Ms. Brink's Buddies

H A P P Y   1 0 0 T H   D A Y   OF   S C H O O L !  Can you believe that we have been in school for 100 days?! I couldn't be more proud to celebrate this day with your kiddos. We have grown, laughed, and learned so much in 100 days and we are excited to see what we learn next!  Our day was full of crafts, learning, and celebrating! We even had a glow dance party to dance for 100 seconds! Oh what fun it was!  Your kiddos now know:  *All their letters and sounds *2D & 3D Shapes (names and characteristics) *30 sight words *How to count to 100 *HOW TO READ  *HOW TO WRITE STORIES  ...and so much more! What an accomplishment! You should be so proud, I know I am! Time to celebrate the next 80!:)

Student writes "All About Church" To introduce our Narrative Writing Unit , we started our All About Books!  As a class, we talked about things we all knew about. As a rule of thumb, we decided that to really know about something, you must know 3 whole facts about it! The students had so much fun telling me what they knew about: princesses, Mario Kart, Lego Mania, and so much more!  To practice, we made a class book on The Sun.  We knew that:  1. The sun is hot.  2. The sun is in the sky.  3. The sun is yellow.  Look at that! We knew all about the sun!  After writing two books as a class, the students got to go write books about anything they choose! They just had to make sure they knew 3 facts about it before they wrote it! We also talked about how our pictures have to match our sentences! I didn't know we had so many Picassos in the class:)   We will continue this unit for another week, so I encourage you to continue to talk with your ...