November 10, 2012

This week we started learning our harder reading concepts, and I am truly impressed by how quickly they caught on.  This week we learned about double final consonants and adding -s to words to make a word plural.  They caught on and I was so happy to see how quickly they learned that concept!  Hopefully it will be that easy for the rest of the concepts.  :)  In math, we also learned how to add one to a number and adding 0 to a number.  We also got to make our November calendars this week.



On Tuesday, we had some fun since it was election day!  We learned all about the election, about Obama and Romney, and we read some books that told us what it takes to win the election.  It was so much fun to read the books and the kids were so intrigued by the books.  After we talked about Obama and Romney, we got to vote!  Everyone was in their own little "cubicle" and I gave them a piece of paper and they had to write "o" for Obama and "r" for Romney.  We counted up the votes to see who was the winner in our class.  Here are the final results (in my class anyway...):

We also played a game I like to call the "fly swatter game".  I write sight words on the board, and I split the class into two different teams.  Then one person from each team comes up to the board and I say a sentence leaving out a word that is on the board.  They have to figure out what word I left out and the first person to hit it with the fly swatter wins. They LOVE playing this game.

I can't believe how quickly the holiday season is coming up.  Only one more week of school until Thanksgiving break.  Then when we get back, we will only have 3 weeks until Christmas break!  That's not enough time for me to do all of the fun things that I want to do. 

It was great seeing you all for parent/teacher conference this past week.  Please don't hesitate to contact me with any questions.  I am such a lucky teacher!  Thank you for all that you do!