Mrs. Davis's Class

I'm moving...

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As you know, Mrs. Davis doesn't live in Decatur. So, it's with a

that I tell you I'm packing my

and moving to a different school - one that is very close to home. So, I won't have to drive an hour to school, but I will dearly miss my BC family!! I will definitely keep tabs on you kiddos, so keep up your hard work in 3rd grade!

I wanted to give you the website to my new classroom (even though it's blank right now) so you can keep in touch with me, also!

Good luck in 3rd grade and stay in touch!

www.davis3rd.blogspot.com

179 down,

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1 to go!!

This is what you'll see when the kiddos are set free on day 180!!

Ice Cream Fun Sundae (oops....I mean Friday)

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Botanical Gardens Field Trip

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We started off our day with the torch!! (It's a reward for getting caught walking nicely in the halls by our principal!) Good job, kiddos!

We're waiting to start our tour of the Botanical Gardens and the Bug Exhibit.

Here's a picture of the dragonfly that was in the middle of the water.

Look @ the huge ant!!! And the gigantic spider web! We learned that spider webs like this one (that look perfect) are usually woven by spiders that are harmless. It's the messy, dangling spider webs that are usually home to the really dangerous spiders...you learn something new every day! We did decide that we would stay away from ALL spiders, regardless of how pretty their webs are!
Faith & Ashley
Titauna in the "ant hill"
Dorien jumping like a grasshopper
The butterfly landed on Faith's hand!
Jalen's looking at ?something?
Kianna and Branelle are reading about the turtles in the pond.
Ashley in from of the big dragonfly planter
Branelle & Jasmin on the "ant hill"
Tomas, Ashley, & Jalen listening very intently
Our class in front of the big ant with our guide, Ms. Mary Lee

David running in the sunflower field

Jewel & Faith

Some of us on the rainbow

Some of us as Goldilocks and the Three Bears

Digging for fossils

Playing in the fog rocks

Here we are on the giant chairs

Worn OUT on the way home!!!!

The Water Cycle

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This week, we've learned about the water cycle.

(I'm not an artist, so forgive my drawing!!)

Here's our Water Cycle wheel. Hopefully, your child came home tonight and explained to you the water cycle. I hope you heard words like precipitation, condensation, and evaporation!
Here's a picture of another water "cycle." Please ask your child to explain the process! That's been part of our homework this week - to explain the water cycle to someone at your house!!

The countdown is on!!!!!!

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Cesar Chavez

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Our story this week, Cesar Chavez, is about a Mexican American farm worker and civil rights activist.

These will be your last spelling and vocabulary lists of 2nd grade. This is the last story in our Imagine It! book, so during the last week of school, we will be learning about a couple of other cool things!

Next week, we'll be learning about the water cycle, and we'll be reviewing addition and subtratction with regrouping (we need to know this backwards and forwards so we're ready for 3rd grade). We will have math homework 2-3 nights next week.

BUT...This will be your last week of HOMEWORK!!!!!!!!! YEA, right!?!?!!?

Don't forget to sign and return permission forms for our Botanical Gardens trip Wednesday. Please return forms by Monday or Tuesday!!!! Wear your yellow school shirts Wednesday!!

Workshop

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We have Workshop time during our reading block each day, and it's the kids' favorite time of the day. They wait on 10:15 all morning! We just wanted to share a few pictures of what we do during Workshop to let you have a look at another part of our day at school. Ask your child to tell you about what we do during Workshop. Ask what his or her favorite Workshop station is - I promise you'll hear either listening station or computer station!

(Israel & Maribel-these pics were taken before last week - I promise I've made David keep the mask on!)

3, 2, 1, Blastoff

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This afternoon, at 1:01, we watched the space shuttle Atlantis launch from Cape Canaveral. We learned that the astronauts are on an 11 day mission to fix the Hubble telescope (which has been out there since 1990 - did you know it had been there that long?!!).

Before takeoff, the kids wanted to know why we were watching this. I told them that this was something that just didn't happen too often and it was an amazing thing to watch. After the shuttle took off and they watched it "fire up", and we could see Earth behind it, they were amazed! You should have heard the "oohs" and "aahs!"

GET WELL SOON!

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David, we hope you feel better! We miss you!

