Field Trip

Our field trip was a hit!  We learned a lot at the Oliver Kelly Farm about the jobs that people used to have on a farm.  The kids had some hands on experience helping with these chores.  The Berry Hill Farm was really fun.  It was cold so it was great that everyone was so well dressed!   Here are some pictures from our trip. 

This week we had the laptop cart on Friday.  Our school has purchased some really great apps for the ipads to use.  I am so excited to use these with the kids.  The first app that we did was the Super Why App.  This is a really good app for reading skills: Super Why App in itunes

 The other app that we used was a drawing app called Doodle Bug.  You can use any drawing app to do what we did.  I had the class use the drawing tools to practice writing their spelling and sight words. There are a lot of free drawing programs out there.

In math last week we began subtraction.  We are working on counting forward and backwards to subtract.  A number line is a very useful tool for this.  This week we will be working on subtraction number stories.  When you are in the car, have your child come up with a number story for you to solve or you model one for them.
Have a great week!

Visitors and Ipads!

We have had a very busy last two weeks.  Yuko Larson, our cultural liason came and did a monarch butterfly project with us.  We study insects in the spring so she thought it would be neat to write a letter to a school in Mexico where the butterflies migrate to.  Then in the spring when they migrate back we will get a letter from the school back.

We also had the chance to have Andrea Beer come to our classroom and share her rock collection.  She is an amazing lady with so many neat stories.  She has traveled around the world and has rocks from many parts of the world.  These past couple of weeks we have learned about rocks.  We are learning what is made out of rocks, where rocks come from, why rocks are important and looking at different types of rocks.  Keep a little box for special rocks that you find in your family.

Tuesday we will be going to the computer lab again.  We went last Tuesday and we went on raz-kids.com .  Our password is sfratera in case you forgot.  This is a great program that can be used at home.  Today we checked out the ipads in our classroom.  These are the apps that we used:  https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/abc-spelling-magic-short-vowel/id429301553?mt=8

We also used this app: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/phonics-vowels-short-vowels/id453633094?mt=8

They are both free!

If you have an ipad/iphone/tablet at home, what games are favorites of your family?