is a SPECIAL day when they get to have LUNCH together!  Look at those smiles! 

Jacob with his book and his SPECIAL poem!  (and that big smile) 

THANK YOU THANK YOU FOR...

BOOK FAIR BOOKS

Our classroom library just got a bit better!  You all are amazing! Thank you so much for adding new books to our classroom library! AND...I received a few more after I took the picture! 

So...thank you Kennedi (Cam Jansen, A Hippo Ate the Teacher, Silly Milly, Flat Stanley, and Grumpy Cat), Bella (Dolphin Tale), Landon (Green Wilma Frog in Space, Miss Child Has Gone Wild, and Houdini Was...), Addison (We're Going on a Lion Hunt), Emily (Kickers and Hungry Book Club), and Paeton W. (Camilla the Cupcake Fairy)...I cannot wait to read these and add them to our library!

Don't forget tomorrow is SPELLING TEST, BANK, BOOK BUDDIES, ROUND UP and MATH HOMEWORK IS DUE!  Show your school spirit...Wear a Robertson Shirt or our Class shirt!

Homework

Oct. 12-14, 2011

1. Investigations Activity Book: Unit 8 pg. 5,10,15,17  DUE Friday, October 14, 2011

I will post more tomorrow...after our day at Frisco Safety Town!  Let's hope the rain goes away so we can go out and PLAY!!!

Thank you!

Thank you so much for all of your support today at conferences! I enjoy discussing all of your child's successes!

FIELD TRIP

Field trip to Safety Town is on WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12th! We will leave at 11:20ish.  If you are coming with us you may follow the bus or meet us there!

BOOK FAIR

The book fair is OPEN for BUSINESS!  Our eat lunch with a loved one is on WEDNESDAY, OCT. 12.  Please be here at 10:20 .  You will attend the book fair during recess time. Lunch time is 10:50 and it is very important that your child be in there ready to eat so we can leave at 11:20!

TOP DOG

Taylor brought in a couple of her "friends" today for show and tell!  

Thanks, Taylor for being such a GREAT TOP DOG and good role model!

PARENT TEACHER CONFERENCES

Don't forget conferences are on Monday!  Like I said yesterday we had hoped to have flash drives and student led conferences ready...BUT it just didn't happen.  We will definitely be ready in the spring!  SO...kids do not need to be present on Monday...If you have no other option they are welcome to come! Thank you in advance  for your patience...We hope to stay right on schedule!  

ENJOY YOUR WEEKEND...We are having a "Pinterest" Party tonight! 

TOP DOG

Today Taylor's lovely family came and had a YUMMY lunch with her! 

Yesterday, Taylor's parents shared the following and Taylor illustrated for us! 

My Sweet Taylor

You brighten our day with your beautiful smile and funny laugh.  

Your sweet spirit melts our hearts. 

Having you around has made our family complete.

We are so proud of how SMART and TALENTED you have become.

As you continue to grow mom and dad want you to know...

We love you and you ALWAYS will be our  

Sweet Taylor!

Language Arts
We are working on expanding our sentences.
The boy jumped.
The boy jumped high.
The boy jumped high into the clouds.
The wild boy jumped high into the clouds with bouncy shoes on his feet.

I will be looking for some AMAZING sentences to share with everyone!

Math
We play a guess my temperature game during math time!  Well, this week I thought it would be fun to turn it into more of a  20 questions kind of game.  And it was amazing to see them apply what they KNOW!!! I love this job...Today I told them the number was BETWEEN 50 and 90.  They immediately said, "it can't be 50 or 90 then." So I turned those numbers over.  The first question was is it even or odd.  I started turning over 51, 53, and heard, "IT'S EVEN!".  The next question was does it have 7 tens...(WOW, I was so impressed) I turned over 82 and 62 and everyone shouted, "It's in the 70s." So, we only had 70, 72, 74, 76, and 78 left...the question asked was, "Does it have MORE than 4 ONES?" (IMPRESSIVE) I turned over 74 and immediately they knew it DID have more than 4 ones...Honestly, I can't remember the last question that was asked...I was having so much fun listening to the learning going on! BUT we did get to the correct answer of 78!  

