Thursday, September 13

Uh-oh...Mr. Potato Head lost his ice cream treat...ask your child why he lost something instead of gaining. In Math, we worked in groups to apply what we've been learning about polygons. While students were independently working and playing games, I was able to pull some kiddos over for extra practice/help. They did a great job with this! In Reading, we worked with responding to our read aloud, Loser, played Boggle and one group I worked with invented a secret code! Xf ibe gvo! In Writing, we talked about writing with and without boundaries. We started an inquiry project in Science to help teach us the scientific process, safety and procedures.
Hopefully, see you tonight!
Mrs. L

Wednesday, September 12

Happy day! We are being very productive in all areas. In Math, we continued with geometry by classifying quadrangles by their attributes and reviewing polygons. We are headed for an assessment early next week. In Reading, we are continuing to look at nonfiction text as well as focusing on vocabulary and responding to different texts. In Writing, I'm sure you heard, that we have created our blogs. Visit kid blog.or/MrsLambrightsClass. There, students can update and comment on blogs. Feel free to peruse all student blogs. We also began guidance today which will continue every other week throughout the year.
Hopefully, see you tomorrow at curriculum night!
Mrs. Lambright

Monday, September 10

Today was a great day, as always! In Math, we continued our work on angles and measuring and identifying angles. We continued our work with non-fiction text during Reader's Workshop. In Writing, we had the laptops out and created our individual blogs. Visit kidblog.org/MrsLambrightsClass to access these blogs, however, nothing has been published yet. Check back at the end of the week to read their blogs. The day went quick but we seem to have gotten a lot accomplished!
Enjoy your evening,
Mrs. Lambright

TGIFriday, September 7

Thank goodness it's Friday! Today, we continued our geometry work with angles but introduced a protractor and learned how to use it to measure angles. We continued reading Loser by Jerry Spinelli in Read Aloud which focuses on compassion for a fellow student who isn't exactly like every other student. Love it! Reader's Workshop was a little crazy as kiddos were all doing different things trying to catch up from this week's workboard activities. We are going to begin writing our individual blogs next week so today we found some blogs written by kids and read them to get some ideas as to what blogs are and how they look. They then wrote ideas for their blogs and I can't wait to read them. We will begin writing them next week so be on the lookout for information about where you can find your child's blog. In Social Studies, students are creating their own island maps to show their knowledge of map skills. We used our foot or hand as a template for our island. We love taking off our shoes!
Have a glorious weekend! Go Bucks!
Heather Lambright

Thursday, September 6

I feel like today was actually a normal day! In Math, we continued our work with geometry using geoboards and yarn. In Reader's Workshop, we continued our work board work and some students had guided reading. We finished our Important Paragraphs in writing which you can check out at curriculum night next week. Finally, in Social Studies, we practiced and reviewed maps and map skills.
Have a great evening!
Mrs. L

Wednesday, September 5

Today was a very technological day. We spent a good portion of the day in the computer lab today. We first learned about the computers and how to use them appropriately and safely as well as set up our personal accounts. Each student has access to many things at home through HCSD. Their username is their ID number or lunch code. They set up their passwords today and should share them with you only. I will show you some things at Curriculum Night next week that they can do using these logins. The second portion of our computer lab time was spent typing up our important paragraphs. Students are quickly learning very good life skills with typing, editing, fonts, SAVING, etc. We also read a book, Everybody Needs a Rock and then went on a walk to get our own rocks. We then began to set a goal for the beginning of the year. All in all, a great day. By the way, I was a little premature with talking about Homeworkopoly yesterday--we didn't get to it but we did today!
Have a relaxing evening!
Mrs. L

Tuesday, September 4

What a soggy day! Needless to say, we had indoor recess today. :( In Math, we started with our first unit, geometry. It is really more of a refresher from last year although it didn't really seem that way today... We began Guided Reading groups today! We discussed why we read and talked about decoding and different strategies to use when we come to a word we don't know. Ask your kiddo about the Chunky Monkey! In Writer's Workshop, we went to the computer lab to type our Important Paragraphs. Some students need some extra practice with typing... We learned about globes and our world today but what you'll probably hear about most is that we played Homeworkopoly.
Have a great evening,
Heather Lambright