Friday, November 13, 2009

Six Dinner Sid

Six Dinner Sid is a book by Inga Moore. It is about a cat who lived on Aristotle Street who had 6 different owners who fed him 6 different dinners. When he got a bad cough, he was taken to the vet 6 times and given 6 spoonfuls of medicine. The vet found out it was the same cat and when the owners found out, they only fed him one dinner. So Sid deceided to move to another street. Since they knew about Sid, they didn't care that he had six dinners.
Vocabulary:
Perfect- everything that is exactly right
Suspicious- Something is not the way it should be
Gullible- easily tricked
Nasty- bad or very umpleasant
Damp- slightly wet
Versatile- able to change easily

Saturday, October 10, 2009

Matter

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We have been learning about Matter in science! During this experiment, the students put on their scientist hats, got their science journals and did an experiment. We learned that jello starts as a solid, turns into a liquid and then becomes a solid again. They made predictions in their journal as Ms. Thomson and I preformed the experiment. They really enjoyed this hands on and I think they have a better understanding of how things can change when they get to "see" it happen!

Tuesday, October 6, 2009

Literacy Parade/Carnival


Hello All!
We are quickly approaching the literacy parade, trick or treating in the hallways and the fall carnival. It is all on October 23rd. We will have fall centers following the parade in the morning. Parents are asked to observe and take pictures from the dining room. Children are to find a character from a book to dress up as. Please make sure the costumes are school appropriate. They are also going to need a change of clothes as we have PE that day for resource. If you are a volunteer, you are welcome to stay and help with centers. The children will rotate around centers in the morning and after lunch, we will go to a normal schedule.
Trick or Treating will be in the hallways beginning at 6pm that evening. Immediately following is the fall carnival! Make sure you set some time aside to visit this yearly tradition for us here at Chets! There will be games, prizes, food and lots of fun!

Friday, September 18, 2009

Thursday, September 17, 2009

Skills Block

We have been reviewing Kindergarten skills for the past 2 1/2 weeks of first grade. Please review these at home as well. We have been talking about blends, word families, sight words, vowels and text talk vocabulary. I give them a blend...for example "st" and have them come up with as many words as they can that have that blend. Or you could have them look in books for that blend!
Also, it is very important to build up your childs reading fluency this year. They should be reading their book in a bag at least twice a night, if not more! I have been testing students this week and see that over the summer, some of them have been reading slower that last year! Please make sure that you are having them read to you every night!
We are going to have a great year!

Friday, August 21, 2009

Wish List/Orientation

Hi all!
I forgot to pull my screen up to reveal the wish list. These are a few things we could use during the school year.
Renusit pop up air fresheners
Cardstock
Pencil top erasers
Treats for treasure box
hot glue sticks
HP color ink #22
HP black ink #21

I appreciate all of you that came to orientation to meet me and check out our funky new classroom! I can't wait to get started learning on Monday!!

Wednesday, April 22, 2009

Earth Day!




Today was Earth Day! Mrs. Wilson...aka "Luke's mom" came in to read to the class today. It was a beautiful day, so we went outside to listen to her stories! She read Michael Recycle and The Lorax. The kids loved being outside in the fresh air learning how to take care of our world! Mrs. Wilson also got us another plant for our classroom! She says it brings oxygen into the air to help promote better air for breathing! (which we need in our sick classroom right about now) Some lucky student will be able to feed the plants every week! (So Ms. SR doesn't forget) Make sure you ask your child about our new pet as well!!




We had a great time visiting Wolfsons Childrens Hospital in March! We were able to see the ambulance, xrays of a snake and a robot that gave out all the medication in the hospital! We then went to the park for lunch and playtime! The kids had a blast on all the neat equiptment and we had the park to ourselves!

Wednesday, March 18, 2009

Curriculum

What is your child learning? Go to duvalschools.org and follow the steps below to see!

