Happy 2016!

It’s 2016 and it has been a great start. The kids are slowly getting back into the groove of routines. I traveled to California for the winter break and it was really nice. I felt refreshed for another semester of teaching. I hope everyone had a relaxing break also!

I've kind of been slacking with keeping up with the website so here's a little catching up!

Coming back, we warmed up our little brains by finding the sum of 10 and then adding on. We did lots of fun foldables in math that week.

 We also worked on expanded form and base 10 representations.

This week, we have been learning how to add/minus 10. 

We also started working on our Lunar New Year Performance. The performance will be on Feb. 11 and Feb. 12. The students are real excited about it. They’re doing really great during practice. I took Mrs. Skalaban’s kids up on stage on Friday to practice but haven’t had time to take my own homeroom. There’s just NEVER enough time during the school day.

 Dowser Dan came to visit Summitt on Thursday and he taught us how to conserve water. He also had songs teaching us where our water we use come from. Ask your child what they learned from Dowser Dan!

 Nothing makes a teacher happier than seeing all 18 of her students engaged and writing sentences in a different language in their journals! We worked on G and GH initial sounds. We also took our first sound check in VLA. Most of the kids did pretty well.  

In Mrs. Skalaban’s the students worked on writing their New Year’s Resolutions. Look at how cute their work are. My resolution is to drink more water, be in the best shape I’ve ever been by visiting the gym more, and to travel more!

Remember--We have a 3 day weekend!!! Woo-hoo!