Look What’s Happening in Room 102!

I’d like to introduce the newest member to our classroom. His name is Jake and he is a chocolate lab. We will take turns taking him home and playing with him. He will come home in a bag with a “Martha Speaks” story and an information book about dogs. Who knows [...]

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Where the Wild Things movie has been out for a few weeks now. Many of us saw the movie and give it a “thumbs up” review. We were busy in class last term with making our own wild things and describing them. I found this site that I would like to share [...]

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Do you watch PBS Kids? This is a public television channel that has lots of great shows for kids. It is a great channel for all my students to tune into to help them with their English. One new addition to their programming is Martha Speaks. I fell in love with [...]

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We had a fun “Halloween” day at school on Friday. Everyone was dressed in very creative costumes. Here is a picture of the delicious cake sent in by Hunter’s family and of everyone in their costume. The cake was delicious.

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Our class has been reading Folk Tales. One of our first ones was Little Red Hen. We learned about storyboard and made one together. We used it a few times to retell Little Red Hen. We also made our own picture story maps. Check out our work and our voicethread. [...]

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Practicing your math facts can be fun if you use some online games. Try this site Arcademic Skill Builders to practice your facts. It’s like an arcade game.

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We have been reading Maurice Sendak’s classic story “Where the Wild Things Are” in class. We have enough books so that each student can have a copy in front to them. On Wednesday afternoons our 4th grade Reading Buddies come to our class. Last week we read the story together and then [...]

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La Ferme Deschenes from Mary Ellen Lynch on Vimeo.
Watch our movie and listen to the children explain what we saw and did on the farm. Thanks to Sonia for teaching us about the farm animals. A special thank you goes to the parents who came with us and braved the cold weather. [...]

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Today we counted the seeds from the small pumpkin – while our pumpkin soup was cooking in the crock pot. Yum! Well, first we made some estimates. We knew there were less seeds in the small pumpkin than the medium and large pumpkin by looking at the bags. Some estimates we [...]

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We had a fun math class today counting pumpkin seeds. Yesterday we opened up 3 pumpkins – a large one, a medium sized one and a small one. We stuck our hands in and pulled out all the seeds. We put the seeds into 3 bags. I took them home, cleaned [...]

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