Ms. Brink's Buddies

 LOOK WHO'S CALLING! It's Larry the Leprechaun! We were surprised to receive a call from Leprechaun Larry this week! He even left us gifts- pots filled with GOLD COINS! Don't worry...Easton made sure to check all of the gold coins to make sure they weren't chocolate;) The kiddos also found out that I had Leprechaun Larry's phone number! They were surprised when I gave him a call to update him on their behavior at the end of the day! He wanted me to make sure to tell them that he only visits when they have been on their best behavior and when he can see that they are working hard! He even told me he might bring real gold nuggets next week!  Leprechaun Larry is lucky to know such a great class!  Let's see what he leaves us this week!

  H A P P Y   V A L E N T I N E ' S  D A Y   E V E R Y O N E! Thank you parents for all you do for our class! From bringing in donations to spending countless hours helping your student at home, I can not thank you enough! Our week was full of learning, dancing, snacking, and valentine's making! We loved spreading kindness to everyone around us! I am so blessed to call your kiddos my Valentine's!  "We love you parents!" Happy Valentine's Day from your Little Monsters:)

 This week we learned all about the -ap word family! We learned that in order for words to live in the -ap house, the word has to have the last name -ap! Knowing these word families helps us become better readers and writers:) We were given an empty house and had to fill each bed room with an -ap word! After all the bedrooms were full, we went back and added a night light for the -ap words!  H E R E  A R E   S O M E  -AP   W O R D S   W E   K N O W: -cap -tap -rap -map -nap -sap -zap We could go on for days! We also found -ap words in our poem called "On My Lap"! We are so excited to see what word family we learn about next!

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 ...

Today we reviewed how to write our numbers 1-10 and played a matching game with pumpkin ten-frames! Afterwards, we ate yummy pumpkin pie! We had so much fun!☺