Clicking on the Riverdeep/Curriculum icon listed under the QuickLinks section
Clicking on the “Help Your Kid” menu link on the “Parents” dropdown list
Selecting “Know what my child is learning?” in the “How Do I…” dropdown list

Wednesday, March 4, 2009

Eric Carle





Our Eric Carle author study is going great! The children are really enjoying reading all of his books and responding to them. We are learning how to quickly respond to his books in Reader's Workshop by writing our connections or favorite parts. In Writer's Workshop, we have created a Rubric, which is a way that we "grade" your child's writing. We talked about making sure you begin with a great lead sentence to include the author and title of the book. Then we went on to discuss what we would add in the middle of our writing, which was lots of details, connections and favorite parts. Our ending was to "wrap it up." That means make a good closing for your writing. "Finally" and "At Last" are great ways to tie up a piece of writing. Below are some examples of story boards that we made to retell stories and pieces of writing that we have been doing. I have also included a picture of the Rubric that we, as a class made, for Writing.

Wednesday, February 25, 2009

Coffee Talk

Our Instructional Technology Coach, Mrs. Hotlsman, offers "Tech Coffee Talk" for parents to come who have technology questions in our ever changing world. Here is a link to her blog! Check back for upcoming dates!
http://tech4families.blogspot.com/

Thursday, February 19, 2009



Our February Book of the Month is The Impossible Patriotism Project. It is about a class who has to come up with a patriotic project to share. Caleb can't think of anything to do! He really wants his dad's help, but his dad is overseas in the military. Then he realized his dad can help him! He presented a picture of his father in uniform and told the class "my dad is an example of patriotism."
Such a great book! We then as a class sent the troops an ecard and all made the troops post cards of our own to thank them for what they do!

Wednesday, February 18, 2009




We have recently started our Eric Carle author study! We are very excited to get to know all about him and his books. We are reading and writing about him everyday in Readers and Writers Workshops and we have even commented on his blog! We will be very excited if we get a response from him!

Friday, February 13, 2009



We had such a great time at our Valentine's Party! We decorated cookies, made hats, passed out Valentines and played sight word bingo! A huge thank you to Mrs. Shively for making cookies and helping out with the centers. And a big thank you to Mr. & Mrs. Wilson for reading books to the kids and leading the bingo game. Have a wonderful Valentines Day on Saturday! See everyone on Tuesday!

Wednesday, February 4, 2009




We had so much fun on our 100th day of school! We started the day making 100 day hats and making fruit loop necklaces. We then drew and wrote 100 things. For Math Workshop, we graphed M&M's. The kids really enjoyed this project. We had some very creative homework assignments come in. We had a few 100 day hats, some shirts with buttons and jewels and a really cute 100 gerber daisy bag! Only 80 more days of school until 1st grade! Keep up the good work!

Monday, February 2, 2009

100th Day of School!

Today is our 100th day of school! We have been busy with projects since this morning. I will be updating the blog later with some good pictures! A huge thank you to Mrs. Berndt (Abigale's mom) for donating Fruit Loops and M&M's for our counting projects!

Monday, January 26, 2009

100th day!!

February 2nd is our official 100th day of school! I have plenty of projects planned for that day and was wondering if we could get a couple big bags of M&M's and a couple big bags of fruit loops donated. If you are willing to send these in, please email me or leave a comment! I appreciate all of the help.

Tuesday, January 20, 2009

Blends and Digraphs

A blend is two or three letters that combine together to make one sound. Such as, sk, sl, pl, and tr. A consonant digraph is two consonant letters that combine together to make one sound. Such as, sh, ph, ch and wh. We have been working on these in class for the past couple of weeks. A good game to play at home is to tell your child to find or think of something that starts with the "tr" sound and then set a timer for one minute and see if they can do it! Play this game while you are cooking dinner or getting ready for bed!

Tale of Desperaux











We had a great field trip on January 8th! We went to see "The Tale of Desperaux." Then we went to play at Sunshine State Park where we had a picnic!

Tuesday, January 6, 2009

Relay for Life

Relay for Life is coming to Chets Creek Elementary on May 1, 2009! We are looking for teams to sign up! If you have a work group or just a group of friends that would like to "Walk For The Cure," check out the website below and get signed up! It gives all the information on what the relay is all about. It is one of our ways of giving back to the community in the fight against cancer!

http://main.acsevents.org/site/TR?pg=entry&fr_id=13411
Risk more than others think is safe.
Care more than others think is wise.
Dream more than others think is practical.
Expect more than others think is possible.