Rock Stars!

We had our big end of year show today! My little cupcakes are all grown up and ready for first grade!! They shared their writing and our video yearbook with their families this morning. They also put on a super performance! Check it out below.

The Life Cycle of a Butterfly Part 1

We have been learning about living things in science. Our new school has a new courtyard full of milkweed plants and this month we have seen a ton of butterflies and caterpillars roaming around. We have two of the caterpillars in our classroom and are making observations daily about the life cycle of a Monarch butterfly. The cupcakes are super excited to check out how "Cupcake" and "Sprinkles" are doing every morning. Here is a clip of what happened last week...

FCAT Ready!

That time of year is here again.....FCAT season. Although my cupcakes are too young to take the FCAT, they feel some of the school changes that occur. Our daily schedule changes and we must remain extra quiet all day. Richey intermediate teachers and kiddos have worked really hard all year to get ready for this test. Our technology specialist Mr. Walker and the intermediate grades put together a fabulous video to get pumped up for the test! My cupcakes made a cameo appearance in it too! Check it our below...

Shoe La La! We can use descriptive words!

My cupcakes have been working very hard in writing and accepted a writing CHALLENGE! We decided that we were ready to use descriptive words in our writing. The cupcakes learned that descriptive words help the reader understand their writing and visualize about the topic.

I began the lesson by reading the book, Shoe-la-la! by Karen Beaumont. This is one of my VERY favorite books, and I am sure you can guess why! Then, we learned more about descriptive words and writing with a SMARTBoard lesson I created. The cupcakes tried to guess what shoes I was writing about based on my words. They learned that if I didn't use descriptive words, they were not able to guess what shoe I wrote about. Next, came the fun part. We decorated our own shoes! The next day, we wrote about our shoes making sure to use descriptive words, and making sure to use our "3 Star Sentence" rubrics.

 In order to see if we really knew how to use descriptive words in writing, we invited Mr. Miesner, Mrs. Claud, Mrs. Lough, and some of the first grade teachers to help us out. They had to listen as we read our writing out-loud. Then, they had to look on our shoe wall and try to identify the shoe we described. The cupcakes had a lot of fun trying to challenge the adults! But guess what?? All of the cupcakes used enough descriptive words and everyone's shoe was identified correctly on the first try! I have a very talented group of Kinderwriters! As a reward, they all got a super cool mechanical pencil. They also had a blast sharing their writing news with Miss Cabral on FaceTime that Friday.

  

  

                                                                                

Fun at the Zoo!

We had a great time at The Lowry Park Zoo on Friday! The weather was a little chilly, but we warmed right up with excitement when we saw all of the animals. Thank you to all of our parent volunteers who helped make the day run smoothly! Now we are totally ready to write our animal research reports! We will publishing them digitally with iPads. I will try to get the reports on the web if it is possible.

This is exactly what happened to me as soon as I got home! haha 

Congratulations to the new Mrs. Thompson!

This weekend, Mrs. Dapcic, Mrs. Loiacono, Mrs. Melton, and Ms. Mathews were at Miss Pazourek's wedding! She was a beautiful bride. Congratulations to the new Mrs. Thompson! We love you!

The Wedding of Q and U!

We had a very special event in our class on Valentine's Day! The Q and the U got married! We learned that the letter Q does not make a sound on her own, and decided that she needed to marry her friend U so they could stay together forever and make the "Qu" sound in words. Below is a little clip of the festivities.