Graduated

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In honor of one of this week's vocabulary words, here is a picture of Mrs. Davis and her brother, Matt, who graduated from Faulkner University last Saturday.

May 4-8

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Field Day '09

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It's time!!

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We've been working towards this week all year long @ BC! We've done so much to get ready: read our nightly passage, recorded and listened to ourselves read, read to our teachers countless times, worked on fluency, decoding, retelling, etc.

Now, it's time for...

Below is a link to the DIBELS website - you can see benchmarks (goals) for this year and the upcoming years.

ORF - Oral Reading Fluency (how many words read per minute with fluency and prosody (expression)

RTF - Retell Fluency (how well your child can comprehend and tell about what they've read)

**The goal is to be in the low risk category in each section (ex: 2nd grade, end of year ORF: 90 and above).

https://dibels.uoregon.edu/benchmark.php#3grade2

April 27-May 1

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Notice that each spelling word has a silent letter!!

Soils (a.ka. - Dirt!)

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Today, we joined Mrs. K. Smith's class to begin our new ASMTI unit - Soils. (Mrs. Davis has to go back to AMSTI this summer so she can be trained to teach Soils.)

We used a magnifying glass to look at three different kinds of soils: sand, humus, and clay. We talked about the characteristics we noticed about each soil and wrote about them in our science journal. We even taped a little of each on our pages so we won't forget what they look like.

After we studied the different kinds of soils, we made two boxes with layered soil almost exactly alike. Guess what the different in the two boxes is?

WORMS!!!!!!

Our homework tonight was to put something in a ziploc bag that we think we can use to feed the worms in our box.

Stay tuned to find out why we needed a box with worms and a box without! We just cannot imagine what we're going to do with those worms!

April 20-24

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We're starting a new unit this week:

We'll be reading:
Study these words every night!

Hats Off!! (& Money)

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Friday was Hat Day @ BC. We had originally planned Hat Day for the Friday after all testing was OVER, but since we were out of school that Friday, we bumped it to the next week.

Hats Off to Great Test Takers! They still deserve a hand!

We've been working on money this week. I was pleased to see how many of us are already pretty good at recognizing coin values and counting money. We're going to keep practicing next week to be sure we're money experts!

Please keep using the "money bag" we sent home last week to practice counting coins. That baggie is for you to keep at home for homework help and practice! Thanks for your help!

Money, Money, Money, Money!!

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We're working with money and I need your help! Please work with your child this week on homework and give him/her a handful of coins to count whenever you can. We need to be VERY good at counting $ by the time we go to 3rd grade.

(And that's only 31 days + 1 summer vacation away!! WooHoo!!)

Just a few Easter pics I thought you kiddos might like to see...

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Me & Coach Davis

Me & my brother, Matt
My Parents

Win

April 13-17

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Happy Easter

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Here's our egg dyeing station.

Choosing our color...

Eggs drying...

Fun Thursday Easter Egg Hunt

Happy Easter from our class!!

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Can ya tell testing is OVER!?!?!

I am so proud of these kiddos!! They have worked so hard these past few weeks preparing for the SATs, and when it came time for the real thing, they kept right on working hard. Each and every one of them tried their best on each and every question! Thanks, boys and girls, for being such great test-takers!!

2 to Go

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We're ready to get the last two days of testing behind us!

Our pencils are sharp - don't forget to get a good night's sleep and eat a good breakfast so your minds are sharp, too!

SAT Pep Rally

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FYI: We will be testing Monday and Tuesday. We will not have a reading story or spelling test this week (again). I will be taking several grades from reading comprehension passages that we will work on Wednesday and Thursday. We'll be starting Brave As A Mountain Lion when we return after Easter.

Remember: No School Friday, April 10th!

Here we are @ the SAT Pep Rally! We sang a few songs and did a few cheers to keep up our motivation to do our best on the rest of the test!!

Testing Begins Tomorrow!!

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So I hope all you kiddos are snoozing by now (or at least heading that way)!!

Don't forget to eat a good breakfast on testing days!! I need your brains fed so you can be the best thinkers you can be!!!!

Wish List

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March 30-April 3

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During testing, we won't send home any written homework. We won't have a reading story or spelling test. We will have a spelling list that we work with at school, but the words are ones your child should already know - and we won't have a test on them.

