We are a bunch of "smarties"...

We did doodle loop writing. You use a picture to help you write the story. There were pictures of astronauts, mermaids, aliens, rocket ships, lions and sharks.

  "I wrote a story about a guy diving from the rocket ship but he was so scared that his friend had to push him off and his friend fell too" - Eddie

 "My story was about an astronaut who lived on freeze dried KD" - Ben 

"My story.. hmm.. was about a lion who escaped from the zoo so he could find another lion." - Duncan

We did Smartie math. We wanted to see how many Smarties are in the box and what colours they were. We sorted the colors and we made it into a graph. When we were finished, we got to EAT THE SMARTIES!!!!! (Duncan wanted 5 exclamation marks). We liked doing Smartie math! 

 "I liked doing Smartie math. I had lots of blue, yellow and green smarties." - Julia

"I liked doing smartie math" - Brendon

"This morning during our Friday Funnies we watched a dog that ran into a leaf pile to find a ball and it took him two tries to get the ball. It was super funny." - Dylan

We had a great week!

Love,

Room 25

Highlights of the Week

Student Highlights of the Week:
"We started home reading today. You have a book to go home with and you read it at home" - Eddie
"Today we went outside and it was windy so we had to go inside" - Duncan
"We made math people and put them up on the bulletin board" - Julia (see picture below)
"We did Daily 5 this week. We "read to self" for 9 minutes. We are building our stamina" - Marisa
"We traced our hands and put them on the bulletin board because "we reach for the stars" - Gaby (see picture below)
"We started our jobs for the week. My job was feeding the fish in the afternoons" - Raeann
"There was a game on the smart board for the math centers" - Dylan (see picture below)

A sneak peek into our classroom:

 This is the adding dice center.

 This is the Number of the Day center. 

 This is the smart board center.

This is the patterning center. 

This is the Race to 100 game. 

This is the Bump game. 

This is the numbers about us bulletin board. 

This is our "Reach for the Stars" bulletin board and art project we did this week!

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Have a great weekend!

Teacher Update:
It was a very busy week in our classroom this week. We got a lot done and shared a lot of laughs. I think one of my personal highlights was seeing the excitement of the students going math center to math center - the joy in their eyes filled my heart and reminds me why I am doing this job.

The word of the week was STAMINA! We are working on building up our stamina during read to self and daily 5. We are already up to 9 minutes and the kids are begging me to try 10. I love seeing the enthusiasm and watching them set goals for themselves.

It has been an amazing week! Hope you enjoyed the students updates!

Ms. Moffatt

New Blog Additions

Check out the shelfari on our blog! We update it every week with the different books we have read in our classroom. Feel free to ask your kids about some of these books!

Also, we've added a map so we can see where all of our visitors are from! The kids are really enjoying checking where our visitors live!

Thanks for continuing to check out our blog!

Happy Sunday!
Ms. Moffatt

It's Friday!

Friday Class Blogging Session:

"We had a wonderful friday. My favorite part was recess." - Duncan
"It was a really fun week. My favorite part was friday funnies." - Gaby
"We had a great first week of school!" - Julia
"We made a graph about how we are feeling on the smart board." - Brendon
"We ran a lot in gym. We played zap" - Ben and Dylan
"My imaginary summer vacation was about going fishing and catching a big fish" - Marisa (We wrote stories about our imaginary summer vacation!" 

Friday funnies are funny videos that make you laugh. We watch friday funnies every friday! This is the video we watched today.

We used the smart board a lot this week for math. We have fun everyday with the smart board. Here is a picture of Eddie working on the graph.

It was a great week in room 25!

What a day!

Whew! What a first day! It was a very exciting and busy day in room 25. We only had a few minutes at the end of the day to quickly write a message (which I will put below).

We did lots of get to know you games including a name game (I was "Mighty Ms.Moffatt" - ask your child about his or her silly name we came up with, we played a game with the question ball, we read a couple "back to school" stories, we had a class scavenger hunt, we shared about our holidays and probably the highlight of the day, we had GYM in the BIG GYM!

We also brainstormed what a perfect classroom would look like. Here is our chart paper from the brainstorming session!

All in all, it was a great first day! Enjoy the weekend!

Class Blogging Session: 

We had a great first day of school.

"I had a good day at school today" - Gaby
"I really like school!" - Nathan
"The best part of today was gym" - Duncan
"I liked the scavenger hunt!" - Marisa
"I liked the word search" - Dylan
"We had fun at school" - Billy

Love Room 25

One more day...

Day one of conferences is complete and we are ready to start day two. It's always great to be able to meet parents and kids before the school year and discuss some of the important things that are going to be happening in the classroom - like this blog!

Tomorrow is going to be a busy day - we are going to have a classroom scavenger hunt, play a get-to-know-you game with toilet paper, read a poem about being back at school, discuss what the perfect classroom would look like, write our first blog and more! 

Hope everyone gets lots of sleep tonight because tomorrow is going to be a busy day for my superstars!