Visit with Dr. Dave and Dr. Kate

Dr. Dave and Dr. Kate came to visit us in November, along with their dog Jack. The kids were able to learn about the job of a veterinarian. They looked at x-rays, listened to Jack's heart, played dress up, and much more.

October

In the Month of October we were able to visit Walter's Pumpkin Patch. The kids really enjoyed going down the underground slide, jumping on a giant balloon, and swinging on the log swing. Mrs. Galvan and myself really enjoyed the log swing too. At one point I think we had all 26 kids and two teachers on it. What fun! Pictures to come, once I get them off my personal camera.


In our animal science unit, we made bird feeds. It was a mess, but it was fun. Afterwards we put our bird feeders infront of the school, for the birds to enjoy.

During the month of October we had many exciting things happen. The Moline and Howard Fire Departments gave us a presentation to discuss the importance of fire safety.

100th day of school

Okay, I know this is horrible. It is the 100th day of school, and I haven't posted since the beginning of school. Most of my pictures are on my personal camera, that is at home. But now we have a new classroom camera we received from Donors Choose Foundation. So I will give a recap of some activities in the coming blog posts.

AS FOR TODAY! HOORAY WE MADE IT, IT'S THE 100TH DAY!!!!!

It was a day filled with all things 100. Counting by 1's, 2's, 5's, and 10's to 100. We changed our tens chart to read 100 days. We also made a Fruit Loop necklace with 100 pieces of cereal. They were mostly all eaten up by Math time. So if you didn't see that come home, it was just too tempting to eat. Today, we also made journals with 100 words we know. The first 8 were this weeks spelling words, and the rest were sight words we have worked on this year. So many other things were accomplished today. I can't list them all, but I can tell you we had a GREAT day.

DOUBLE YIPPEE!!!!

Okay parents and students, you are not going to believe this. As soon as I posted the last message I went back onto my Donors Choose account and found that another project had been funded within minutes of me checking. This teacher is smiling from ear to ear :)

This project included two netbooks. Now that makes three that we will have for our class when you add the one we won earlier in the year. We plan on using the netbooks in a technology center. Once our wireless internet is set up in our class, we will be able to do whole group learning through our mimio interactive board, and then the students can go back to their seats and learn on the netbooks indepedently.

I am just pumped! What a great weekend. It all started when our Football boys won their game last night, and then this morning I find two projects funded! This teacher is having a great week!

YEA!!! YIPPEE!!! Another Grant is funded!

I'm so excited, school has barely begun and I already have had two grant projects funded for our class.

This time my grant was focused around math and money manipulatives. When our package arrives we should have numerous money games and magic money boards. We also will be able to get 25 books that reinforce this math standard.

Our primary donor to this project is FreeCreditReport.com. We also had two other donors. Patricia from Olathe, and an anonymous donor. I can not thank them enough. It is always so wonderful to add new materials to my class. It makes learning so interesting and exciting. It always seems to help the kids stay engaged in learning when we have something new. At least I know I am that way!

This is so cool, yes I said COOL! It's like Christmas, and I'm a kid again! I can't wait to open our package.

bird feeders

Save your toilet paper rolls and send them our way. In a couple of weeks we will be making bird feeders to go along with our animal science unit. This should be fun, maybe even a mess. But what is fun without a mess!

Thanks

Sonic - Limeades for learning

Sonic is running its Limeades for Learning campaign to fund classroom projects across the nation. All it takes is a vote, and you will be helping us in the campaign. Go to www.limeadesforlearning.com and click find a project, then select location, Kansas, district, and then West Elk. I'm rooting for all teachers that have projects in our district. But particularly the projects for netbooks.

Please help by spreading the word and have your family vote for us too. Oh yeah, you can vote daily. Wish us luck. Thanks!