Hello, Again

Time is going quickly.  It seems like I was just having trick or treaters at my door and now Winter Break will be here in 2 weeks!  I realized that some weeks, I really don't have to much to tell you so I won't be blogging.  Be assured we are always doing some great learning but some weeks are lacking in what we used to call "Kodak moments."  So here are some highlights from the last few weeks:

We had a great Veteran's Day ceremony on November 11th.  It's always a touching occasion at CCE to see the children so proud of their relatives who have served our country.  Pictured are Juliana and her daddy who participated in the ceremony.  I appologize that I didn't get pictures of the other students who had a visiting vereran.

The pictures below are of the chidlren playing "Roll-a-Turkey", a fun math game in which they roll 2 dice add the numbers and look at the chart to see which part of the turkey they should draw.  Whoever has drawn the whole turkey first wins.

 The pictures below are of the children in cooperative learning groups for Social Studies.  They had slips of paper that had a sentence like: "The mom is talking on the telephone."  And they have to decide if they should place the sentence on the sheet that says Past, Present or Both. 

Below are the pictures of the All Star Fun Run.  I didn't get very many because I was asked to assist in marking laps on the children's shirts.

(sorry about the sideways pictures, I forgot to edit before I got ready to post)

Some very cute Pilgrims and Native Americans showed up to our feast. I am thankful for my sweet class!

With all of the fun holiday events coming up, I'm sure I'll be posting again very soon!

From Round-up to Rocks

We started last week with a fun Round-Up.  For those of you who are not familiar with Round-Up, it's just our school's name for a whole school assembly that we have on the last Monday of the month.  We usually have a grade level performing or a group like our Colt Chorale performing.  And on Halloween night the cutest little first grade pumpkins were ringing my doorbell...

Last week in Math, we began Unit 3 which is on word problems, addition and subtraction, counting sets of objects, and finding multiple combinations of a number.  In Science, we continued our study of rocks.  In Social Studies we emphasized the character trait, responsibility by learining about Clara Barton and Eleanor Roosevelt.  We did a lesson that integrated math and science called "Spinning Ghosts." The students had to predict which paper ghost would spin and we graphed their predictions.  Then they got to make a spinning ghost of their own and we learned how the air pushing against the arms forced our ghosts to spin.

On a more personal note, I took a tumble of my own.  I tripped while walking to my car and dislocated a couple of fingers and banged myself up a bit.  I just thought I'd let you know in case you heard anything from your child. I missed half of today and I will miss half of next Monday to go to the hand doctor.  Today's sub told me that the kids did a great job!

The Vivace singers from CHS sang The Star Spangled Banner and performed Thriller at Round-Up

Amav was chosen to participate in the Bat Fact Game at Round-Up

 Testing our spinning ghosts...

Dot Addition..We tried to find combinations of dot cards that would add up to a certain number.  Thhen we recorded our combinations on paper.

After reading Everybody Needs a Rock, we brought rocks from home. We washed them and sorted them by attributes in table groups.  We then filled out a chart about our rocks telling about their color, luster, hardness and what made our rocks special.