Friday, March 25

Wow! Today is the end of 3rd quarter. Report cards will be coming home to you next Tuesday. Also, parent-teacher conferences are next Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, so primary students (K-3) will be dismissed at noon. They will be eating lunch at school, so please send a cold lunch or have your child eat hot lunch as usual. This is different than a typical half-day, so please be aware of the change.

Reading: "What Hatches?", new coin poems, "The Rain Came Down"
"in" family: brainstorm "in" words (win, spin, shin, grin) and then make the "in" slider
Centers and assessments
Math: coins

Enjoy your weekend,
Miss Kimpton

Thursday, March 24

Morning Meeting: /i/ short i sound, identify words with an /i/ sound and fill in the missing blank
Reading: Read "It's Spring", write a list of signs of Spring, "What Hatches?"
Math: identify different coins, sort by different attributes
Centers and assessing

Enjoy your evening,
Miss Kimpton

Wednesday, March 23

We have some missing items in our classroom. If they turn up at your home, can you send them back to school? We are missing a brand new gray Laurel Police Department pencil and two magnetic charms for a bracelet. Thank you!

Morning Meeting: read "Incredible I", greeting
Math: counting nickels and pennies, reading coin poems
Reading: "The Alphabet Tree" by Leo Lionni
Reading Buddies: Math-fractions/parts of a whole
Centers and assessments

Enjoy your evening,
Miss Kimpton

Tuesday, March 22

Brrr! Today was a great reminder that Spring in Montana can be like Winter, so please send your children with warm coats, hats, and gloves. We will go outside in all conditions unless it is below zero degrees or raining.

Morning Meeting: song "Rise and Shine", Greeting with first, middle, and last names (and break down/count syllables)
Centers and assessment
Reading: "It's Spring"
Math: Drawing pictures to solve problems, coins (recognizing coins and values)
Writer's Workshop: use Word Wall words in writing, create sentences, draw quicksketch to organize thoughts

Stay dry!
Miss Kimpton

Monday, March 21

Happy Spring!

Morning Meeting: greeting (share one memorable thing from this weekend), sharing
P.E. with Mrs. Trollope
Reading: "Where Did You Get Your Moccasins?", money poems in poetry folders
Math: Sorting coins, Showing different amounts of money using the coins (pennies and nickels)
Centers and assessments

Miss Kimpton

Our Science Project!

Here are a few photos from our science project in action:

Thursday and Friday, March 17 and 18

We were so busy preparing our Science Project that I didn't have time to post a summary of our day from Thursday, so here is a combination of both of our days:
Morning Meeting: songs: "Hello Around the World", "Lettercise", greet each other
Science: experiment with the "phones" to see which works the best, record your answer on the graph, complete the writing for the graph
Math: coins
Reading: Two Pairs of Shoes, discuss different languages as the class listens to the story (story of a Cree girl who gets different kinds of shoes: black patent leather shoes and moccasins) and introduce the Western Heritage website that has translations for words in Crow and Northern Cheyenne, read and act out "Pig and the Big Rig"
Centers and assessing for report cards

Yesterday, we were able to listen to two guests during an assembly. The students learned the history of St. Patrick's Day, and they also were able to experience the bagpipes as one of our guests played them. We all even stood up to try riverdancing! It was quite enjoyable. Stay tuned for pictures! We also visited Mrs. Schaeffer's 2nd grade classroom to see their leprechaun traps.

If you had a chance to visit our Science Fair today, thank you so much for coming! The kids worked very hard on their project. If you did not, I will post photos on the blog for you to see!

Have a lovely weekend,
Miss Kimpton