Wednesday, Jan 4th

Today's chapel was led by Mrs. Reincke.  She took us back to summer with a VBS themed chapel.  We had the drums and guitars rocking out to wake us up this morning.  We sang some of our favorite songs from this summer's VBS.  We were all given leis too!  What a great way to start our week back here at school!  Each child also got a flip flop keychain.

Today in math we used the base ten blocks to help us understand borrowing.  We learned about taking a stick away from the tens place and adding ten ones then to the ones place.  This is to get us ready to do 2 digit subtraction with borrowing.  

The children decorated envelopes for the schools auction while they ate their snacks.  How cute and creative the children were!

We had 4 friends bring in a new Christmas toy for show and tell today.  Check out these cool gifts!

In science we learned about describing matter.  We talked about the properties such as size, shape, color and how we can measure matter by its mass.  

We made a venn diagram of a pencil vs a marker.  They are both matter but how are they alike and how are they different?!

We ended our day by sharing our stories from yesterday about over break or what we got for Christmas.

We implemented a new system in class today to help up from talking out of turn and without raising out hands.  Each child got 5 cubes with the letters BLURT written on them.  Throughout the day, if they BLURTED they flip a letter over.  The goal is to have the word BLURT still on your cubes at the end of the day.  If they do not lose a BLURT cube, they earn a BLURT DESSERT.  Each day will be a different reward from candy, extra play time, sit with the teacher at lunch ect.  It is a great way for the children to become responsible for their voices and to remind them to raise their hands.  If they lose all 5 blurt cubes, they have to fill out a blurt alert sheet on why they blurted and how they can fix it.