Star of the Week--Gustavo!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Gustavo,is

our Star of the Week the week of November 28th-Dec.2nd.

Here are a few of  Gustavo's favorite things:

Color: red

Friend: Dennis

Toy: T-rex

Animal: cheetahs 

Number: 100

Thing to do: play Legos

Food: cheese sticks

Gustavo is a wonderful friend!
He likes to learn about new things
and read with his friends.
Gustavo is a great problem solver too! 
We have enjoyed getting to know more
about our special friend. 

Making Inferences

What is an inference?

Inferring is when a reader uses what they already know
and the clues from a text or the world around them
to help them figure our what the author is saying.

We did just that this week in Reader's Workshop.
We begin by using Mrs. Shelby's bag to practice our inferring skills.

We used different pictures of animals to make inferences
about what we see and think.
We wrote our thoughts on sticky notes.

What's in Mrs. Shelby's Bag?

The kids loved making inferences about

items from my bag and telling me why
they think those items are in my bag.

Money, Money, Money!

We are doing a little Financial Literacy in Math!

We are learning all about money!

We learned different facts and information about each coin.

Please review the different coins with your child. 

Allow them to sort real coins at home with you!

It's a great way to practice our coin identification skills. 

Thanksgiving Turkeys!

Look at these precious turkeys and silly writing we did today! 

Love how creative my little "turkeys" are! 

Happy Thanksgiving! 

Fun Run!!!

We had a blast at our Boosterthon FUN RUN!!!

Go Shelby's Stars! 

We love our Veterans!!!

We love our Veterans!

Happy Veteran's Day! 

Star of the Week---Jacob!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Jacob,is

our Star of the Week the week of November 14th-18th.

Here are a few of  Jacob's favorite things:

Color: blue

Friend: Gustavo

Toy: Nerf gun

Animal: cheetahs 

Stuffed animal: dog

Sport: soccer

Thing to do: practice baseball

Food: peanut butter and jelly sandwich

Jacob is such a leader in our classroom!
He follows directions so well and he makes 
great choices all day. 
He also loves to work in math stations
 and learn about new science things.
We have enjoyed getting to know more
about our special friend. 

Star of the Week--Aanya!

We are pleased to announce our friend, Aanya,is

our Star of the Week the week of November 7th-11th

Here are a few of Aanya's favorite things:

Color: pink

Friend: Sphurita

Subject: reading
Flower: rose
Movie: Frozen
Food: spaghetti
Bug: butterfly

Aanya is such a sweet friend!
She likes to write stories and
read with her friends.
We have enjoyed getting to know more
about our special friend. 

Pete the Cat and his 4 Groovy Buttons!

Today, we read Pete the Cat and His Four Groovy Buttons. The story is a subtraction story about Pete the Cat losing buttons from his coat. Each time one pops off, he sings a groovy song. We used a Pete the Cat work mat and real buttons today to act out the story. Each time one popped off, we took away a button. So fun!

I told the kiddos to take their mats home, act out the story, and sing the groovy song for you.

Fiction and Non-Fiction Texts

Also, we discussed different types of genres in Reader's Workshop.

We focused on two different types of texts:

-Fiction

-Non-fiction

We discussed how each genre has different features:

Fiction has:

 characters

settings

events

problems

solutions

It is a made-up story.

Illustrations

Non-fiction has:

Real photographs

These texts are about REAL things like:

-people

-places

-events

-animals and insects

The have Table of Contents and Glossaries.

We learn from these texts.

We gather new information from these books.

They list facts and have labels in the pictures.

We sorted books by fiction and non-fiction.

Voting!

Calling All Voters!

We loved voting for our favorite ice cream favor!

Addition Monsters!

For some Halloween fun, we made monsters! 

We read the story, Go Away Big Green Monster.

Then, added eyes by rolling a dice to get our two numbers.

We added those two numbers and wrote a number sentence.