A wonderful week! Gosh you know how to make someone feel appreciated!!!

Oh my goodness!  I feel so loved!  You all have spoiled me this week!  I am overwhelmed by your generosity.  This week has truly been a gift.

The cards were so touching.  I enjoyed listening to each one as they read them to me.  I got a little teary reading them.

On Wednesday as all our little darlings came in with scrapbook supplies I just giggled with happiness.  They were so excited to show me what they had brought.  I cannot wait to get started with all of my fun new goodies.  

My Thursday treat was so tasty!  It was even a sharing size so I had to share!  :)

On Friday we celebrated our summer birthdays with cookie cake and a fabulous gift for me!  Thank you all for my gift!  I used the face brush this weekend and it was amazing.  I got so choked up I shed a could of tears.  You all are the best!!!!

For math this week we worked on subtraction strategies.  Two of our days were spent counting our penny drive donations.  Our class raised $110.78!  Thank you all!!!

  

Our week this week was full of assessments!  We kept our regular routines but I spent our small group time assessing one on one.  I'm trying to get all our loose ends tied up before our last 9 days are over.  9 days.  I can't even believe it.  Where did this year go?!  We got our year books this week and we had a great time singing them.  

General Announcements:  

Next week we will be doing a special science unit with Mrs. Fitch. We will need some volunteers for a couple of the days.  If you able to help please click this link.  Four volunteers would be awesome!

http://www.signupgenius.com/go/8050F4CA5AA2CA02-science 

Happy Mother's Day!

Happy mother's day!  These kids worked so hard on their portraits of their mothers.  I was so proud of how they turned out.  We hope you enjoy your day!

We love our mamas!!!

Thank you!!!

Wow!  Do I feel appreciated!  I absolutely love my flowers!  The best part is that they are all so unique.  The made the most beautiful bouquets to brighten up our room!  What a wonderful treat.  We looked at our calendar today and added a countdown to the last day of school.  There were a few sad kiddos and I must admit I was right there with them.  Thank you again for the gorgeous flowers!  

First week of May fun!

We sure had a fun week!  Our routines are changing almost daily as we finish up our assessments and add in lots of fun end of the year activities.  Even though Monday was a "do what you want" day we did manage to squeeze in some learning too!  Here are our learning goals for the week:

Reading:  Noticing when you make a mistake and trying a strategy to correct it.  

Writing:  When writing an opinion piece you must think...decide... and explain!

Math:  Understanding subtraction 

Science:  Life cycle of a butterfly

We are also reading and loving Charlotte's Web!

We were all sad to miss our field trip, however we definitely made the best of the day!  So many kids told me it was the best day ever.  And I got more hugs on Monday than I have all year!  

Mr. Moody is one of our teacher's aides for our building.  He helps out a ton at recess and lunch.  He came to our class to share about when he was younger.  He was in the Navy on a ship that recovered astronauts from Apollo 16 and Apollo 17.  He had some amazing pictures!  We are all impressed with what he has done.  

Fun Show and Tell

We are watching the life cycle of caterpillars!  They started as tiny little caterpillars and now they are working on making their chrysalis!  We will release our beautiful butterflies when they come out.

Friday afternoon was Drop Everything and Read time.  We had a few of Mrs. Reinkemeyer's friends too!  We chose to use this time to buddy read and hear a story from Mr. Moody!  We loved having him back again.  

General Announcements:

• For the next few weeks, I will only be marking the checklist portion of the weekly checklist.  Unless there is a concern, I will not be writing comments. I  will make sure the report card comments are full of good information for you!  
• I do have more pictures of more kids but for some reason they aren't accessible quite yet!  I will do a separate picture post with more as soon as I can get it to work!  I'm sure there is a way but I'm not quite skilled enough to figure it out!