We will, however, still have our weekly passage! DIBELS is just around the corner and we CANNOT slack off on reading our passages!

Don't forget - 90 is the magic number (in words per minute)!

We do ask that your child achieve more than 90 words per minute on the weekly passage because he or she should have lots of practice reading it.

(Just wanted to be sure you understood why the goal on the weekly passages is higher than 90 now.)

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We're having a little trouble counting money! If you have a few extra minutes at home during the next week, make sure your child can tell you the value of coins (penny, nickel, dime, quarter)! Also, be sure your child can count a handful of coins!

As we continue to prepare for the SATs, we're going to work on this at school, but your help at home would be appreciated!

We're also going to have a unit on money after testing, so help your child get ahead of the game!

Money due for

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t-shirts April 3rd.

T.G.I.F.

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We were so exhausted this afternoon

from doing this (test practice)
that we spent Fun Friday playing this (Uno).

You're probably wondering what we've been up to...

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We all had a wonderful, relaxing spring break and we've hit the ground running with test practice.

We've been preparing for the SATs!! We're looking at a lot of this

in this book. (We've become very familiar with Scoring High!)

We're reading this

We've been analyzing a lot of graphs lately, so we took a poll to determine the favorite ice cream flavor in our class. Vanilla won!
Note: 1 ice cream cone stands for 2 students - that means a 1/2 ice cream cone stands for 1 student (Sometimes those graphs can trick us!)

Sorry I've been such a blog slacker this week! I promise to do better!

Don't forget to round up old...

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PHONE BOOKS!!

We're putting old phone books to good use!
The school that recycles the most phone books by April 16th will win a cash prize.

The city of Decatur is also asking everyone to leave their old phone books in recycling bins for pickup on April 1st and April 8th.

http://www.waaytv.com/Global/story.asp?S=10025008&nav=menu635_1

Destination: America

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March 9-13

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Read Across America

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Monday was Read Across America in honor of Dr. Seuss' birthday. We read If I Ran the Zoo...

Then we wrote about what we would do if we ran the zoo! You'll get to see our writing in the hallway when you come for Parent/Teacher Conference Day.

We also read Green Eggs and Ham by Dr. Seuss and played a game called Pin the Egg on the Plate.

Happy Birthday, Dr. Seuss!!

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Look @ what I did this weekend!

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As you kiddos know, Mrs. Davis is finally finished with her school!! So, I talked my husband into shopping with me on Saturday. We found this toy @ TJMaxx and came home to put it together. It's a Formula One car made of 455 legos!

Here we are just getting started...

And here we are today with the finished product:

America's Most Wanted AllStars

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Mrs. Waldrep's (1st grade teacher @ BC) husband, Chris is in the running for a national award called America's Most Wanted AllStars.

This award is for first responders that have provided outstanding service for their community. Chris started the DEC (Drug Endangered Children) program for Lawrence County. The program is to provide children who are in dangerous situations (where drugs are involved) with additional services such as medical and mental health services, representation in court, as well as new clothes and other necessities throughout the rest of their childhood. He also provides substance abuse education at local church services, schools and community organizations.

What a wonderful thing that Mr. Waldrep has done, right?!?! You can help him win this award by voting once per day! Use the link on the right side of our blog to vote.

March 2-6

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Scarf Day

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Harlem Globetrotters

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Today, Hollywood Brown from the Harlem Globetrotters visited us @ school!

Here's Coach Rooks and Hollywood doing a little dance routine with the basketball.

Hollywood did some REALLY cool tricks with the basketball!

Jalen got picked to be Hollywood's "helper." Jalen got to try some of the tricks himself. It was way harder than it looked when Hollywood did it!

Today's Art Class

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Today in art we learned about Faith Ringgold, a famous African American writer and artist. She's famous for combining painting, quilted fabric, and storytelling.

Here we are making our "quilts."

Answer the Call!

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Student Council is collecting phone books for The City of Decatur Recylcing Department. Send your unwanted phone books by April 15th.

(The class with the most phone books wins a popsicle party!)

HEY, KIDDOS!!! CHECK THIS OUT DURING WORKSHOP!

