The JBD cupcake!

Thank you so much Mrs. Brady for taking a picture of the adorable JBD cupcake from spirit night at Just Cupcakes.  Don't forget we have another spirit night at Just Cupcakes this Friday.  Thank you for supporting our school- spirit nights are important because the money we earn goes directly to purchasing new techonology for our school (including our class smartboard).

Reading Strategies

We are now working really hard to use our reading strategies while we practice reading.  We are working on our first four reading strategies:
1.  Tap each word that you read
2.  Check the picture
3.  Get your mouth ready and sound out the word
4.  Ask:  Does it make sense? or What would make sense?

Please reinforce these strategies with your child at home when they are reading to you.  Thanks!

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners

Science Lab

We will have our first Science Lab the first week in February.  Please contact our room mothers if you would like to volunteer.  We need 6-8 volunteers.  Thanks!

Creative Writing

During our Daily Five session each day, one of the choices the students can make it "Work on Writing". For this choice students use the dry erase boards to write words, sentences, and draw pictures to match. I thought these creative pictures by one of my students were so cute!

Kelso's Choices Quiz Show!

Today during our guidance lesson, we had a quiz show on Kelso's choices.  The kiddos loved to use the buzzers to answer the questions on solutions to big problems and small problems.  Thanks Ms. Booth for a great interactive lesson on making good choices!

Our SCA Representative

Today we had a visit from our fifth grade SCA representative.  Our class loves to get updates on different events in our school.  Today we learned about wacky hair day- which will be on January 29th (please no wigs).  School water bottles can also be purchased for $3.00- order forms will go home on January 14th.

Thanks for the visit!

Today our class was visited by Debbie Thomas from the Virginia Beach Education Foundation.  She brought two other guests to see how our class uses bookflix.  The grant which I was awarded in November paid for a subscription to bookflix.  Thank you for visiting us!

Playing "Nim" with Mrs. Law

Today we learned to play the game "Nim" with a partner during our whole group gifted lesson.  We also practiced different strategies and creative ways to play tic-tac-toe.  Thanks Mrs. Law for a great lesson!

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners

Reading Rockets: Reading Tips for Parents of Kindergartners