Our last day of school before Christmas was Tuesday. We celebrated our last day with a Holiday Breakfast. We want to wish all our family and friends a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. Thanks to Philip’s Mom and Jack’s Mom for helping with our breakfast. And thanks to all the families who [...]
Entries from December 23, 2010
Holiday Activities
December 19, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
Last week we read some Gingerbread stories and were busy with some Holiday crafts. We got the idea to make our own version of the Gingerbread Man. We used a storyboard to plan our story and then assigned groups of students to go around the school to photograph our characters. We will be using: two [...]
Our Christmas Concert
December 16, 2010 · 11 Comments · Uncategorized
We had our Christmas Concert last night and it was wonderful. Grade One did an awesome job singing and they all looked beautiful! The three first grades sang together. Somehow I didn’t record our first song but we sang for some elderly ladies at school today and I recorded the first song at school. Listen [...]
The Edublog Award Results
December 16, 2010 · 2 Comments · Uncategorized
The Edublog Award results are in. Click here to check out all the winners. Mrs. Yollis’ Class blog was a “first runner up”(second place). She has a grade 3 class in California and we follow her blog. Congratulations, Mrs. Yollis! You deserve it! She and Miss McGeady (Mrs. Morris now) do a lot of work [...]
Fun with the Gingerbread Man
December 11, 2010 · 9 Comments · Uncategorized
How do you celebrate the Christmas Holidays? At my house one thing I like to do is bake cookies. One of my favorite cookies is Gingerbread Men. I found this website to virtually decorate Gingerbread Men. I visited the Top 100 Classroom Blogs and found this on “2,4,6,8 Meet Me at the Garden Gate”. I [...]
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Top 100 Classroom Blogs
December 11, 2010 · 3 Comments · Uncategorized
I was very happy to hear that our blog was included in Alexis Brett’s blog post of the Top 100 Classroom Blogs. We are in the International Category. I am excited to see what blogs are on the list. Thanks, Alexis. Click here to see the list. Don’t forget to cast your vote for the [...]
Stations
December 8, 2010 · 12 Comments · Uncategorized
In Room 102 we do stations on Wednesday and Friday afternoons. We rotate through 5 different stations which change from time to time. Right now we have been doing a computer station, Read to Self station(or partner reading), Math Station, Listen to a Story Station, an ABC/ Phonics station/ or a read with Mrs. Lynch [...]
Edublog Award: We’re Nominated
December 5, 2010 · 10 Comments · Uncategorized
Our Class Blog “Look What’s Happening in Room 102″ has been nominated in the 2010 Edublog Awards. The voting is now open and ends on Tuesday, December 14th. Please vote! Only one vote per ip address is allowed to keep things honest. That means, you can only vote once per any one computer. There are [...]
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Author Study – Mo Willems
December 3, 2010 · 7 Comments · Uncategorized
Grade One started our first Author Study and we are doing Mo Willems. We love all his books and so we have collected lots of them. We will spend time reading and talking about the art work in each of Mo Willems books. We love the Pigeon books and how he uses speech balloons to [...]
