February

February has been a busy month with Valentine's Day and the 100th Day of School.

In math we have been done a variety of activities to help students understand the concept that the teen numbers are ten plus some more.  We played a Teen Frame spinner game and created teen paper chains.  Students also learned about the addition sign and equal sign.  We have played a variety of games to practice addition.

During Writer's Workshop we wrapped up our Small Moment stories.  Each student chose one book to revise and fancy up for their portfolios.  Now we are writing how-to books.

During Reader's Workshop readers have been practicing reading their snap word cards.  They all seem proud to have their own box of words they can read.  We have also revisited Stretchy Snake and have been practicing sounding out words with short vowel sounds.  So far we have practice a, o, and i.

Our theme has been winter.  Students made melted snowman out of shaving cream and glue and wrote about how they melted.  This are hanging on the bulletin board outside of our classroom.  Be sure to take a look the next time you are at Rowe.

Happy 100th Day of School

Today was the one hundredth of school.  We started the day with a community meeting where we counted one hundred students, sang 1-0-0, and counted how much money we have raised for the Rowe School playground.  Ms. Honan also read a book about the one hundredth day!

In our classroom we shared what we would eat 100 of, completed a 100 day puzzle, and made special crowns.  We also did the "100 Macarena" and 100 exercises.