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Alabama Severe Weather Awareness Week
Ms. Davis, our principal, forwarded these websites to us so we could learn more about Severe Weather Awareness Week in our state.
Take a few of your workshop minutes to look @ these websites. You might learn something that could help you and your family during a severe weather event!!

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/bmx/aware/swaw_2009/index2.php

http://www.nws.noaa.gov/om/brochures/ttl.pdf

http://www.srh.noaa.gov/hun/preparedness/brochures/tornadosafety_updated.pdf

3rd Grade Violin Performance

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Today we were invited to attend a 3rd grade violin performance. We attended Mrs. C. Smith’s class performance so Eduardo could watch his big brother, Jesus, play the violin. Here’s Jesus playing below:

The 3rd grade violin program has been in place in Decatur for 10 years! It’s conducted by the Huntsville Symphony Orchestra. Each 3rd grade class receives 10 violin lessons; then they perform for their families and other students.
The 3rd graders impressed us by knowing the names to the parts of the violin, as well as the cords (?). They really knew a lot about the violin!! We think we might be able to remember some it for next year!

I know our faces look very confused in these pictures!! I think we were very overwhelmed! GREAT JOB, 3rd graders!! We can’t wait for our turn in 3rd grade!

February 23-27 - Introduction to Courage Unit

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Sorry for the blurriness!!

Check out our camo!

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CAN YOU SEE ME NOW?

February 17-20

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We're wrapping up our Look Again unit with I See Animals Hiding. Don't forget to wear your camouflage Friday!

Happy Valentine's Day from 2nd grade!

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Today, we built mobiles...

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Don't forget - we had to balance them and that was not as easy as it sounds!

..and we partied!

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I have never seen kids so appreciate of their Valentines. I wish you'd heard the gasps and the "Oh, thank yous!" flying around the room! It was so sweet!

Look at what we're doing today...

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We're still balancing and weighing. Today, we used equal arm balances to weigh and compare objects. We ordered the objects from the least to the greatest weight, and we weighed objects by comparing them to snap cubes.

We had to record our data in our science journals, as all good scientists do!

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Don't forget to bring your $1 for our Valentine's Day party by Wednesday, the 11th!!

February 9-13

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Finding Nemo for Fun Friday

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Does Nemo use camouflage? What about his friends?

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Since we've been learning about sea creatures that use camouflage, Finding Nemo (the movie) has come up many times in our conversations this week. So, we 2nd grade teachers decided to make a learning opportunity of our weekly Fun Friday event - we're watching Finding Nemo. However, we're not simply watching, we're searching for sea creatures that use camouflage!! We think we might even see some of the animals we've been reading about in How to Find an Octopus and Other Sea Creatures.

Balancing & Weighing

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This week we started our AMSTI Balancing and Weighing unit.

Yesterday, we tried to balance butterflies on a pencil. It was pretty hard to do and then we added a giant paper clip to one of the butterfly's wings. That made it really hard to balance.

Look at Kelsey balance that butterfly!!

Ashley's working on it...

Once we got our butterfly balanced, we drew a picture

of what it looked like in our Science journals.Today, we used a beam balance and a fulcrum (new word for us!). We used different amounts of cubes on each end of our beam balance. It was even harder than the butterfly!! We got really frustrated, but Mrs. Davis was really proud of us because even though it was hard, we kept trying. We have some very self-motivated students in our class!

Here we are working. We finally figured out that we had to move the fulcrum,
not the cubes, to make the beam balance.
Can you see the look of surprise on Petey's face?

Can you see Nadia's perfectly balanced beam?

Groundhog Day

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Today was Groundhog Day and Punxsutawney Phil saw his shadow once again - 6 more weeks of winter!

February 2-6

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Don't forget to check out the Book of the Week.

Can you find the hidden animals in the sea?

This week, we'll be reading

We'll be looking at sea creatures that use camouflage. We are having so much fun learning about animals that use camouflage. We've been peaking looks at this story for 2 weeks now - we can't wait to read it!

Dancin' Fun Friday

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You should've seen some of the moves in that gym!!

Math Night

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was so much fun!!