It is just so much fun teaching this wonderful group of PUPPIES!
I'm looking forward to talking with you all on Monday about the wonderful successes your child has had so far.
We had hoped to have flash drives ready to go by conferences but...there are some SERIOUS set up processes with some of the drives you all sent in! SOOO....with that being said they will NOT be ready on Monday! :(  

The 31st Day of School

WOW! We are on a ROLL.  Two days this week and TWO days of FANTASTIC puppy behavior! Ms. Woodard and I can see so much learning going on and lots and lots of smiles while we learn!!! 

HOMEWORK

Tonight a Investigations workbook will be coming home.  This will come back to school on Friday with HOMEWORK completed!  Homework for this week will be Investigations Activity Book: Unit 7 pg. 1,2,4,6,10,12,13.  This is due Friday, October 7, 2011.  Please help your little one take care of his/her workbook. This is the only one he/she will receive.  

Language Arts

This week we are reading First Grade Here I Come of course there TONS of connections to be made and it is a PERFECT story for retelling.  Henry the mouse takes us through his day at school.  We will be connecting this story with s.s. and creating our very OWN picture schedule.  

Our poem this week as we work on adding DETAILS  to our writing:

Fall

Fall is here.

Another year

is coming to an end.

Fall is piles of crunchy leaves

orange, gold, and red.

Fall is football,

Fall is pumpkins,

Fall is where summer ends.

Math

What an amazing day during the math block today! The afternoon FLEW by because there was so much great learning going on!!!  

We are extending our learning...not only are we working on our doubles but did you know we are also working on DIVISION! We noticed that if we make two equal groups out of our 12 months we have 6 in each group!!! AND...if we make two equal groups out of the days of the week we have ONE left over...Kind of like Doubles + 1...

Then we read Pigs will be Pigs Fun with Math and Money! The pig family is hungry...but they've already "raided" the refrigerator and there is nothing left!!! Father pig only has a dollar in his wallet.  So we had a friend come up with a dollar. But that certainly was NOT enough to buy them all something to eat.  So...they all start a HUNT FOR MONEY! Mr. Pig found a 2 dollar bill with his socks. That makes 3.  Mrs. Pig found two nickels, (Logan told us he would just get a dime instead) 5 pennies and 1 quarter. We started counting the dollars then the coins. We started with the quarter, looked on our 100's chart and quickly added the dime and then 5 more!  WOW!!! Meanwhile the piglets found 6 shiny dimes, a dollar bill and 200 pennies!!! How much do we have now?  (We continued to act this story out.) In the end we had 34.67.  BUT the pigs each bought the daily special which cost 7.99.  We rounded this up to 8.00 and found out their dinner bill was almost 32.00.  We paid our bill and had some left OVER!!! WOW...lots of mixed money counting!  Once we had 100 cents we knew we could trade that in for a dollar bill!  Be sure to try some of this with your little one!  We then went to math stations and as I listened in to problem solving today I was impressed at the explanations of how they knew 47, 43, 38 was ordered from Greatest to Least.  Almost everyone talked about looking in the 10's place and then the 1's place.  

I saw puppies building numbers trading ones for sets of tens and then counting the left overs. (All on their own!)

TOP DOG

Taylor is our TOP DOG this week!  She is a hard worker and very good listener!  Taylor is a great role model of what all TOP DOG's should be like! 

 On Monday, Taylor told us all about herself.  Can you guess her favorite colors?  She also likes the Disney Channel, McDonald's chicken nuggets, soccer and basketball! Not to mention she is FABULOUS!

 Today, Taylor brought in one of her favorite Barbie books!  She told me it was a tough decision...Barbie or Green Eggs and Ham!

Taylor was excellent at showing the pictures!!! Maybe a future FIRST grade teacher! 

Here's a sampling of her story! Thanks for sharing Taylor!

