Spring has Sprung

 

 

So happy my favorite season is finally here. Beautiful flowers, beautiful weather, and I can smell summer right around the corner. Sweet-sweet summer time.
 If I could describe Friday in one word, it would for sure be CRAZY. I was supposed to be out for training on Thursday but it got canceled since the presenter was ill so I ended up teaching the kids like a regular day. On Friday, it was one of those days when I tell the kids “I won’t be here, but I will be here” meaning – I will not be teaching you, but you will still see me around school because I will be doing something school related. From spring pictures, to dance practice, to robotics, to lunch, to recess, to token store….there was literally only one hour of math academic instruction time yesterday. The sub told me that the kids did a really good job transitioning so that was really good to hear.

The kids finally finished their cowboy writing in Mrs. Skalaban's. These turned out sooooo cute but I couldn't help but laugh at some of them (in my head, of course.) While in Mrs. Skalaban's class, they have been working on adding adjectices, vivid verbs, and action verbs within their writing. By doing this, it makes our writing interesting for our audience to read!

We practiced the dance 3 times this week and next week we will be practicing on Monday and Tuesday. Since we have an odd number of students participating, it looks like I’m going to have to dance with the class. Please don’t laugh at me during the night of the dance!! J I am literally learning the entire dance as I practice with the kids. Good thing I have been a fast learner. I will be passing out their tie-dye shirts that they are wearing for their dance on the day of the dance (March 25^th.)

 

 

Next week in math, we will be generating our own math problems when given a number sentence. For the past 2 weeks, we have practiced using a number line and pictures to solve word problems.

In science, we have been learning about parts of a plant and habitats of animals. We are going to be continuing with these two topics for the next week.

We have been using dry erase boards a lot lately when practicing our Vietnamese. I am so glad to see that most of my non-Vietnamese students are able to form sentences independently.In the writing samples below, can you guys guess which ones were written from a non-Vietnamese student? Even though they are producing written work, I am still trying to have them produce Vietnamese more orally.

We worked on the blends of -CH and -TR.
chim= bird
chó= dog
chén= bowl
trứng= egg
trăng= moon
trừ= subtract