We taught our families how to play an addition with regrouping game with a deck of cards and a game mat. I think they were impressed!
We even got to take home our cards, the game mat, and an Expo marker!! We were really excited about that (probably more about the Expo than anything else - we love to write with those things)!

Here's David with the M&M's he won for getting the closest estimate for the M&M jar. Way to go, David!

Thursday @ 6

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Today, we're turning over the....

100!!!

January 26-30

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Fun Friday with Puzzles

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If you find any pictures of animals that use camouflage, bring them for our Concept/Question board (see below)!! I want you to add to our board...

Look Again - January 20-23

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Our new unit - Look Again - is about animals that use camouflage. I'm really excited about this unit - I think it's my new favorite!! Please help your child find pictures of animals that use camo or artifacts that have to do with camo (to add to our concept/question board).
Spelling and Vocabulary Words

Our story this week is Animal Camouflage.

We've been 'around the town'...

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We finished up our "Around the Town" unit this week by talking about neighborhood maps. Here are some of our finished products of the maps we drew from our home to our school.

January 12-16

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Spelling and Vocabulary

RIF Book Give-away

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Can you guess what Santa brought Mrs. Davis?

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Wednesday @ BC...

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...is going to be very busy! We're heading to City Hall @ 9. We'll return in time to eat lunch and begin our Christmas party (12:30-1:15)!

Thursday...we're getting ready for 2nd semester. We'll be watching a movie (Prancer) and cleaning up our classroom to prepare for January 7th!

During the holiday break...your homework is to READ, READ, READ!! Read books, read the newspaper, read the cereal box or a recipe, read our blog. I'm sending home a few old passages, also...it's very important to continue reading over the break...
2nd graders are expected to read 90 words per minute during the 2nd semester of 2nd grade! Not to mention, reading is a REALLY FUN way to learn while we're out of school for a couple of week.

December 15-18

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We have a very busy week ahead...We'll be reading Out and About at City Hall, which leads us on a quick little field trip Wednesday morning - we're going to visit the mayor of Decatur @ City Hall (as long as the buses and the weather cooperate)!! After lunch Wednesday, we'll be having our Christmas party (12:30-1:15). Thursday, we're watching Prancer and going to art!! Friday, YOU GET TO SLEEP LATE!!!
We will work with our spelling and vocabulary at school, but we will not have tests on them this week. We will have a passage to read nightly!!

Merry Christmas!!

Merry Christmas

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We will be having a Christmas party from 12:30-1:15 on Wednesday, the 17th. I sent home a note to see if anyone was willing to send anything to the party. Just let me know by tomorrow or Monday so I'll know what else we need. Thanks!

Winter Wonderland

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IT'S SNOWING (at my house)!!! This is not a real picture of what it looks like, but the ground and the trees really are covered! Will we be snowed in tomorrow?!?!

I apologize for not blogging much recently - my camera WILL NOT work at all now, so I can't take any pictures. I promise I've begged Santa for a new one, so hopefully he'll deliver! Just wanted you to know I haven't forgotten, or even gotten too busy...

December 8-12

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Jalapeno Bagels
Spelling List: dry, tie, fight, why, tow, soap, below, bike, cone, oak, July, twilight, shallow, cocoa, thigh
Vocabulary List: jalapeno, culture, international, ingredients, dough

** Sorry I don't have a picture this week. Hope Santa brings me that new camera!!

December 1-5

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Our story this week is In the Money. (I'm sorry the picture is sideways. I don't know what's going on!) This is an expository text - it's about real people, places, and things.

See the Lookybook @ the bottom of the page - it relates to this week's story.)

Concept / Question Board - Students are encouraged to bring in items for our "Around the Town" board. They can bring in articles, pictures, and items that have anything to do with our community. We already have pictures of places in our communitym, as well as "cars" and "homes" on our pretend street.

Spelling & Vocabulary

Is that a reindeer?

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No, it's our Win! He was not too happy about wearing the reindeer ears!

Here's Coach Davis trying to get Win to look @ the camera!

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas...

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in our classroom.

We put our Christmas tree up Friday so we'll be ready for Christmas when we get back from our week off!

Math Journals

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Here we are working hard in our Math Journals last week.

