My Sincere Appreciation and Gratitude

Once again I have to offer up BIG THANKS to all the parents that ordered from the October Scholastic Book Clubs.  We earned many points towards FREE books.  We added to our classroom library this month some all-time favorities  No David, David Goes to School, and David Gets in Trouble all written by David Shannon.  In addition we added Biscuit and the Lost Teddy Bear  by Alyssa Capucilli. 


This week was also our Parent Teacher Conferences.  I want to give huge thank you's to all parents who were able to make it in to discuss their child's education.  Our class reached the goal of 100% participation in conferences.  Hopefully while here you were able to take a look at the first grade habitats that we had displaying in our hallway.  The students worked hard on these at home {with your help I'm sure} and they were all so very proud of their work.  The students in our class presented their project with their classmates and discussed the things they learned about their habitats.  We then displayed them in the hall to share with all of our parents and families. Your child's habitat project will come home this Friday, November 2nd.  In addition, I hope you saw all our other work that we had displayed in the hallway as well.  If not, take a look at some of the pictures below {they show some of the things we have displayed in our first grade hallway}.

I also want to say another thank you to Scholastics.  This weekend they had a box sale for employees and teachers.  I was so blessed to have the opportunity to attend this box sale.  Let me share my success.  For $18.31 I got the following:  202 books, 1 teacher resource book {Teaching with Eric Carle books}, 2 big books, 17 books on cds {for our Listen to Reading Station}, and 2 packages of reading fingers {for one on one correspondence}.  Wow!  What a deal....right?!!!  I can't thank Scholastics enough for all they do for teachers, parents, and children.  This is not the first box sale I've been to.  Every box sale I attend I come away with many treasures.  They don't have a box sale regularly.  In fact they do not have one every year.  But, when they do I try my best to attend so I can get more books for our classroom.  I spent Sunday afternoon leveling the books I did get so that I could place them in our library for Read to Self.  Of course not every book is leveled in my library.  Many of the books I received will go into the interest portion of our classroom library.  I plan on introducing this portion of our library this week.  I'm sure the kids will be excited about that as it will open up a whole new world of books for them. 

Splat the Cat Literacy Craftivity

We wrote an opinion piece on the story Scaredy Cat Splat!

The creation of Splat the Cat

Our Skeleton System made of Q-tips

One of the Habitat Diaromas

We read many poems and books about Pumpkins.

Our Writing Goal Assessment Line.  The sticky notes indicate the students writing goals.

A Wetland Habitat Diaroma.

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 I am also happy to announce that I finally have my new Spiderlific Unit on TpT.  If you are interested check out my shop.  Here is a preview of the new unit.  I know it is a little late, but maybe some of you can use it next year.  I know I will!