FUN FRIDAY

It seems crazy to me that when we come back on Monday it will be OCTOBER all ready! I love FALL but it seems like it is such a busy time of the year! I am LOVING this class and team teaching with Ms. Woodard.  I think all of the kids benefit from each others strengths as well as two teachers.  With that being said...I want everyone to know I HATE missing school...but over the next few months I will have to be out several days.  My mom will be having surgery and will need my help throughout the recovery process! However, your child's school life will not/should not be disrupted.  We are lucky that Ms. Woodard will be here!

Don't  forget Monday is Library Day!  Please HELP your child remember to bring it in on Monday.  We will not be going to the library as a group (due to Presidential Address AND preparations for BOOK FAIR) however, we would like to get into the routine of having the books here on MONDAY.  


Friday, like most days, is BUSY, BUSY.  We start our morning making sure we have completed all of our "MUST DO's" in literacy stations.  Friday is a day to catch up for those that may have missed something important!  For those that are finished with everything they get to go to the literacy stations of their CHOICE and participate in the activities that they most enjoy.  
And then it's SPELLING TEST time....I wanted to explain the "grading"...if a child misses NO words and completes the dictation sentence with no errors then they get a check plus plus (SUPER STAR SPELLER), if  all words in the list are spelled correctly but there are some errors in the sentence it is a check plus (SUPER SPELLER), if a (1 now with only 5 words)word  is missed in  the list then it is a check. (Good Job), and if 2 or more are missed in the list then it is a check minus. (Good Try)!  We are all striving to be SUPER SPELLERS!    Spelling homework suggestions are on the first grade website...Castle Spell A-Lot.  These are not required and do not need to be turned into me.  You may practice anyway your child enjoys! Example...if you have a little puppy with LOTS of energy I found this suggestion: Put a letter for each word on a post it, post them on a wall in random order (of course), tell your puppy that you are going to play a GAME...you will call out a word and he/she needs to find the letters on the wall and put them in order to spell the word on the WINDOW, DOOR or TABLE, as soon as they have that word spelled correctly you will call out another.  Set a timer...See if they can beat their best time! If you have other fun HOMEWORK ideas please share with us!!! Making it interactive is much more fun than just drilling! :)

First Grade has started something new at lunch! Instead of just quiet eating time we have started reading during that time.  The whole school is looking for creative ways to add reading time to our day!  I am lucky enough to be on lunch duty this week and get to read! (something I LOVE LOVE LOVE to do...well read children's books at least and out loud to first graders) We started this on Thursday...Friday was AMAZING...as I walked around the cafeteria to raised hands...thinking I was going to be opening milks, yogurts, answering questions like...can I go to the bathroom, get a drink...or hearing statements such as...I need a spoon, he's/she's bothering me or I don't like...BUT NO I heard, "when is it going to be quiet time, when are you going to read to us, and can we start quiet time EARLY?"  Looks like reading during lunch time will stick around!

Our afternoon goes by SOOO quickly.  We do some calendar, make sure we get in some informal assessment of the week and before we know it our 4th grade buddies are knocking at our door!  After spending time working on reading and writing with them we get to have Fun Friday.  This is a time for our puppies to really work on social interaction with their peers, we work on taking turns,  real life problem solving, listening and speaking to each other.  And then it's time to PACK UP!

Coins
Counting Coins
This website will allow your child to practice counting like coins as well as mixed coins!
Enjoy!

TOP DOG
I just realized I didn't post Sam's special poem from home!

Dear Sam,

There are so very many ways in which we could describe what an amazing son, brother and friend you are.  We decided we could do so best by using the letters of your name...

S - S is for your super silly sense of humor. You keep us smiling with your funny ways.

A - A is for your always awesome attitude.  You try your best each and every day.

M - M is for your marvelous, miraculous mind.  You blow us away with the things you do and say.

U - U is for the uniqueness that makes you who you are.  We sure do love the qualities that you display.

E - E is for your endless, enthusiastic energy.  You work so hard at both school and play.

L - L is for the love you give us and that we have for you.  May it always surround you, this is what we pray.

Love, 

Mom and Dad

Sam was a wonderful Top Dog. Thanks to his family for helping make it a wonderful week! 

I hope everyone enjoys this BEAUTIFUL weather and their weekend!