100 Days of School!

I just thought I'd share some of the fun activities we did on this landmark day!

Reading for 100 Minutes

(Well, really 5 groups reading for 20 minutes each! :) )

We Made 100 Day Hats to Celebrate the Landmark!

We Counted By 100 All the Way to 2,000!

We Moved on Up in Our Place Value Chart!!

I Can Spell 100 Words

Our Fun 100th Day Snack!!

10 groups of 10 = 100

Searching for the 100 Missing Hershey Kisses

(We are still on the look-out for 2 of them!)

Race to 100 on the 100 Chart!

Answering Equations about 100

(This is tough, but not too tough thanks to the 100 chart and our practice counting by 10 up and down different columns!)

What Would You Buy for $100.00?

My 100 yr old Portrait!

"Pop! Pop!" Who Knew Making "Popcorn" Was So Much Fun...

"Hey, did you know that harpee eagles prey on sloths or that the sloth is the slowest moving creature on Earth?"
"Wow!! I just learned that an eel's jaw can crush bones! Some even have poisonous flesh!"
"I didn't know that winter lasts six months in the Arctic!"
"I can't believe that EACH of T-Rex's teeth were the size of a steak knife! Can you imagine 1,000 of those chomping down on you?"

Today we had tons of fun reading and learning! We have been learning about nonfiction in reading and now we are beginning the report writing process in writer's workshop. So, today we took some pre-steps to researching- recognizing when we learn something new when we read! We learned so many new things today as we partner read and got to share some really cool "popcorn" we made! No, we didn't really make popcorn, but our brains did. See, when we read AND think our brain kind of wakes up. It might start out slow as it is warming up, but soon as I think and think and think and read and read and read the "popcorn" just takes over! Pop.......... pop.........pop......pop...pop..pop.pop.pop.pop.pop.poppopopopopop!!! All this "popcorn" is really all the new ideas I'm having and connections that I'm making!
Reading to learn is a lot of fun!

To encourage your child to read even more nonfiction (and expose them to massive amount of vocabulary!) try taking them to the library to answer questions that they've always wondered about, get a subscription to a child's nonfiction magazine like Sports Illustrated for Kids or Ranger Rick. Highlights Magazine also has nonfiction and fiction articles. You can also read excerpts of magazines, the newspaper, and the Internet to them on topics that interests you both or to learn more about a topic that might have come up in conversation! Exposure to more and more nonfiction is a powerful tool to learning in so many ways!

Check out some of our strategy work as we used mini sticky-notes with an exclamation mark to show where we learned something new!

These are the Third Nine-Weeks sight words. Remember that your child is expected to know these words "on sight" by the end of the nine-weeks. Please help by reviewing these words or using websites like those listed here to help reinforce them:  hangman  or Spelling City. You must enter the words in on spelling city for them.

morning	again	about
found	both	because
shout	gone	draw
climb	or	happy
cow	want	teacher
table	turn	part
now	hard	tiny
door	afraid	always
there	any	eight
through	bear	arms
horse	follow	seven
wall	most	warm
been	tall	ready
fat	water	body
forest	idea	carry
goes	old	kind
hungry	piece	put
soon	shoe	saw
evening	start	butter
near	under	were
	very	work
	wear	person
	build