Valentine's Day

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!  We celebrated Valentine's Day yesterday (Thursday) because we have conferences today.  All of the kids made awesome boxes to put their valentines in.  Here they are:

Ella

Emily

Sydney

MaKaylah

Gabriel

Montana

My creation

Justin

Cole

Every school day in February we wrote 1 compliment, nice thing, warm fuzzy for a different classmate.  Once they were written we taped them to the desks.  Every student was very good at giving compliments and saying nice things about their friends. 

My sweeties made beautiful and delicious looking cup cakes for the February bulletin board.

The art project for the hallway was really fun to make.  I dipped bouncy balls in red, pink, and purple paint.  Then we placed a white heart inside a box lid and rolled the bouncy balls around.  The kids really enjoyed doing this hands on art project.

We finished up the Valentine's Day project with the National Honor Society yesterday too.  Our high school buddies came and got us and we rode the bus together to the Nursing Home.  There we hand delivered the valentines that we made and sang "You Are My Sunshine" for them.  It was awesome!  I got tears in my eyes watching how excited and happy we made the residents.  I am very proud of our school.

We all wore red for Caring

Montana was my buddy on the bus :)

Happy Valentine's Day everyone!!

~Ms. Anglin

Phil Baker!

Phil Baker came to school last week and we had a blast!  Grades PK-5 gathered in the gym and we danced, and danced and danced!  Here are some pictures of the fun we had. PS- Please excuse the poor image quality- we were just grooving too fast to get good pictures.

Phil Baker

Ella's Dance

Emily's Dance

Gabriel's Dance

Justin's Dance

MaKaylah's Dance

Montana's Dance

Sydney's Dance

Cole's Dance

Here is another of Phil Baker singing with the 1st graders close up.

This is a video created by Mrs. Vander Vorst of our fun day.  It is so cool to watch! Click the link to go to vimeo Phil Baker Video

We had such a great time!  We love assemblies like this :)

~Ms. Anglin

100th Day!

We celebrated the 100th day of school on Thursday.  We all dressed up like how we think we will look when we are 100 years old.  There were A LOT of old people in the elementary that day!

Yes, even the teachers joined in!

In our class, we made 100th day booklets.  We drew 10 hearts, 10 stars, 10 snakes, 10 peace signs, 10, happy faces, 10 hats, 10 cherries, 10 eyeballs, 10 snowflakes, and 10 suns- that equaled 100 drawings!  I hid 100 Hershey Kisses around the room and had everyone help find them.  They were numbered on the bottom and then they had to be put in the right spot on the 100 chart.  There are still 2 kisses missing, I seem to lose a couple every year for about a month :)

We also made glasses to celebrate.  We took pictures inside a frame that say "It's time to party, I'm a 100 day old smarty".  

Kindergarten, 1st and 2nd grades are the classes that celebrate the 100th day of school in the best style!  We get together in the gym and do fun activities together.  This year we balanced on 1 foot for 100 seconds, took turns bouncing a ball 100 times, rested for 100 seconds, clapped 100 times, listened to a story about the 100th day of school, and walked 100 steps around the gym.  We had so much fun together!

I'd better get going, this 100 year old lady is tired!

~Ms. Anglin

Whole School Project

The National Honor Society is doing a whole school project for their community work.  We had them tie in their project with our last 2 character traits for Character Counts- caring and citizenship.  Here we are listening and learning what it means to be caring and a good citizen.

Each high school student is partnered with an elementary student.  Together they created a valentine for a resident at the nursing home.  Here are some pictures of us with our buddies.

Justin and Bailey

Emily and Kailey

Gabriel and Cory

MaKaylah and Alexis

Cole and Austin

Sydney and Allie

Ella and Sam

After our valentine's were made the 1st graders practiced their reading with the high schoolers.  Then the older kids got to read to us.  This might have been our favorite part!

Next week, we are all loading up the buses and heading to the nursing home.  There the partners will hand deliver their valentines and sing a song for the residents.  

~Ms. Anglin

Winter Recap

I have been so bad at updating regularly!  Here is a look back at the past month at school!

In January, our Character Counts trait that we learned about was fairness.  We know being fair means being honest, taking turns, and doing what is right for everyone.  Here are the students that wore orange that day.

We have been doing more partner reading during reading class lately.  It is helping us build skills we need such as helpfulness and teamwork.  Here we are reading to each other.

In math we just finished a chapter on shapes.  We talked about 2 dimensional shapes, 3 dimensional shapes, vertices, faces, and sides.  To decorate our bulletin board we made penguins out of 2 dimensional shapes.  We have an oval, a couple rectangles, a triangle, an upside down heart, a square, a diamond, and a circle.

Now we have been learning about money and coins.  We practice counting money very hard!  I have these reminders up on the board so students can look back if they forget anything about the different coins we have learned about.

Getting back to the penguins- after making the shape penguin bulletin board, we read a Weekly Reader about penguin cams.  I then went online and looks for some live penguin cams for us to keep an eye on.  I found different ones at aquariums around the country.  We earned Penguin Cam time if we had good behavior!  Here is the class working on math papers while watching the cams.

In science we learned about space and created some constellations.  The kids drew a picture of something then added stars to make it look like the stars were connected.  They were all so good :)

Lastly, I read to the class "Snowmen at Night" and we created an art and writing project for the hallway.  The students had to start with "If I were a snowman at night I would..." they were all very creative.  Some went skiing and ice skating, some drank hot chocolate and 1 even went shopping!

I hope your winter is not treating you too unkindly!  Its been pretty frigid here- I hope Spring comes sooner than expected!

~Ms. Anglin