Thanksgiving Lunch @ BC

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More Pie in the Face

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Pie In the Face Results

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Okay...I've tried to get my camera to come on since Friday night, but I'm still having no luck! Don't worry: new camera is on my Christmas list! So, I'm giving you a hodge-podged post here so you can see what we did at school last Friday.

Hope everyone is having a great Thanksgiving week!

Ms. Davis received the most money in her coin drive jar, so she had to take a
in the face! She put on her scientist goggles and pulled her hair back and took that pie in the face like a champ! I think the kids thought she was going to get really upset if she got the pie in her HAIR!! You did a great job, Ms. Davis!
Coach Rooks ended up getting a pie in his face, too, so the kids got the best of both worlds!

Our Field Trip to Sci-Quest

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We went to Sci-Quest yesterday and had SO MUCH FUN! We washed clothes, cooked lunch, played in a tree house, and played music on a life-size piano in the Children's Playhouse. We also played with the burping machine (I know, yuck!), tried to build a water dam, played virtual soccer, experienced an earthquake, and so much more!! We had a really good time - many of us said we were going home to ask our parents if we could come back sometime!

Sci-Quest continued...

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After we'd played in the playhouse and explored in the science shop, we went to see experiments performed by the Science Chef, with our help, of course. We learned many cool experiments that we can try with household items - WITH AN ADULTS HELP!!

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Coming soon to a blog near you...

Sci-Quest field trip picture show!

November 17-21 - Red Light, Green Light, Mama and Me

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Vocabulary Words: practice, public, recognize, automatically, perched

Spelling Words: pie, night, fly, pile, child, right, shy, lie, mice, try, recognize, skyscraper, style, knight, mighty

Awards Day

2008-11-15T16:14:00.004-06:00

Yesterday was Awards Day @ BC. Certificates were awarded for All A's, A's & B's, and Perfect Attendance. Here's our class after we received our awards. Congratulations, kiddos!

This one's for you, Tomas!

2008-11-15T16:10:00.002-06:00

Yesterday, instead of our a Friday Squiggle, each student had a blank sheet of paper to draw on. Tomas made me a crown with his paper - very creative! Then, he gave it to me and wanted to take a picture.
Thanks, Tomas! It's very sweet that you think Mrs. Davis is "queen of our classroom."

2008-11-15T15:10:00.005-06:00

Check out our Book of the Week at the bottom of the page. I'll change the book weekly. You can click on the little "eyes" for a larger image...read this book with your family!

2008-11-13T04:48:00.002-06:00

Don't forget to bring in any leaves you want to add to our leaf collection. Hint: Fun Friday will be all about leaves!!

Can you guess what kind of leaf this is?

No School Tuesday!

2008-11-09T17:32:00.001-06:00

Happy Veteran's Day!

No school Tuesday in honor of our United States Veterans!

November 10-14 - Tell Me, Tree

2008-11-08T10:22:00.003-06:00

2008-11-08T10:06:00.003-06:00

Last week, we read Birdhouse for Rent, so we decorated a birdhouse to put outside our window at school. Sorry, the pictures are backwards again....not sure what Mrs. Davis is doing wrong!

Our Field Trip to the Princess Theater to see The Paper Bag Players

2008-11-08T09:32:00.003-06:00

Sorry the pictures are out of order...

Here we are in the theater, waiting on the show to start.

Here we are waiting on the buses to arrive to take us...

Our bus ride to the Princess Theater...

Wear your yellow shirt!!

2008-11-05T16:28:00.001-06:00

I forgot to remind you to wear your yellow shirt for our trip to the Princess Theater tomorrow! Don't forget to bring your permission slip if you haven't already!

Election Day @ BC

2008-11-04T14:08:00.002-06:00

Here we are waiting in line to vote...

Here's Tomas in the voting booth.

Jalen just voted!

Here's Keevin coming out of the voting booth...

Here's our class after we voted. We love giving our input into Election 2008.

Compare and Contrast

2008-11-03T14:21:00.002-06:00

We've been using Venn diagrams to compare and contrast. Today, we read a passage abour alligators and crocodiles and then compared and contrasted the two. I told the kids that part of their homework tonight was to think about how apples and oranges are alike and different. They might need your help to jump start their thinking! They are going to make their own Venn diagram very soon to compare apples and oranges.