Ornaments on Tree

Here's a close-up of some of our ornaments.  Click on the picture to take a closer look.

Gingerbread Garland

Each student decorated their own gingerbread boy/girl.  We connected them to make garland for our classroom tree.

Rudolph Candy Canes

Our Rudolph Candy Canes turned out really nice!

Christmas Ornaments

The 7th grade TAG students helped during our ornament making centers.

Happy Thanksgiving!

We created a tree full of things that we are thankful for written on the colorful leaves.

Turkey Talk

B.V. Naturalist, Katie, taught us how to strut around like a turkey protecting our territory.  :)

Flowers

This is what they looked like when we were done.

Spanish 1 Students Visit Our Classroom

Mrs. Smith's Spanish 1 class showed us how to make flowers using tissue paper and pipe cleaners.

More Mummy Fun

Michelle V. was a great sport as she was chosen to get wrapped up, too!

Mummy =)

They wrapped me up like a Mummy!

Halloween Party

We had a great classroom party!

Counting Pumpkin Seeds

We counted groups of 25 seeds and then grouped them to make 100.  Our grand total was 774 seeds!

Carving Our Pumpkin

We had fun taking turns cleaning out our pumpkin.

Firetruck Photo

Thank you firefighters for a fun ride!  =)

Firetruck Ride

We climbed all the way to the top for our ride around town.

Fire Safety Week

The Fonda & Newell Firefighters visited our school to teach us about fire safety.  We got to see their uniforms close up.

Guided Reading Centers

Students work in small groups to "spell" simple words with puzzles.

Guided Reading Centers

Students choose from several activities at the Guided Reading shelves.  Dyllan is "writing the room" on a fun clipboard activity.

Guided Reading Centers

Students work on the iTouch apps to practice reading focused skills.

Guided Reading Centers

This is the Teacher Table where I work with students in small groups according to their reading levels.

Guided Reading Centers

Students visit my wiki to choose from a list of educational websites that will help them practice reading skills.

Homecoming Parade

The theme this year was "Super Heroes".  We had fun dressing up with Superman capes.  We had a beautiful day for the parade!

Homecoming Party

We enjoyed oreo surprise cupcakes & juice boxes before the parade.

Pumpkin Patch Petting Zoo

Everyone loved getting to pet the animals.  The 4-H leaders and members were so kind and helpful.

Class Photo

We enjoyed a beautiful afternoon at the Alta 4-H Pumpkin Patch.  They let us pick a big pumpkin for our classroom.  Every student got to pick a mini-pumpkin to take home.  They also sent us back to school with homemade cookies, stickers, bookmarks, crayons, & coloring books.  We had an awesome trip!

Scarecrow

The pumpkin patch was decorated with fun 'Fall' characters.

Pumpkin Fun

We found the biggest pumpkin in the patch!

Hay Ride at the Pumpkin Patch

This was our ride out to the pumpkin patch.

Mustang Reader

Payton Crilly read a cute story about a boy who wanted his dog to talk.  The children really enjoyed this funny book.

Beautiful Butterfly

We loved this pretty blue butterfly.  The other side of the butterfly is brown.  We learned how that protects this kind of butterfly.

Painted Turtle

We were able to see a colorful turtle.

BV Naturalist Visits Our Classroom

Katie V.  read a story about why animals are certain colors.

Mustang Reader

Tom Devereaux read a story about show & tell to us.

Show & Tell

Luke brought "Bootsie" to show his friends.  

Football Reader

Nate Jesse read "If You Take A Mouse To School".   Everyone enjoyed this silly story!

Mustang Football Reader

Our Football Reader this week was my son, Brady!  The students had fun listening to "Froggy's First Sleepover".  They had a lot of questions about football for Brady.   =)

Technology in the Classroom

We are so fortunate to have our own computer cart this year!  In this photo, we are working with partners on some new websites.  However, we have enough computers for every student to use their own.  :)

Teamwork

The students had some fun with dominoes.  They planned out how to build them and loved the result!

Football Reader

Every Friday morning, a Mustang football player reads to our class.  Everyone enjoyed listening to Jake read about animals who love books.

1st Day of Kindergarten 2012-2013