Spring Break

This week is Spring Break! Enjoy the week off and relax! Feel free to leave some comments here or on the class Facebook to tell me what fun things you are up to! See all the kids back at school on Monday!

Spring Break

This week is Spring Break! Enjoy the week off and relax! Feel free to leave some comments here or on the class Facebook to tell me what fun things you are up to! See all the kids back at school on Monday!

Kid Blogs

Last week I introduced the kids to the website kidblog. I showed them all this blog and talked about how a blog is sort of like an online journal. I set up each child in the room with their own blog. I like this site a lot for a few reasons. One, there are no ads!! Second, it is completely monitored and controlled by me. Third, it is only accessible through a password. I will be sending home the parent login after spring break. Or you can login as the parent here and ask your child for the password :) They were so excited to see their own work online as well as their classmates! Feel free to have your child add to their blog over spring break!

Kid Blogs

Last week I introduced the kids to the website kidblog. I showed them all this blog and talked about how a blog is sort of like an online journal. I set up each child in the room with their own blog. I like this site a lot for a few reasons. One, there are no ads!! Second, it is completely monitored and controlled by me. Third, it is only accessible through a password. I will be sending home the parent login after spring break. Or you can login as the parent here and ask your child for the password :) They were so excited to see their own work online as well as their classmates! Feel free to have your child add to their blog over spring break!

Author Visit

Last Thursday Chapel Glen was treated to a special guest for all the kids in kindergarten, first, and second grade. Susan Eddy, a clay illustrator, came to speak to the children. She shared her book, Papa Fish's Lullaby, and showed some of her work. She talked about how she made the clay illustrations for each page and she even showed the kids to of her actual pages from the book. After her presentation, all the kids received their own clay kits to make an ocean scene from clay.

Author Visit

Last Thursday Chapel Glen was treated to a special guest for all the kids in kindergarten, first, and second grade. Susan Eddy, a clay illustrator, came to speak to the children. She shared her book, Papa Fish's Lullaby, and showed some of her work. She talked about how she made the clay illustrations for each page and she even showed the kids to of her actual pages from the book. After her presentation, all the kids received their own clay kits to make an ocean scene from clay.

Measure Around the Room

For the last two weeks we have been working on measurement. We started off measuring with nonstandard units like paper clips and unifix cubes. Then we learned about the rules and how it has inches and centimeters. We also learned where to start measuring and how to round up or down an inch. Then we started measuring in inches and centimeters! The first day we started measuring with standard units, the kids had a list of measurements to find around the classroom. Here they are on their hunt:

Measure Around the Room

For the last two weeks we have been working on measurement. We started off measuring with nonstandard units like paper clips and unifix cubes. Then we learned about the rules and how it has inches and centimeters. We also learned where to start measuring and how to round up or down an inch. Then we started measuring in inches and centimeters! The first day we started measuring with standard units, the kids had a list of measurements to find around the classroom. Here they are on their hunt:

Yikes!

The class website MrsReedsVirtualClassroom is currently down! I hope to have it back up in the next couple days! If there is anything you need, check the blog or Facebook page! If you cannot find what you are looking for, email me or give me a call :)

**Update 3/22/11**

The website is up and running like normal! Sorry!

Yikes!

The class website MrsReedsVirtualClassroom is currently down! I hope to have it back up in the next couple days! If there is anything you need, check the blog or Facebook page! If you cannot find what you are looking for, email me or give me a call :)

**Update 3/22/11**

The website is up and running like normal! Sorry!

Teaching with Skype

On Monday, Mrs. Deaton's class and our class were so lucky to have a special visitor through Skype. If you don't know what Skype is, you check out their website. In a quick sentence, Skype is making phone calls through the internet but using video additionally! We had an art teacher, who is also my mom :) teach the kids how to make origami cats and dogs. Ms. Gatling lives in California and teaches at California State in Long Beach. She teaches students that are going to college to become art teachers. The kids LOVED their first Skype lesson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldHUr_1MtY

Teaching with Skype

On Monday, Mrs. Deaton's class and our class were so lucky to have a special visitor through Skype. If you don't know what Skype is, you check out their website. In a quick sentence, Skype is making phone calls through the internet but using video additionally! We had an art teacher, who is also my mom :) teach the kids how to make origami cats and dogs. Ms. Gatling lives in California and teaches at California State in Long Beach. She teaches students that are going to college to become art teachers. The kids LOVED their first Skype lesson!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oldHUr_1MtY

Student Treasures!

There is a book publishing company called Student Teasures. For the last three years I have participated in this program. For participate, you must have your students write and illustrate a book. For first grade, I have the students create one class book that each child has one page in. This year the title will be Fruits and Vegetables A to Z. It was nice to incorporate our writing and learning with the nutrition speaker that was visiting us.

Well, Mrs Deaton's class actually is writing their own fruit and vegetable book as well. So we decided that we wanted our students to try some of the fruits and veggies that most children have not tried (or even Mrs. Reed!!). So I went to the store and found several of the fruits and veggies that we were writing about. Check out some of the videos below to see what the kids liked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn0ex3j0KFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJI4oIXLMV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j1R0vpFQA

Student Treasures!

There is a book publishing company called Student Teasures. For the last three years I have participated in this program. For participate, you must have your students write and illustrate a book. For first grade, I have the students create one class book that each child has one page in. This year the title will be Fruits and Vegetables A to Z. It was nice to incorporate our writing and learning with the nutrition speaker that was visiting us.

Well, Mrs Deaton's class actually is writing their own fruit and vegetable book as well. So we decided that we wanted our students to try some of the fruits and veggies that most children have not tried (or even Mrs. Reed!!). So I went to the store and found several of the fruits and veggies that we were writing about. Check out some of the videos below to see what the kids liked.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fn0ex3j0KFI
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YJI4oIXLMV8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83j1R0vpFQA